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Television in Australia

  • Begining of TV

    Scientist started working on electronics to make life better.
  • First picture transfer

    Abbe Giovanna Caselli invented the Pantelegraph.
  • Idea of TV

    George Carey thinks up the TV
  • First Television

    First Television
    The first television was seen at the 1900 World Fair in Paris
  • TV was tested

    The first long distance TV test was conducted between Washington D.C and New York
  • First TV station

    The first TV station was named W3XK.
  • First Australian TV broadcast

  • TV revolution

    200 TV sets were in use
  • First major TV network

    CBS became the first major TV network
  • Coloured TV

    Coloured TV
    Coloured TV was finally released
  • Broadcasting Act

    The Menzies government provideslegislative framework for commercial TV licenses
  • First Australian television licences were issued

  • ABC

    ABC
    ABC begins broadcasting in Sydney
  • Olympics

    Olympics
    Summer Olympics in Melbourne is shown on TV
  • Mainstream tv was launched

  • Colour TV in Australia

    Colour TV test transmissions are made for the first time in Australia
  • TV from the Moon

    Neil Armstrong use a camera to show the whole world his trip to the moon.
  • Colour TV becomes comercial

    Colour TV is introduced across the country
  • Commercial Television

    The peak of commercial television arose.
  • Flat Screen TV

    Flat Screen TV
    Panasonic developed the flat screen
  • Foxtel founded in Australia

    Foxtel founded in Australia
  • Analogue became Digital

    The shutdown of analogue broadcasts to didgital broadcasts took place