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This is a list of when the first publicly announced television broadcasts occurred in the mentioned countries. Non-public field tests and closed circuit demonstrations are not included.
| Year |
Countries |
| 1928 |
United States (Mechanical television ) |
| 1929 |
United Kingdom (Mechanical), Germany (Mechanical) |
| 1931 |
France (Mechanical), Soviet Union (Mechanical) |
| 1935 |
Germany (Intermediate film; semi-electronic) |
| 1936 |
Germany (Electronic television), United Kingdom (Electronic), United States (Electronic) |
| 1937 |
France (Electronic), Poland (Electronic), |
| 1938 |
Soviet Union (Electronic) |
| 1939 |
Japan (Electronic), Italy (Electronic), |
| 1941 |
United States (Commercial) |
| 1944 |
France (Returned) |
| 1946 |
United Kingdom (Returned) |
| 1949 |
Cuba, France (Commercial) |
| 1950 |
Mexico, Brazil |
| 1951 |
Argentina, Denmark, Netherlands, Japan (Returned), Poland |
| 1952 |
Canada, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, West Germany, East Germany |
| 1953 |
Czechoslovakia, Philippines, Switzerland |
| 1954 |
Belgium, Colombia, Hawaii, Morocco, Norway, Puerto Rico, Monaco, Italy (Returned) |
| 1955 |
Luxembourg, Thailand, United Kingdom (Commercial) |
| 1956 |
Romania, Algeria, Australia, Austria, Cyprus, El Salvador, Guam, Guatemala, Iraq, South Korea, Nicaragua, Spain, Sweden, Uruguay, Panama |
| 1957 |
Chile, Finland, Hong Kong , Hungary, Portugal, Saudi Arabia |
| 1958 |
Bermuda, People's Republic of China , Iran, Peru, Yugoslavia |
| 1959 |
Bulgaria, Haiti, Honduras, India, Lebanon, New Zealand, Nigeria, Ecuador |
| 1960 |
Costa Rica, United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria ), Southern Rhodesia, Netherlands Antilles |
| 1961 |
Ireland, Kuwait, Northern Rhodesia, U.S Virgin Islands |
| 1962 |
Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Malta, Indonesia, Sierra Leone, Republic of China, Trinidad and Tobago, Cambodia, Gibraltar, Upper Volta |
| 1963 |
Gabon, Malaysia, North Korea, Senegal, Singapore, Jamaica, Uganda |
| 1964 |
American Samoa, Barbados, East Pakistan, Ethiopia, French Polynesia, Guadeloupe, Liberia, Mauritius, West Pakistan, Réunion |
| 1965 |
Ghana, Israel, New Caledonia, Paraguay, South Vietnam |
| 1966 |
Greece, North Vietnam, Tunisia, Iceland |
| 1967 |
Turkey, Mongolia, Djibouti, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Madagascar, Saint Lucia |
| 1968 |
Jordan, Equatorial Guinea, Libya, Sudan |
| 1969 |
Albania , Bolivia, United Arab Emirates |
| 1970 |
Qatar |
| 1972 |
St. Kitts and Nevis |
| 1973 |
Niger, Tanzania, British Virgin Islands |
| 1974 |
Palau, Oman |
| 1975 |
Federated States of Micronesia, South Africa, Angola, Brunei, Tuvalu |
| 1976 |
Zaire |
| 1977 |
Bahamas |
| 1978 |
Afghanistan, Lesotho, Maldives |
| 1979 |
Mozambique, Sri Lanka, Somalia |
| 1981 |
Belize |
| 1983 |
Mali, Nepal, Seychelles |
| 1984 |
Macau, Tonga, Faroe Islands |
| 1986 |
Niue, Papua New Guinea |
| 1987 |
Cape Verde |
| 1989 |
Cook Islands, Andorra |
| 1990 |
Western Samoa |
| 1991 |
Falkland Islands, Fiji , Nauru , |
| 1992 |
Solomon Islands, Vanuatu |
| 1993 |
Eritrea, Northern Mariana Islands |
| 1995 |
Gambia, Guinea-Bissau |
| 1999 |
Malawi, Bhutan |
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