1930 in American television

none 1930 This is a list of American television-related events in 1930. Events January 3 - James Harbord replaces Owen D. Young as the chairman of the board for RCA. David Sarnoff, who was RCA's founding general manager, became the company's third president on the same day.Gleason Archer (1938), History of radio, pages 187–188 Spring - The inventor Vladimir K. Zworykin was hired by the businessman David Sarnoff. Zworykin was put him in charge of television development for the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) at its factories and laboratories in Camden, New Jersey. Zworykin's move to the RCA's Camden laboratories occurred in the spring of 1930. The difficult task of developing a transmitter could begin. There was an in-house evaluation in mid-1930, where the kinescope (cathode ray tube) performed well, but with only 60 lines for definition. Story of Television, The https://archive.org/details/StoryofT1956 8 January 2020 1956 March 30 - On March 30, Philo Farnsworth applied for a patent for his "electron multiplier". He demonstrated its application in 1931.Abramson, Albert (1987), The History of Television, 1880 to 1941. Jefferson, NC: Albert Abramson. p. 148. 0-89950-284-9.Everson, George (1949), The Story of Television, The Life of Philo T. Farnsworth New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Co,. 978-0-405-06042-7.137–141 May - In May 1930, the United States Department of Justice brought antitrust charges against RCA, General Electric (GE) and the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, arguing that their cross-licensing agreements had in effect created illegal monopolies. "Government Starts Anti-Trust Suits", Gettysburg Times, May 14, 1930, page 2. August 26 - The inventor Philo Farnsworth was granted his first television patent on August 26, 1930. Farnsworth Elma G. 1990 Distant Vision: Romance and Discovery of an Invisible Frontier Salt Lake City PemberlyKent Publishers, Inc. 978-0-9623276-0-5 #? https://archive.org/details/distantvisionrom00farn By that time Farnsworth had moved to San Francisco. He set up his new lab at 202 Green Street.http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist10/philo.html Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906–1971) The Museum of the City of San Francisco July 15, 2009 November 6, 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201106124048/http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist10/philo.html live Specific date unknown - In 1930, RCA agreed to occupy the yet-to-be-constructed landmark skyscraper of the Rockefeller Center complex, 30 Rockefeller Plaza. In 1933, the building became known as the RCA Building (renamed the GE Building in 1988 and currently known as the Comcast Building after Comcast bought NBC-TV). This lease was critical for enabling the massive project to proceed as a commercially viable venture. David Rockefeller cited RCA's action as being responsible for "the salvation of the project"."Rescuing the Project" section of Memoirs by David Rockefeller, New York: Random House, 2002, p. 55. John D. Rockefeller Jr. quickly negotiated with RCA and its subsidiaries, National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and Radio-Keith-Orpheum(RKO), to build a mass media entertainment complex on the site.Krinsky 1978 50Adams 1985 29Okrent 2003 70 Births 1930 in television#Births Deaths 1930 in television#Deaths References Sources http://www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org/db/bb_files/1985RockefellerCenter.pdf Rockefeller Center Designation Report 1985 City of New York; New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission Adams Janet November 10, 2017 November 7, 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20171107113311/http://www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org/db/bb_files/1985RockefellerCenter.pdf dead Krinsky Carol H. Carol Herselle Krinsky Rockefeller Center Oxford University Press 1978 978-0-19502-404-3 https://books.google.com/books?id=7xlDAQAAIAAJ Okrent Daniel Daniel Okrent Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center Penguin Book London 2003 978-0-142-00177-6 1930 *