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1943 in television

The year 1943 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1943.

Events

  • May 8 – Opening of Paris Télévision – Fernsehsender Paris, a channel operated by German occupation authorities (Kurt Hinzmann, former director of Fernsehsender "Paul Nipkow") after an agreement between Telefunken and Compagnie des Compteurs, with a (German) 441-line standard. Local French programmes and Fernsehsender "Paul Nipkow" programmes are interlaced.
  • June – Work is begun for the U.S. Army Air Forces to develop a remotely controlled glide bomb guided by a radio receiver and a television transmitter using a 625-line iconoscope tube. The first are completed in July and tested in August.
  • December 23 – The first complete opera, Hansel and Gretel, is telecast, by WRGB in Schenectady.
  • The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is formed. Its television network debuts in 1948.
  • Germany experiments with a flying bomb guided by a television camera, created by Fernseh, using both the Superikonoscope and the Farnsworth image dissector.

Debuts

  • The Voice of Firestone Televues (1943–1947; renamed The Voice of Firestone, broadcast from 1949 to 1963).
  • April 18 - Your Victory Garden debuts on W2XVW (Dumont) (1943)

Television shows

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