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Happy 100th birthday television!
On January 26th, 1926, John Logie Baird gave the first public demo of a working television system in his laboratory above what is now Bar Italia on Frith Street, in London's Soho.
🎵 You've had your time, you've had your power, you've yet to have your finest hour.
No, wait, that's radio. Never mind, same thing but with pictures!
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The Band Wagon
Watching #TheBandWagon and looking up #JackBuchanan's Wikipedia. Who knew he was a telly pioneer and had been at school with #JohnLogieBaird?
"On 12 June 1928, Buchanan participated in the first-ever transatlantic television broadcast. It was conducted by Scottish engineer John Logie Baird, an important figure in the technological development of television."
#TV #Musicals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Buchanan
Https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000p33w