It's hard to imagine that television is so old now, WCBS-TV and WNBC both got their licenses 83 years ago. Not to favor either CBS or NBC, the FCC licensed both stations on the same day. I think in our minds, television came many decades after radio. But it was sooner than that.
Television experiments began less than a decade after radio stations were officially signing on. General Electric began experimenting with television in 1928 on what today is WRGB 6 Schenectady. Not long after, NBC began doing the same with what today is WNBC 4 New York. A few years ago, we began celebrating radio stations like KDKA and WWJ hitting 100 years old. Now every month, another big AM station commemorates its 100 years on the air.
But we will soon begin seeing the 100th anniversary of experimental television at WRGB and WNBC.
Television experiments began less than a decade after radio stations were officially signing on. General Electric began experimenting with television in 1928 on what today is WRGB 6 Schenectady. Not long after, NBC began doing the same with what today is WNBC 4 New York. A few years ago, we began celebrating radio stations like KDKA and WWJ hitting 100 years old. Now every month, another big AM station commemorates its 100 years on the air.
But we will soon begin seeing the 100th anniversary of experimental television at WRGB and WNBC.
