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<strong>TELE</strong>-<strong>audiovision</strong> HISToRY <strong>TELE</strong>-<strong>audiovision</strong> in 1983<br />
cover page of <strong>TELE</strong>-satellite 06-07/2002<br />
212 <strong>TELE</strong>-<strong>audiovision</strong> International — The World‘s Largest Digital TV Trade Magazine — 05-06/2013 — www.<strong>TELE</strong>-<strong>audiovision</strong>.com<br />
30<br />
Years Ago<br />
Tv Station paris 1943<br />
First TV transmissions started in Germany in 1938 in Berlin. When Germany<br />
started World War II the managers at "Fernsehsender Berlin" (TV Station<br />
Berlin) were faced with having to close down their brandnew station for not<br />
being relevant to war efforts. They needed a reason to stay out of war and<br />
came up with the suggestion to relocate the tv station to Paris to entertain<br />
the wounded in hospitals there. Smartly, they argued that a high power tv<br />
station would disturbe enemy airplanes, which of course was nonsense but<br />
convinced the powers at the time.<br />
As luck had it, the French had just installed a tv transmitter of their own in<br />
the Eiffel tower to start their own transmissions with 180 lines. The Germans<br />
took over and first had to convert the transmitter to their 441 line system.<br />
Finally in 1942 a regular tv schedule in German language was started,<br />
which lasted up till summer 1944. TV was aired in the morning from 10<br />
to 12, and in the evening from 8:30 to midnight. In the remaining time the<br />
station turned off their video broadcast and became a radio only station.
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