ON 30 October 1925, John Logie Baird made the first transmission of a moving image of a human face by television.
1. The face was that of his office boy, William Taynton, who was paid two shillings and sixpence for sitting in front of the hot TV transmitter.
2. Before using a real person, Baird experimented with a ventriloquist’s dummy called Stooky Bill.
3. The average person in the UK watches just over four hours’ television a day.
4. It has been calculated that the average American child sees about 13,000 deaths on television between the ages of five and 14.
5. In 1997, a monkey was arrested in the African state of Benin for stealing a television aerial.
6. In 2004, the number of television sets in the UK overtook the number of people.
7. The first couple shown in bed together on prime time US TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
8. Until 1987, there were no television broadcasts in Iceland on Thursdays.
9. The word ‘television’ entered the language in 1907. The abbreviation TV was first used in 1948.
10. “You know the really great thing about television? If something important happens, anywhere in the world, night or day, you can always change the channel” (Christopher Lloyd in Taxi)
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