On January 13, 1928, General Electric began operating an experimental television station, call sign W2XCW, from its Schenectady, New York facility, popularly known as WGY Television after its sister radio station. Transmitting 24 lines of vertical resolution at 20 frames per second, it is widely credited as the world's first regularly operating television station, broadcasting on a sustained schedule rather than staging a one-time demonstration. The station evolved through W2XB and, from February 26, 1942, became the commercial station WRGB, the second television station outside New York City (after Philadelphia's WPTZ) and the fourth overall in the United States.
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Milestone Year WhenGeneral Electric's W2XCW began broadcasting from Schenectady on January 13, 1928. The station later became W2XB, then the commercial station WRGB from February 26, 1942. 1 LocationSchenectady, New York, United States 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Cathode-Ray Tube, Technologies W2XCW's 1928 broadcasts used mechanical (Nipkow disc-based) scanning, not the cathode-ray tube that would displace mechanical television in the 1930s; recorded as variant to show the technology this milestone predates, not the one it used.
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In 1928, WRGB (then W2XCW) was started as the world's first television station.
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