• Mechanical TV
  • Gallery
  • Database
  • More
  • Sets at the Museum
  • Restoration
  • Broadcasting
  • Peter Yanczer's Site
• Pre-1945 TV
  • Gallery
  • Database
  • More
  • American Sets at the Museum
  • British Sets at the Museum
  • Restoration
  • CRT Rebuilding
  • Broadcasting
  • Technical Information
  • Other Equipment
    • Antennas
    • CRTs
    • Test Equipment
    • VHF Boosters
• Postwar TV
  • American Postwar TV
    • Database
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    • Sets at the Museum
  • British/European Postwar TV
    • More
    • Sets at the Museum
  • Restoration
  • CRT Rebuilding
  • Postwar Broadcasting
  • Technical Information
  • Other Equipment
    • Accessories
    • Advertising
    • Antennas
    • CRTs
    • Test Equipment
• Early Color TV
  • Gallery
  • Database
  • Color TV Systems
  • More
  • Sets at the Museum
  • Restoration
  • CRT Rebuilding
  • Broadcasting
  • Technical Information
  • CRTs
  • Pete Deksnis's Site
• CRT Rebuilding
  • Rebuilding Tubes at the Museum
  • Donations
• The Museum
  • Early Television Foundation and Museum
  • Directions to the Museum
  • Friends of the Museum
  • Equipment Donations

Museum Hours:

Saturday 10-6

Sunday 12-5

Early Television Museum

British, European & South American TV

When British television resumed in 1946,  it re-started right at the same point in a cartoon where it was shut off in 1939.  Then the announcer Jasmine Bligh came on and said, "Sorry for the interruption of our programme service.  Our next presentation is..."  As if nothing had happened!

By 1947, only 15,000 British homes had television sets, and there was only one TV station, in London. Growth was much slower than in the U.S., with only 344,000 television homes by 1950. By 1949, only one additional station was on the air, in Birmingham.