<P> The first transatlantic television signal was sent in 1928 from London to New York by the Baird Television Development Company / Cinema Television, although this signal was not broadcast to the public . The first live satellite signal to Britain from the United States was broadcast via the Telstar satellite on July 23, 1962 . </P> <P> The first live broadcast from the European continent was made on August 27, 1950 . </P> <P> The first regularly scheduled television service in the United States began on July 2, 1928, fifteen months before the United Kingdom . The Federal Radio Commission authorized C.F. Jenkins to broadcast from experimental station W3XK in Wheaton Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. For at least the first eighteen months, 48 - line silhouette images from motion picture film were broadcast, although beginning in the summer of 1929 he occasionally broadcast in halftones . </P> <P> Hugo Gernsback's New York City radio station began a regular, if limited, schedule of live television broadcasts on August 14, 1928, using 48 - line images . Working with only one transmitter, the station alternated radio broadcasts with silent television images of the station's call sign, faces in motion, and wind - up toys in motion . Speaking later that month, Gernsback downplayed the broadcasts, intended for amateur experimenters . "In six months we may have television for the public, but so far we have not got it ." Gernsback also published Television, the world's first magazine about the medium . </P>

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