March 10 – The
Metropolitan Opera broadcast for the first time from NBC studios at
Rockefeller Center an abridged performance of the first act of Pagliacci, along with excerpts from four other operas.
March 15 –
RCA reduces the price of television sets.
May 21 –
Bell Telephone Laboratories transmits a 441-line video signal, with a bandwidth of 2.7 MHz, by coaxial cable from New York to Philadelphia and back.
August 1 –
W2XBS goes out of commission from 1 August 1940 until the 27th of October 1940 while the transmitter is adjusted from 441-line picture to 525-line picture. [2][3]
September 3 –
CBS resumes its television transmissions with the first demonstration of high definition color TV, by W2XAB, transmitting from the
Chrysler Building.
November 5 - First televised Presidential election coverage is carried by
W2XBS (
NBC) and
W2XWV (
DuMont).
Debuts
February 3 - Art for Your Sake, an art discussion program hosted by Dr. Bernard Myers, debuts on
W2XBS (NBC) (1940).[4]
March 10 – The
Metropolitan Opera broadcast for the first time from NBC studios at
Rockefeller Center an abridged performance of the first act of Pagliacci, along with excerpts from four other operas.
March 15 –
RCA reduces the price of television sets.
May 21 –
Bell Telephone Laboratories transmits a 441-line video signal, with a bandwidth of 2.7 MHz, by coaxial cable from New York to Philadelphia and back.
August 1 –
W2XBS goes out of commission from 1 August 1940 until the 27th of October 1940 while the transmitter is adjusted from 441-line picture to 525-line picture. [2][3]
September 3 –
CBS resumes its television transmissions with the first demonstration of high definition color TV, by W2XAB, transmitting from the
Chrysler Building.
November 5 - First televised Presidential election coverage is carried by
W2XBS (
NBC) and
W2XWV (
DuMont).
Debuts
February 3 - Art for Your Sake, an art discussion program hosted by Dr. Bernard Myers, debuts on
W2XBS (NBC) (1940).[4]