W2XB/X2B/WGY/WRGB Schenectady
W2XB was General Electric's television station in Schenectady, New York. It began broadcasting as 2XB, on 790 kHz in 1928, using a 24 line mechanical standard. Soon afterward it switched to 48 lines. The country's first television drama, The Queen's Messenger, was broadcast by W2XB.
Washington Post, May 17, 1928
(Courtesy of John Pinckney)
From Oct. 11 1930 issue of Radio World
In 1939 W2XB began broadcasting electronic television. One of the first television networks interconnected W2XBS, the NBC station in New York City,with W2XB. Except for a short period in 1941, the station continued a regular schedule of television programming. After the war, W2XB became WRGB.
From Radio & Television, Aug. 1939
From Radio & Television, July 1940