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13 August: ABD-6 launches as Darwin's first television station. 11 September: ITQ-8 Mount Isa begins broadcasting. 9 October: Hey Hey It's Saturday starts off as a Saturday morning cartoon program for children on Nine Network. 22 November: A Current Affair, hosted by Mike Willesee, makes its first appearance on the Nine Network.
Jun 15, 2021 · Today in 1948, Connecticut’s first television station WNHC-TV, Channel 6 (now WTNH Channel 8) began broadcasting in New Haven. The introduction of this new media to Connecticut was the brainchild of Aldo DeDomenicis, an Italian pasta-wholesaler who had previously found success buying radio time on Italian programs and selling that time as radio ads…
Aug 12, 2019 · The Nigerian television authority, proudly the first television station in Africa, started operation formally in 1977 as a body owned by the Nigerian government. The station, whose major responsibility is broadcasting in the country, is believed to be the largest TV network in the whole of Africa with its stations widely spread across states in Nigeria.
Feb 19, 2019 · The first TV station in Africa was the Western Nigerian Television (WNTV) founded by the Western Nigerian regional government, under Chief Obafemi Awolowo. It was situated in Ibadan, and transmitted for the first time on the 31st of October 1959, just one year before Nigeria’s independence.
Apr 7, 2011 · 12 May 1937: First major electronic television outside broadcast: the coronation of King George VI. 9,000 TV sets are sold in the London area. 1 September 1939: British television is shut down immediately at the advent of the Second World War. It is estimated that there are 20,000 TV sets in Britain at this time.
Nov 3, 2019 · Benue-Plateau Television Corporation was established in 1974 as the first coloured station in Nigeria. But, in 1977, the then military regime fused all the television stations into one entity with the name Nigerian Television (NTV). It was later renamed Nigerian Television Authority (NTA).
It was the first Omaha station to broadcast local programming in color, starting in the mid-1950s; it was the first station to provide live reports during its daily newscasts; it was the first of the three local stations to broadcasts three live daily newscasts, at 5, 6, and 10 p.m.; and in 1993, WOWT was the first local television station to ...
