You Can't Get Much More "Retro" Than This

[Stanislav]

The Early Television Foundation website just posted some scans of TV program schedules from 1939 and 1941! Very interesting.http://www.earlytelevision.org/1939_schedule.html

 

[oldschooler1]

Did anyone notice the RCA and NBC logos on the fold? How they put the letters over an eye?! Shades of the CBS logo ten years later! Coool!

 

[FreddyE1977]

cool....I am guessing that the Rangers-Bruins hockey game on the evening ofSunday, Dec. 7, 1941 did not come off as scheduled.....

 

[mmb5]

Actually, it did: Rangers 5, Bruins 4We obviously don't know if it was broadcast on WNBT or not, but what kind of news could they really have put on the air then?--Mike

 

[FreddyE1977]

I know that the BBC station in London signed off on Sept. 1, 1939 in the middle of a Disney cartoon.The issue for them was that the TV signal made too inviting a beacon for German bombers....obviouslythey did not have the same concerns in New York.When BBC TV returned to the air in '46 they finished the cartoon from the point where it left off.

 

[Stanislav]

I know that the BBC station in London signed off on Sept. 1, 1939 in the middle of a Disney cartoon.The issue for them was that the TV signal made too inviting a beacon for German bombers....When BBC TV returned to the air in '46 they finished the cartoon from the point where it left off.

It may be an urban legend, but I've read that when broadcasting resumed, following the cartoon there appeared the same continuity announcer now 7 years older, who with typical British wit started his remarks with, "As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted...."