1927 in television - Definition and Overview

See also: 1926 in television, other events of 1927, 1928 in television and the list of 'years in television'.

Events

• January 1 - The British Broadcasting Company becomes the British Broadcasting Corporation.
• April 7 - Bell Telephone Company transmits an image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover 200 miles over telephone lines which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television
• May - Philo Farnsworth transmits the first experimental electronic television pictures
• May 23 - The first demonstration of television before a large audience. Nearly 600 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers view the demonstration at the Bell Telephone Building in New York City.
• September 7 - The Royal Television Society is founded in the UK, although at this time it is known simply as 'The Television Society', not gaining its Royal patronage until 1966.
• September - John Logie Baird demonstrates the first ever system for recording television. His Phonovision video disc records 30-line television pictures and sound on conventional 78rpm gramophone records.
• Baird transmits a television signal from London to Glasgow over a telephone line.

• The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as CBS) is formed

Births

• January 17 - Eartha Kitt, actress, singer
• February 15 - Harvey Korman, actor, comedian

Deaths