At any rate, Manchester did not lag far behind the first commercial system which was set up in 1844 between Baltimore and Washington.

Its first commercial use was as a seven-bit teleprinter code promoted by Bell data services.

The commercial and critical success of this film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers.

* 1926 – Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight ( Varney is the root company of United Airlines ).

* 1994 – Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.

During the first 11 months of 2006, the European Union remained Armenia's largest trading partner, accounting for 34. 4 percent of its $ 2. 85 billion commercial exchange during the 11-month period.

During the first 11 months of 2006, the volume of Armenia ’ s trade with Russia was $ 376. 8 million or 13. 2 percent of the total commercial exchange.

* 1807 – Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York, New York for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.

* 1974 – Western Union ( in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft ) launches the United States ' first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.

Afonso IV granted public funding to raise a proper commercial fleet and ordered the first maritime explorations.

* 1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.

* 1894 – The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.

The first simple commercial auto-pilots were used to control heading and altitude and had limited authority on things like thrust and flight control surfaces.

The RT was based on the ROMP microprocessor, the first commercial RISC chip.

The first commercial television systems were black-and-white ; The beginning of color television was in the 1950s.

The first commercial equipment for HR-CS AAS was introduced by Analytik Jena ( Jena, Germany ) at the beginning of the 21st century, based on the design proposed by Becker-Ross and Florek.

However, the first major pop rapper from Belgium was Benny B, who had a very mainstream and commercial sound.

Arianespace SA is a French company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial space transportation company.

Harry Church Whorf was an artist, intellectual and designer – first working as a commercial artist and later as a dramatist.

In his 1781 book General History of Connecticut, the Reverend Samuel Peters ( 1735 – 1826 ) used it to describe various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the 17th century that prohibited various activities, recreational as well as commercial, on Sunday ( Saturday evening through Sunday night ).

The first tour took place as a commercial venture, made without official backing, but the six subsequent visits that took place before the 1910 South Africa tour, the first representative of the four Home Unions, enjoyed a growing degree of support from the authorities.

The company started Argentina's first burlap bag manufacturer, following which they successfully lobbied government policy makers for protective tariffs on the then-critical commercial staple.

" However, it was as " Jim Rob Wills ," paired with Herman Arnspiger, that he made his first commercial ( though unissued ) recordings in November 1929 for Brunswick / Vocalion.

In 1882, Canadian Pacific transmitted its first commercial telegram over telegraph lines they had erected alongside its tracks, breaking Western Union's monopoly.

DVB-T is an abbreviation for Digital Video Broadcasting — Terrestrial ; it is the DVB European-based consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television that was first published in 1997 and first broadcast in the UK in 1998.

In August 2008 TV Slovenia broadcasted first HD event – Olympic Games 2008 on test DVB-T channel.

Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.

* 1993 – Virgin Radio broadcasts for the first time in the United Kingdom.

* 1954 – Radio Pakistan broadcasts the " Qaumī Tarāna ", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.

* 1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.

The first use for the diode was the demodulation of amplitude modulated ( AM ) radio broadcasts.

( Channel 1 eventually had to be deleted as well, with all TV broadcasts licensed at frequencies 54 MHz or higher, and the band is no longer widely used for emergency first responders either, those services having moved mostly to UHF.

After Pleumeur Bodou ( Brittany ) which received the first live transatlantic television broadcasts from the United States via the Telstar satellite at 0H47 GMT on July 11, 1962, Arthur received his first vidéo in the middle of the same day.

In 1925, Hugo founded radio station WRNY which broadcast from the 18th floor of The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City and was involved in the first television broadcasts.

* 1949 – The first " networked " television broadcasts take place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.

* 1954 – The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.

Sportvision provides a product called 1st & Ten which allows broadcasts of American football to include a visible line which may represent the line of scrimmage or the minimum distance that the ball must be moved for the offensive team to achieve a first down.

* 1920 – Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.

The studio originally functioned as a center for the Resistance movement in French radio, which in August 1944 was responsible for the first broadcasts in liberated Paris.

The first color NTSC television camera was the RCA TK-40, used for experimental broadcasts in 1953 ; an improved version, the TK-40A, introduced in March 1954, was the first commercially available color television camera.

* 1963 – The BBC broadcasts the first ever episode of Doctor Who ( starring William Hartnell ) which is the world's longest running science fiction drama.

* 2004 – The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U. S. presidential election.

Chicago's WGN radio station broadcast the trial with announcer Quin Ryan via clear-channel broadcasts for the first on-the-scene coverage of a criminal trial.

* February 12 – Radio Vaticana first broadcasts.

* April 6 – BBC Radio 4 broadcasts the first edition of PM.

** The first UK colour television broadcasts begin on BBC2.

* September 7 – In the USA, the Entertainment Sports Programming Network, known as ESPN, broadcasts for the first time.

* The experimental television station, W9XAP, in Chicago, Illinois, broadcasts the election for the U. S. Senate, which is the first time that a senatorial race, with continual tallies of the votes, is ever televised.