Events
- May 1 – The first wedding is broadcast on television, on New York City's W2XCR.
- July 21 – CBS's station W2XAB began broadcasting 28 hours a week in New York City.
- August – At the Berlin Radio Show, Manfred von Ardenne gives the world's first public demonstration of a television system using a cathode-ray tube for both transmission and reception. Ardenne never develops a camera tube, using the CRT instead as a flying-spot scanner to scan slides and film.
- October 9 – Canada's first television station, VE9EC, begins broadcasting in Montreal, Quebec. VE9EC was owned jointly by radio station CKAC and the newspaper La Presse.
- October 30 – NBC installs a television transmitter on top of the Empire State Building.
- November 1 – Television images are transmitted from JOAK radio station in Tokyo, Japan by Professors Kenjiro Takayagani and Tomomasa Nakashima. The still images comprise 80 lines at 20 frames per second.
- December 22 – NBC begins broadcasting experimental test transmissions from the Empire State Building transmitter.
- December 23 – Don Lee Broadcasting signs on W6XAO (later KTSL) from Los Angeles with low-definition electromechanical television, broadcasting one hour of film footage, six days per week.
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