Word: telecast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thirteen other U. S. broadcasting stations telecast periodically. These experimentations are chiefly technical. The material telecast includes static charts, films, occasional live programs...
Londoners have television in their homes, pubs and clubs. France has constructed an Eiffel Tower transmitter, expects to telecast to the public within a few months. Germans have television-equipped telephone service between Berlin and Leipzig, can ring up faces as well as voices. But in the U. S., where the radio industry is private and the broadcasters have to play the game with their own chips, caution has kept television in the laboratory experimental stage...
...makes an experimental receiving set which projects into a slanting mirror a greenish, almost lineless image 7½ in. tall by 10 in. wide. And NBC has a transmitter on top of Manhattan's Empire State Building which has telecast more than 40 miles. However, no big U. S. radio group wants to get into commercial television until the purchaser may be assured that his set will not be obsolescent for a reasonable period of time, and until television shows can command fuller attention than sound radio now gets. Well aware that the technical side of television presents...