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September 11, 1928
- The first performance took place on September 11, 1928, and the first transmission was made during the Schenectady station WGY's ordinary TV time at 1:30 PM and another at 11:30 PM.
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The Queen's Messenger was the first television drama. The experiment was broadcast by a Schenectady, New York station on September 11, 1928. It was a radio drama adapted for television and broadcast both sound and moving pictures.
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In September 1928, W2XB (owned by General Electric's WGY) in Schenectady, NY televised the first dramatic program in the United States, "The Queen's Messenger," by J. Harley Manners, a blood and thunder play with guns, daggers, and poison.
Nov 12, 2023 · Regularly scheduled television broadcasts had only been authorized in July 1928. Even so, the station was not quite ready to start airing programs such as The Queen's Messenger. Before the authorization was granted in July, WGY had managed to carry out the first successful public broadcast.
On September 11, 1928 W2XB, owned by General Eelectric's WGY in Schenectady, New York, televised the first dramatic program in the United States. The one-act play broadcast was The Queen's Messenger by J. Harley Manners, "a blood and thunder play" with guns, daggers, and poison.
Jan 29, 2018 · That is, until The Queen’s Messenger aired in Sept. 11, 1928. The 40-minute long program was the first drama to ever be broadcast on television, thanks to WGY Television, General Electric’s experimental station based in Schenectady, N.Y.
A brief clip of the recording of "The Queen's Messenger," the first televised drama. Taken from the GE film "Big Deeds." The actors seen here are presumably both hand models for the close up...
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Sep 11, 2018 · The very first television drama aired 90 years ago today on September 11th, 1928. “The Queen’s Messenger,” a radio drama adapted for television, aired on General Electric’s experimental TV station W2XAD (now WRGB) in Schenectady, New York.
