1927 in television

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 7 - The Royal Television Society is founded in the UK, although at this time it is known simply as 'The Television Society', not gaining its Royal patronage until 1966.
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.

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