1927 in television

Events

January 1 - The British Broadcasting Company becomes the British Broadcasting Corporation.
April 7 - Bell Telephone Company[?] transmits an image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover 200 miles over telephone lines which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television
May - Philo Farnsworth transmits the first experimental electronic television pictures
May 23 - The first demonstration of television before a live audience. Nearly 600 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers[?] and the Institute of Radio Engineers[?] view the demonstration at the Bell Telephone Building[?] in New York City.
September John Logie Baird demonstrates the first ever system for recording television. His Phonovision video disc records 30-line television pictures and sound on conventional 78rpm gramophone records.
Baird transmits a television signal from London to Glasgow over a telephone line.