I hope that you, too, look back nostalgically at your early TV experiences as we travel back to those early days of Canadian TV. Saltzman would go on to pioneer early TV during his 20-year career at CBC and other networks. The first television sets available for commercial purchase were:Baird Televisor, which became the first television sold commercially in 1929. Marconi 702, which went on sale as one of the first electric TV sets available to consumers in the mid-1930s. As for the first commercially licensed television station in the U.S., it was W3XK, owned by inventor Charles Francis Jenkins.

Source: CBC News July 28, 2024 03:01 UTC