High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The first regular electronic television service in Germany began in Berlin on March 22, 1935, using a 180-line system, and broadcasting 90 minutes three times a week. Very few receivers were ever privately owned, and viewers went instead to Fernsehstuben (television parlors). During the 1936 Summer Olympics, broadcasts, up to eight hours a day, took place in Berlin and Hamburg. The National Socialists intended to use television as a medium for their propaganda once the number of television sets were increased , but television was able initially to reach only a small number of viewers, in contrast to radio. By 1939 and the start of World War II plans for an expansion of television programming were soon changed in favor of radio. Nevertheless, the Berlin station, along with one in occupied Paris (Fernsehsender Paris), remained on the air for most of World War II. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном...