Date of the introduction of television for various countries

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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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