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The first television sets were part electrical and part mechanical, consisting of spinning discs that replicated the action of a larger spinning disc in the studio. The first moving images - of a ventriloquist's dummy - were transmitted by Scot John Logie Baird in 1925.

In 1927 the first tv show was aired. It was a demonstration by Bell Telephone

Labs and AT&T with contributions from various executives of these companies

and a speech by the secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover.

This was followed by many ad-hoc broadcasts from Whippany, N. J. These were

experiments and were picked up by just one tv set - at Bell Laboratories, New

York City. These broadcasts consisted of images transmitted using radio waves

and sound transmitted via cable. They were not entertainment shows - just

a few engineers and scientists testing out the new medium.

The first shows that aired to the public were those of WRGB (known officially

as W2XB but popularly known as WGY's Television). Broadcasts were

beamed locally to Schenectady, N.Y. This happened to be the home town of

television (and radio) pioneer Ernst Alexanderson. Schenectady was also the home

of just four television receivers. The early WRGB broadcasts usually consisted of a

person sitting in a chair not doing very much except the odd hand or face

movement or a drag on a cigarette. In fact, watching people smoke cigarettes

seems to have been the main feature of early tv test transmissions!

The first scheduled tv shows, and from what I can make out, the world's first

regular tv shows were farming and weather bulletins aired twice a day, 3 days

per week on WRGB. These broadcasts were simply extensions of the output of radio

station WGY. The first remote location broadcast, or outside broadcast, took

place in 1928, once again by WRGB. The subject of this broadcast was Governor Al Smith's

acceptance speech of the Democratic nomination for office President of the United States.

Due to inclement weather, the ceremony was switched from outside to an indoor

location and the short notice didn't allow enough time to test the lighting and

equipment. Hence the resulting live pictures were of poor quality. Meanwhile, in

Wheaton, Maryland, Charles Jenkins' W3XK transmitter started tests followed by

regular programs in July 1928.

These broadcasts were never really meant or designed for wide public consumption,

however, some enthusiasts managed to build crude receivers and got to enjoy the

output. Charles Jenkins' estimated that W3XK had an audience of 20,000.

Many incorrectly quote the BBC's The Man with the Flower in his Mouth from

1930 as being the first broadcast play, but it was actually The Queen's Messenger,

written by J. Harley Manners and directed by Mortimer Stewart. This was aired on

WRGB in 1928.

It must be noted that in those early days television screens were about 3

inches by 3 inches. So small, in fact, that most output consisted of a person's

upper body. "Radio with pictures" is what it was called, and that was

not far off! The images consisted of varying shades of pink or brown, depending

on the illumination used. The presenters and performers would often need to wear

dark lipstick and green makeup so that their features would not be bleached in

the extremely bright studio lights. True color television came later. The

spinning discs were eventually replaced by all-electric systems. All tv shows,

including dramas, were live to air - there was no videotape or digital recording

in those days!

These pioneering broadcasts were effectively experiments (and were licensed

as such by the federal government). Most viewers were either wealthy and curious

or were hobbyists. It is unlikely that television had any real worth as an

entertainment or information medium in these early days. The extent to which

television could expand and could be networked was severely hampered by a lack

of a national standard for telecasting. There were also many technical

difficulties not least with the revolving disc system. It wasn't until the

forties when these issues had been ironed out that tv took off in earnest.

The rest, as they say, is history, but a very rich history indeed. Have a look

at bygonetv.com and you see what I mean.

Vernon Stent is the marketing consultant to http://www.bygonetv.com, specializing in old tv shows.

is there any place where i can donate my sperm in new york city?

i am very sexually active and i was thinking about donating my sperm to the women who are less fortunate. I live in New York City, is there places in new york city that has it? I have never done this before, if someone knows in depth information about it, please tell me how it works? i also heard that you get paid too.. can someone confirm that?
oh. i thought there is going to be a real woman standing in front of the class and we will jerk off in front of her.

Hey John,

I know you're extremely bored. But please rethink the donating sperm. Most people say for the fact that you'll have children out there and not even know them. But, for a completely different reason, I say for the fact that you'll have children out there and not even know them.

Picture this: Let's say in a few years you meet the love of your life and you get married, have children, the whole nine yards, live happily ever after... until one day you end up dealing with the fact that one of your children is sexually involved with their own half-sibling cuz you donated sperm way back when.

I know, not likely, but it's not impossible either. And think about how you might even discover that that has happened. No one might even know until a grandchild is born that exhibits symptoms of having sibling parents.

Just consider it very carefully, it's not just filling a cup with sperm.