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The first ever television broadcast to the public began in 1929 in London, England when the BBC started their television service.

The US were some years behind. Although Philo Farnsworth had demonstrated his electro-mechanical television in 1927 and his fully electronic version in 1929, starting public broadcasts was not easy. For 10 years, RCA were locked in legal battles over patents on the television system that Farnsworth had produced. It was only when those legal issues had been resolved that RCA could begin their public broadcasts in 1939.

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The first regular T.V. broadcast was in 1920 - Is NOT correct as it was not inveneted till 1925 and then it was in Britain - not the US.

TV was invented by the British engineer - John Logie Baird and the first broadcast, anywhere in the world, was by him in 1925. The BBC started braodcasting TV in 1929 in the U.K.

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The first regular commercial television broadcast in the US was by RCA in 1939. This was ten years after Philo Farnsworth has demonstrated fully electronic television in America. Regular broadcasts may have started sooner but progress was slowed by legal battles over the patents for the technology.

It was also ten years after the BBC in London England began their public broadcasts using the system developed by John Logie Baird and demonstrated in 1925 for the first time.

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The first U.S. broadcasts don't have a specific time and date that were announced. However, they did do experimental broadcasts of people talking and testing equipment before officially beginning networks.

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Philo Farnsworth was one of the pioneers of television in the US. Although he wasn't the first person to demonstrate television (that was achieved by John Logie Baird in 1925), he was the first to demonstrate a fully electronic system with no moving parts in 1929.

There were various experimental television transmissions over the following ten years but it was in 1939 when RCA began commercial public broadcasts in the US. RCA used a system that was based on Farnsworth's systems shown off in 1929.

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the first 75 years of television history can be found at www.tvhistory.tv this website shows that television first broadcast in the usa was in 1928.

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The first regularly scheduled television service in the United States began on July 2, 1928.

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