Early Television Stations
European/Australian Mechanical TV
Stations
This list of
stations was compiled from magazine and newspaper articles.
City |
Country |
On Air
|
Lines |
Frames/ Second |
Aspect Ratio (H/V) |
Freq. |
London (Long Acre) |
England |
1929-1932 |
30 |
12.5 |
3:7 |
752 kHz |
London (Brookmans Park) |
England |
1932-1935 |
30 |
12.5 |
3:7 |
1147 kHz |
Doberitz |
Germany |
1932 |
48 |
25 |
4:3 |
2.1 mHz |
Berlin (Witzleben) |
Germany |
1932 |
30 |
12.5 |
4:3 |
716 kHz |
Konigswursterhausen |
Germany |
1932 |
30 |
12.5 |
4:3 |
183.5 kHz |
Berlin |
Germany |
1932 |
60 |
25 |
4:3 |
44.476 mHz |
Montrouge |
France |
1932 |
30 |
16.6 |
4:3 |
1.5 mHz |
Paris |
France |
1932 |
60 |
12.5 |
3:7 |
671 kHz |
Brussels |
Belgium |
1932 |
30 |
12.5, 16.6 |
4:3 |
589 kHz, 1,172 kHz |
Moscow (RCZ) |
Russia |
1931-1941 |
30 |
12.5 |
4:3 |
271 kHz, 1304 kHz |
Rome |
Italy |
1932 |
60 |
20 |
3:7 |
3.75 mHz |
Melbourne (3UZ. 3DB) |
Australia |
1929 |
24 |
? |
? |
? |
Brisbane (4CM) |
Australia |
1934 |
80 |
? |
? |
2.2 mHz |
This list of broadcasting stations appeared
in a French magazine in 1932. Thanks to Jerome Halphen for providing it to
us.
Column 1 : Transmitter site
Column 2 : Wavelength (m)
Column 3 : Frequency (kHz)
Column 4 : Power (kw)
Column 5 : Aspect ratio |
Column 6 : Number of lines
Column 7 : N of pixels
Column 8 : Frame rate
Column 9 : Direction of exploration
Column 10 : Type of programming |
Phonie = audio, Image = video

Some additional translation, courtesy of John Pinckney:
Television directe = Live presentation
Pas de films puisque le format anglais ne s'y prete pas. =
No films as the English system isn't yet ready.
Films d'essai et television directe = Test films and live presentation
Films parlant = "Talking pictures"
Films et prises directe = Films and spontaneous scenes.
La Hollands suivra sous peu avec les meme characteristiques = The
Dutch will follow soon with the same standards.
Montrouge = A city south of
Paris, where Rene
Barthelemy of CdC (Compagnie
des Compteurs) carried out early experiments.
Velthem = Belgium |
Another 1932 list
of European stations, from a Dutch 1932 book about
television:


These pages show all the European television and facsimile
stations on the air in 1932. Doberitz, Witzleben and
Konigswuster-hausen are in Germany.
Some translations:
Note (1) on the first page: These hours are frequently
changed, especially when they are try-out transmissions.
Note at the bottom
of the second page: Besides the noted transmitters,
there are at the moment also Paris PTT Television Baird-Montrouge
(Television) and Moscow (Television Cinema) transmissions,
from these the transmission hours are not fixed yet.
Zondag, Maandag,
etc: Sunday, Monday, etc.
Golflengte: Wavelength
Beeldradio: Picture radio, or facsimile
Book and translations courtesy of Henk Dijkstra
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