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Re: first broadcasts
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Dr Karen Orr Vered of Flinders University, South Australia, wrote:

> 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. [...]

Wrongly cited, then!  It was the OLYMPIC Games, held here in Melbourne.

- Ken Mogg
Melbourne, Australia
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin

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