Radiolympia
Hyam Greenbaum and the BBC Television Orchestra in a test broadcast from Alexandra Palace television station to audiences at Radiolympia
Radiolympia, also known as the Radio Show, was a pioneering exhibition of radio equipment, latterly television equipment, held annually at Olympia in London, England, in the 1920s to 1940s,[1][2] except for a period of interruption during World War II.[3]
The first such exhibition was held in 1926.[1]
On 26 August 1936, the first high-definition standard (Baird 240 lines) television transmission was made in a test by the BBC from the exhibition.[4][5][6] The day after, the Marconi-EMI (405 lines) system was used.
The record attendance was 238,000 in 1934.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c "Radiolympia in the 1930s". ORBEM. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
- ^ ""Radiolympia"". Nature. 164 (4172): 652. 15 October 1949. Bibcode:1949Natur.164..652.. doi:10.1038/164652a0.
- ^ "Sets at 1938 Radiolympia". RadioCraft. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
- ^ "Television Begins". www.bbc.co.uk. 2 November 2016. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "History of the BBC: The First Television Era". Television Heaven. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
- ^ "TV as we know it - History of the BBC". BBC. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
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Categories:
- History of radio
- History of television
- 1926 establishments in England
- Annual events in London