Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index See also: 1926 in television, other events of 1927, 1928 in television and the list of 'years in television'. Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths Events January 1 - The British Broadcasting Company becomes the British Broadcasting Corporation. April 7 - Bell Telephone Company transmits an image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover 200 miles over telephone lines which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television May - Philo Farnsworth transmits the first experimental electronic television pictures May 23 - The first demonstration of television before a large audience. Nearly 600 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers view the demonstration at the Bell Telephone Building in New York City. September John Logie Baird demonstrates the first ever system for recording television. His Phonovision video disc records 30-line television pictures and sound on conventional 78rpm gramophone records. Baird transmits a television signal from London to Glasgow over a telephone line. The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as CBS) is formed Births January 17 - Eartha Kitt, actress, singer February 15 - Harvey Korman, actor, comedian Deaths This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.