Radio Electronics Magazine

[dtvmcdonald]

I found a very interesting article there:

http://www.americanradiohistory.com/...cs-1953-10.pdf

on P. 60. It is Oct, 1953

Its a list of TV stations is Europe. I count only 27 transmitter locations! Only
the UK has a reasonable coverage. Only Paris had two stations, one 441 line and
one 819 line.

Compare to the station list in the US as of 1953. Sure, we have a larger
area (but not by much, since the Europe list includes Moscow and
St. Petersburg.) In 1953 all even modest size US cities had more than one TV station.
And a (very) few of those, that month, were busily getting ready for
the 1954 Rose Bowl Parade ... in color.

I had always thought of Europe being behind ONLY in color ... I had
not realized it was so behind, period.