TV Show Information and Trivia Questions

This section covers television trivia question along with the history of TV. The first regularly scheduled television service in the United States began on July 2, 1928. Hugo Gernsback’s New York City radio station began a regular, if limited, schedule of live television broadcasts on August 14, 1928, using 48-line images. Working with only one transmitter, the station alternated radio broadcasts with silent television images of the station’s call sign, faces in motion, and wind-up toys in motion. A trivia answer might include “General Electric’s experimental station in Schenectady, New York, on the air sporadically since January 13, 1928, was able to broadcast reflected-light, 48-line images via shortwave as far as Los Angeles, and by September was making four television broadcasts weekly”. The Queen’s Messenger, a one-act play broadcast on September 11, 1928, was the world’s first live drama on television.