Timeline of the introduction of television in countries
A map showing when television was introduced in each country.
This is a list of when the first publicly announcedtelevisionbroadcasts occurred in the mentioned countries. Non-public field tests and closed circuit demonstrations are not included.
Service existed only in Moscow and Leningrad until 1950. The Soviets introduced television broadcasting in the Ukraine (1951), Latvia (1954), Armenia and Estonia (1955), Georgia (1956), and Lithuania (1957).
Television service existed in the Bahamas prior to 1977. Before then, they were received from the United States.
Although 180-line cathode ray tube receivers were manufactured in France in 1936, a mechanical scanning camera was still used at the transmitter in Paris until 1937.
Television broadcasts had also been received from Argentina.
Despite the Vatican receiving a television service of its own in 1983, the Vatican (being inside the city of Rome) has been able to receive Italian broadcasts since 1954, which is still the case today.
The Israeli Ministry of Education in cooperation with the Rothschild Fund started limited broadcasts to schools in March 1966. A public state-owned TV channel started broadcasting in May 1968. Broadcasts were black and white (with a few exceptions) until the early 1980s.
All of the countries that established their first commercial television station after 1988 have been listed. This is according to statistics from sources including the CIA World Factbook.
Flemish-languageBRT used the Belgian 625-line standard and French-language RTB used the Belgian 819-line standard (abandoned in 1963). Early Belgian sets were very expensive because they could receive 4 different standards: Belgian 625, European 625, Belgian 819, French 819. Later a 5th standard was added with the French 625-line standard.
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