Forgive me for not being able to pinpoint the source, but I KNOW I've seen
a list like this in the past year or two. I want to say it was online at
one of those TV history sites, but I could be wrong. I remember being
struck by the fact that some countries had nothing until the early 1970s...

Perhaps it's a useless response, but I thought you would want to know the
list DOES exist.

Melissa Williams
Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies
University of Minnesota

> Date:    Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:50:58 +0930
> From:    Karen Orr Vered <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: first broadcasts
> 
> I'd like a list of first broadcasts for TV by nation.  Does one exist or
> shall we compile one?
> 
> In Australia the first non-test broadcast is cited as the Commonwealth
> Games of 1956.  In Israel I am told it was a parade or some sort of
> ceremony of honour after the 1967 war.
> 
> What was it in France, Japan, USSR, Peru...?
> 
> I'd like more of these firsts.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> Karen Orr Vered, PhD
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