On 28 April 1952, a 'Convention on the British Contribution to Television' was held at the Institution of Electrical Engineers at Savoy Place in London. Amazingly, the original studio projector (photograph below) was still in excellent working condition in 1952, twenty years after its construction. This had been designed and built for them by Baird engineers. The BBC used the same specially-built flying spot projector for virtually all of these television broadcasts until the closure of the service in Autumn 1935. In February 1934, television production was relocated to larger premises nearby, at 16 Portland Place. 1 The studio the BBC initially used for low definition television was BB1, located in the basement of Broadcasting House. At this time, the vision signal was sent out on 261.3 metres (London National) with the sound on 398.9 metres (Midland Regional). It was not until 22 August 1932 that the BBC reluctantly took over programme production from the Baird company. By 1932, it was clear that the future of television lay in ultra-short waves, and experimentation began along these lines. The limited bandwidth of the medium-wave radio transmitters ensured that picture resolution remained at only 30 lines. By late 1930, programmes were broadcast Monday to Friday from 11.00 to 11.30 in the morning, in addition to thirty minutes at midnight on Tuesdays and Fridays (after BBC radio went off the air). Television broadcasts had been made on the original 'low-definition' Baird standard on a regular basis from 1929 until 1935 using the BBC's existing medium-wave radio transmitter(s). The beginning of British television broadcasting is usually presented as the 1936 television trials held at the Alexandra Palace in London, however, its description as 'the world's first regular high-definition television service' required the term 'high-definition' for a reason. Television and Me-The Memoirs of John Logie Baird.Television-75 years after Alexandra Palace.Malcolm Baird looks back on 90 years of UK television.University of Strathclyde exhibition, 1990.Four Key Players in Early Television Development.Television at the 1939 New York World's Fair.SMPTE and IEEE recognitions of JLB's work.Print versus Television: from Baird to McLuhan.John Logie Baird and his Contributions to Television.The Making of JLB: The Man Who Saw The Future, 2002.John Logie Baird-the final months, 1945–1946.High Definition Colour Television, 1940–1944.What did JLB really do in World War II?.Television on the West End Stage in 1935.What was Early Television Actually Like?.The Man with the Flower in his Mouth, 1930.How Stereoscopic Television is Shown, 1928.The Televisor: Successful Test of New Apparatus 1926.Television in 1932, BBC Annual Report, 1933. British Association Lecture, Leeds, 1927.
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