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- Programmes closed as normal on 1st September 1939, but no closing announcements were made. Only 20,000 households had television sets, and as television programmes were expensive to produce, it was felt the resources saved could be better used elsewhere during wartime.
www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/september/closedown-of-televisionClose down of Television service for the duration of the War
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Electronic TV was under development and was publicly demonstrated during the Radio Exhibition in Warsaw in August 1939, regular operations planned to start at the beginning of 1940, work stopped because of the outbreak of World War II.
For example, the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the former Soviet Union all had operational television stations and a limited number of viewers by 1939. Very few cities in each country had television service. Television broadcasts were not yet available in most places.
In 1949 only 297 households had a TV set and the TV market was limited to a single TV channel run by the government. In 1965, 40 percent of French people had a TV set to watch two State-owned channels.
Televisions were an uncommon sight before the Second World War, with only around 20,000 sets in Britain. The Marconiphone model 709 was probably released in 1938. But the following year, when war was declared, television broadcasts were discontinued and sets could only be used for their radios.
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