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Television Today

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A very early TV show from 1931. It featured a newspaper editor giving talks about television. It was broadcast live from a station in New York City.

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What happens

Television Today is an early television series, which aired in New York City in 1931 on experimental mechanical television station W2XAB. Also known as Looking at Television, the series featured Charles E. Butterfield, who gave a series of talks. According to the article "Vision Offers Boxing, Chess" in the August 22, 1931, edition of The New York Sun, Butterfield was the radio editor of the Associated Press. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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