European Mechanical TV Stations

Mechanical Television

European Mechanical TV Stations

This list of stations was compiled from magazine and newspaper articles.

City	Country	On Air	Lines	Frames/ Second	Aspect Ratio (H/V)	Freq.
London (Selfridge's) 2LO	England	1928
London (Long Acre)	England	1929-1932	30	12.5	3:7	752 kHz
London (Brookmans Park)	England	1932-1935	30	12.5	3:7	1147 kHz
Doberitz	Germany	1932	48	25	4:3	2.1 mHz
Berlin (Witzleben)	Germany	1932	30	12.5	4:3	716 kHz
Konigswursterhausen	Germany	1932	30	12.5	4:3	183.5 kHz
Berlin	Germany	1932	60	25	4:3	44.476 mHz
Montrouge	France	1932	30	16.6	4:3	1.5 mHz
Paris	France	1932	60	12.5	3:7	671 kHz
Warsaw	Poland	1937	120
Brussels	Belgium	1932	30	12.5, 16.6	4:3	589 kHz, 1,172 kHz
Moscow (RCZ)	Russia	1931-1941	30	12.5	4:3	271 kHz, 1304 kHz
Rome	Italy	1932	60	20	3:7	3.75 mHz

This list of broadcasting stations appeared in a French magazine in 1932. Thanks to Jerome Halphen for providing it to us.

Column 1 : Transmitter site
Column 2 : Wavelength (m)
Column 3 : Frequency (kHz)
Column 4 : Power (kw)
Column 5 : Aspect ratio

Column 6 : Number of lines
Column 7 : N of pixels
Column 8 : Frame rate
Column 9 : Direction of exploration
Column 10 : Type of programming

Phonie = audio, Image = video

Early Television

Some additional translation, courtesy of John Pinckney:

Television directe = Live presentation

Pas de films puisque le format anglais ne s'y prete pas. = No films as the English system isn't yet ready.

Films d'essai et television directe = Test films and live presentation

Films parlant = "Talking pictures"

Films et prises directe = Films and spontaneous scenes.

La Hollands suivra sous peu avec les meme characteristiques = The Dutch will follow soon with the same standards.

Montrouge = A city south of Paris, where Rene Barthelemy of CdC (Compagnie des Compteurs) carried out early experiments.

Velthem = Belgium

Another 1932 list of European stations, from a Dutch 1932 book about television:

Early Television

These pages show all the European television and facsimile stations on the air in 1932. Doberitz, Witzleben and Konigswuster-hausen are in Germany.

Some translations:

Note (1) on the first page: These hours are frequently changed, especially when they are try-out transmissions.

Note at the bottom of the second page: Besides the noted transmitters, there are at the moment also Paris PTT Television Baird-Montrouge (Television) and Moscow (Television Cinema) transmissions, from these the transmission hours are not fixed yet.

Zondag, Maandag, etc: Sunday, Monday, etc.

Golflengte: Wavelength

Beeldradio: Picture radio, or facsimile

Book and translations courtesy of Henk Dijkstra

Early Televison

Courtesy of Chris Long