WW2 TV stations

[Snowy]

Very interesting, thanks Mike. I find the history of wartime television fascinating.

I recall reading in the book 'V2' by Major-General Walter Dornberger on the history of the V-2 rocket that for the first successful flight on 3rd October 1942 at Peenemünde, a television crew from Siemens was present in the control block. It doesn't mention that the event was publicly televised (presumably not), but does say that the engineers watched the television screens for the launch. By the way this is a really excellent book.

[David_Hayward (RIP)]

My late grandparents had a TV pre-war, which was the first in the area. They were horribly expensive. All the neighbours came to marvel at it. Rather like my uncle and aunt's colour TV in 1964ish.

I believe that services were restricted to a radius from Alexandra Palace (they were in Hounslow). I believe that it was found that aircraft coukd home in on TV transmisisons so they had to go. Ally Pally was at the time a byewater I gather of the BBC, rather like being 'sent to Siberia', and home to experimental work.