Josh Clark

Right.

So, yeah, this is where they were going to start selling TVs to the public.

The problem is, is you can have all the TVs in the world, but if you don't have anything to watch on it.

Good point.

What are you going to do?

Nothing.

You're going to sit there like a jackass and look at a blank TV.

So luckily, RCA thought of this and they founded NBC, the National Broadcasting Company.

to start broadcasting stuff.

So they brought the whole thing together, the broadcasting and the TVs themselves, and they debuted it on April 30th, 1939, when they, I think, created the world's first live television broadcast of Franklin Roosevelt kicking off the 1939 World's Fair.

That's right.

And we did mention this one in another episode, but he was, you know, sort of the first president daddy of TV, granddaddy of TV.

And like you said, he opened it up there and, you know, NBC had gotten there and they had their, you know, now antiquated...

TV technology all lined up.

It was just pretty whiz-bang at the time.

And they sent signals through these mobile broadcasting trucks, which, I mean, it's pretty amazing that in the 1930s they had the technology to even accomplish that.

Right.

So it was pretty impressive still to this day.

And broadcast that signal out to about 2,000 viewers, which seemed like a big number at the time, I imagine.

I'm still impressed with news fans.