Exactly one century on, a team at Bournemouth University is recreating the first receiver.

In his lab 100 years ago, inventor John Logie Baird delivered the first public demonstration of true television. What exactly did viewers see that day?

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To mark 100 years since the first public demonstration of television, RTS Technology Centre's Kara Myhill reflects on how the ...

John Logie Baird took his Televisor out of stealth on January 26, 1926. But the demonstration faced some serious skepticism.

In Soho, London, 100 years ago, John Logie Baird’s mechanical television system broadcast recognisable human faces for the ...

One hundred years after the birth of television in Britain, Magic Rays of Light author John Wyver looks back at the rapid development of the new medium during the 1930s – a lost era that saw a huge ...

On a cold Tuesday in London in 1926, a tallish but sickly and eccentric Scotsman invited members of Britain’s Royal ...

The moon landing! Royal weddings! Janet Jackson’s $550,000 nipple! As television turns 100, we charts its journey from terrifyingly dangerous to the thing that unites us ...

Today marks an auspicious anniversary which might have passed us by had it not been for [Diamond Geezer], who reminds us that ...

The proportion of daily viewing on TV sets declined from 61% at the start of 2017 to 48% late last year, according to market ...