Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow
The Fernsehsender "Paul Nipkow" (TV Station Paul
Fernsehsender "Paul Nipkow"
Nipkow) , also known as Deutscher Fernseh-
Rundfunk (German Television Broadcasting), in
Berlin, Germany, was the first regular television
service in the world.[1][2][3] It was on the air from 22
March 1935, until it was shut down in 1944. The
station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, the
inventor of the Nipkow disk.[4]
History Type Television station
Country Nazi Germany
Parallel to the experiments by John Logie Baird in the
United Kingdom, by Herbert E. Ives and Charles Availability Germany
Francis Jenkins in the United States, as well as by Owner Deutsche Reichspost
Kenjiro Takayanagi in Japan, television pioneers like Ministry of Aviation
Dénes Mihály and Manfred von Ardenne had Ministry of Public
organised experimental television transmissions in Enlightenment and
Berlin since 1928. In the same year, Telefunken Propaganda
presented a television set prototype during the Key people Carl Boese
Internationale Funkausstellung industrial exhibition. Hans-Jürgen Nierentz
From 1929 television test programs were regularly Herbert Engler
aired from the Funkturm Berlin transmitter
Launch date 18 April 1934
(Rundfunksender Witzleben). The first public
transmission was introduced in the Kroll Opera House Dissolved 19 October 1944 (10 years,
on 18 April 1934. 184 days)
Replaced by Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk
At first the station could only be received in and (West Germany, television
around Berlin, later also in other German cities via broadcasts from 1950),
special Reichspost long distance cables. It became very Deutscher Fernsehfunk (East
popular when it covered the 1936 Summer Olympics Germany, launched in 1952),
[1]
in Berlin. About 160,000 viewers saw the Olympic Telewizja Polska (launched in
games on a few private televisions and in many public 1952, serve former parts of
television parlours. Television was used more for Germany), Soviet Central
mainstream entertainment rather than propaganda, as Television (for Kaliningrad
Joseph Goebbels preferred radio as a mass-medium. region)
The heavy and slow equipment made it difficult to
report, and almost all programming was broadcast live. From 1942 to 1944, the Germans also restarted a
TV station in Paris to broadcast programs in German and French. In 1944, the station was shut down, as
were most other cultural events, as a consequence of the approach of the Allied Armies in the Normandy
Campaign.
After the collapse of East Germany in 1990, about 280 rolls of 35mm film were discovered of
Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow programs. In recent years, much of that material has been aired on German
and international channels, mostly by The History Channel. In Germany, the rediscovered footage has
been first used in the 1996 documentary Televisionen im Dritten Reich ("Tele-Visions in the Third
Reich") made by WDR and NDR, as well as in Michael Kloft's 1999 documentary Das Fernsehen unter
dem Hakenkreuz ("Television Under the Swastika").
See also
Einheits-Fernseh-Empfänger E1
Television in Germany
History of television
History of television in Germany
Haus des Rundfunks
References
1. "22.3.1935: Erstes Fernsehprogramm der Welt" (https://web.archive.org/web/202303060702
42/http://www.kalenderblatt.de/index.php?what=thmanu&lang=de&manu_id=1737&sdt=200
90322&maca=de-podcast_kalenderblatt-1086-xml-mrss). Deutsche Welle. Archived from
the original on 6 March 2023. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
2. "Es begann in der Fernsehstube: TV wird 80 Jahre alt" (https://web.archive.org/web/201805
21200126/http://www.computerbild.de/artikel/avf-News-Fernseher-Es-begann-in-der-Fernse
hstube-TV-wird-80-Jahre-alt-11525963.html). Computer Bild. 22 March 2015. Archived from
the original (http://www.computerbild.de/artikel/avf-News-Fernseher-Es-begann-in-der-Ferns
ehstube-TV-wird-80-Jahre-alt-11525963.html) on 21 May 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
3. "Bewegte Bilder: Die Geschichte des Fernsehens" (https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/schaupla
etze/Bewegte-Bilder-Die-Geschichte-des-Fernsehens,fernsehen240.html). Norddeutscher
Rundfunk. 21 November 2023. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
4. "Das erste deutsche Fernsehpatent von Paul Nipkow" (http://www.pc-magazin.de/ratgeber/p
aul-nipkow-fernseher-patent-deutschland-geschichte-3148479.html). PC Magazin. 30 June
2015. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
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