These are a few of the Tv firsts for WRGB which was formerly the GE owned Station in Schenectady NY.
First private, experimental television viewing (1926, USA)
First successful public television broadcast (January 1928, USA)
US Federal Government issues first name to WRGB, with the call letters "W2XB", but the station is popularly known as WGY Television, after its sister radio station. (Spring 1928)
First TV Newscaster, Kolin Hager, broadcasts farm and weather reports three times weekly on W2XB (May 10, 1928, USA)
WORLD's First remote television news broadcast at Capitol Building in Albany, NY., as Governor Alfred E. Smith accepts the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. (August 1928)
First dramatic program on television, "The Queen's Messenger", broadcast to four television sets! (September 1928, USA)
First Network Television Broadcast -- June 1939 -- Arrival of King and Queen of England at the N.Y. World's Fair -- The picture is broadcast from New York to Schenectady.
First NBC affiliate (November 1939)
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