#CHOPPER 2 WCBS FULL#
Between the time experimental transmissions began in 1935 and the beginning of commercial television service in 1941, picture definition increased from 343 to 441 lines, and finally (in 1941) to the 525-line standard used for analog television from the start of full commercial service until the end of analog broadcasts in mid-2009.
Technical standards for television broadcasting were in flux as well. Viewership of early NBC broadcasts was tightly restricted to those authorized by the company, whose installed set base eventually reached about 200. The viewing room often hosted visiting organizations or corporate guests, who saw a live program produced in the studios many floors below.Įddie Albert and Grace Brandt apply makeup for the first television broadcast of a play (November 1936). In mid-1936, small-scale, irregularly scheduled programming began to air to an audience of some 75 receivers in the homes of high-level RCA staff, and a dozen or so sets in a closed circuit viewing room in 52nd-floor offices of the RCA Building. In 1935, the all-electronic CRT system was authorized as a "field test" project and NBC converted a radio studio in the RCA Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center for television use. The station left the air sometime in 1933 as RCA turned its attention to all-electronic cathode-ray tube (CRT) television research at its Camden, New Jersey facility, under the leadership of Dr. The doll remained on the turntable for nearly a decade as RCA fine-tuned the picture's definition, and converted to electronic television. It was placed on a rotating phonograph turntable and televised for about two hours each day. The doll was chosen for its tonal contrast and its ability to withstand the intense lights needed in early television. In 1928, Felix the Cat was one of the first images ever broadcast by television when RCA chose a papier-mâché (later Bakelite) Felix doll for an experimental broadcast on W2XBS. In 1929, W2XBS upgraded its transmitter and broadcast facilities to handle transmissions of sixty vertical lines at twenty frames per second, on the frequencies of 2.75 to 2.85 MHz.
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The station originally broadcast on the frequencies of 2.0 to 2.1 MHz. GE was the parent company of both RCA and NBC, and technical research was done at the Schenectady plant. The call letters W2XBS meant W2XB-south, with W2XB being the call letters of the first experimental station, started a few months earlier at General Electric's (GE) main factory in Schenectady, New York, which evolved into today's WRGB. Later it was used mostly for reception and interference tests. Originally a test bed for the experimental RCA Photophone theater television system, W2XBS used the low-definition mechanical television scanning system. What is now WNBC traces its history to experimental station W2XBS, founded by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA, a co-founder of the National Broadcasting Company), in 1928, just two years after NBC was founded as the first nationwide radio network. And I also don't like the "CBS Mornings" title - it sounds more like the way someone would refer to a daypart (CBS Daytime, CBS Primetime, CBS Mornings) and not a newscast title.The Felix the Cat doll used by NBC in early television experiments. Rant time: I wish the station could change the branding all at once and not do this very slow rollout, if that's indeed what this is.
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The station has used a "CBS 2 Mornings" (different font, no "News") graphic on the monitor array for months to more closely align with the network's "CBS Mornings" branding, but the newscast title has never been officially renamed. Both times the announcer said "CBS 2 News This Morning," which is the current title of the newscast (and has been since around 2001). But less than a half hour earlier, the version of the promo that has been airing for months had the "CBS 2 News This Morning" end page. I noticed a newer (new? I will admit I don't watch as closely as I used to) morning promo - the one with the Chris, Mary and Elise talking to the camera in the studio - just aired a few minutes ago, using a "CBS 2 News Mornings" logo at the end.
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