TV during World War II

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I was looking the site of the Early Television Foundation, and saw this 1944 RCA ad:

http://www.earlytelevision.org/rca_1...amming_ad.html

That made me think: does anyone here know someone ( or someone related to ) who actually was a TV viewer during the early 1940's? I would love to know the experiences and perceptions of what it was like to watch TV during those days. What sort of programs were broadcast during World War II. You know, just to imagine that during the Second World War period there actually existed people who had a TV set in their homes, and watched programs, well, ir seems almost... surreal. It's more or less something that seems out of context.

I have read and heard the perceptions of early TV viewers when TV began here in Brazil, in 1950. One lady, who was a kid at the time, said that she thought it was just too cool, but that she didn't believe it was going to last - she saw it more or less like it was some sort of science fiction experiment. Other guy remembers that in 1951 he regularly went to a friend's house to watch TV, and that one night the TV was broadcasting a sport event that was happening just a very few kilometers away, but he marveled at that: "wow, how they can show something that is happening in the other side of the city?" he thought. He says that to him, in 1951, it seemed like something from another world.

In 1951 people already knew about the Atom Bomb and jet planes... and still were marveled by television. It makes me think what were the thoughts of those who were lucky enough to watch TV in 1940, 1941, 1942...