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The year 1931 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1931. Events - August At the Berlin Radio Show, Manfred von Ardenne gives the world's first public demonstration of a television system using a cathode-ray tube for both transmission and reception. Ardenne never develops a camera tube, using the CRT instead as a flying-spot scanner to scan slides and film.[1]
- October 9 Canada's first television station, VE9EC, begins broadcasting in Montreal, Quebec. VE9EC was owned jointly by radio station CKAC and the newspaper La Presse.[2]
- October 30 NBC installs a television transmitter on top of the Empire State Building.
- November 1 Television images are transmitted from JOAK radio station in Tokyo, Japan by Professors Kenjiro Takayagani and Tomomasa Nakashima. The still images comprise 80 lines at 20 frames per second.
- December 22 NBC begins broadcasting experimental test transmissions from the Empire State Building transmitter.
- December 23 Don Lee Broadcasting signs on W6XAO (later KTSL) from Los Angeles with low-definition electromechanical television, broadcasting one hour of film footage, six days per week.
Debuts Television shows Births - January 13 Charles Nelson Reilly, actor, game show panelist (died 2007)
- January 14 -[Himanshu Dev],engineer
- January 17 James Earl Jones, actor
- January 19 Robert MacNeil, news reporter
- February 13 Geoff Edwards, game show host
- March 11 Rupert Murdoch, media mogul
- March 22 William Shatner, actor
- March 26 Leonard Nimoy, actor
- March 27 David Janssen, actor (died 1980)
- April 6 Ivan Dixon, actor (died 2008)
- April 26 Bernie Brillstein, agent, producer (died 2008)
- May 23 Barbara Barrie, actress
- June 8 Dana Wynter, actress
- June 14 Marla Gibbs, actress
- June 20 Martin Landau, actor
- July 6 Della Reese, actress, singer
- July 8 Roone Arledge, producer (died 2002)
- July 27 Jerry Van Dyke, actor
- July 28 Darryl Hickman, actor
- August 25 Regis Philbin, talk show host
- September 4 Mitzi Gaynor, singer, actress
- September 10 Philip Baker Hall, actor
- September 13 Barbara Bain, actress
- September 21 Larry Hagman, actor
- September 30 Angie Dickinson, actress
- October 31 Dan Rather, news reporter
- November 8 Morley Safer, news reporter
- November 12 Dick Clair, writer (died 1988)
- December 3 Jaye P. Morgan, game show panelist
- December 11 Rita Moreno, actress
- December 23 Ronnie Schell, comedian
- December 28 Martin Milner, actor
References - ↑ Albert Abramson, Zworykin: Pioneer of Television, University of Illinois Press, 1995, p. 111.
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