On January 26, 1926, John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor,
gave the first public demonstration of a true television system
in London, launching a revolution in communication and
entertainment.

This information was then transmitted by cable to a screen
where it showed up as a low-resolution pattern of light and
dark. Baird’s first television program showed the heads of
two ventriloquist dummies, which he operated in front of the
camera apparatus out of view of the audience.

Baird based his television on the work of Paul Nipkow, a
German scientist who patented his ideas for a complete
television system in 1884.

The first TV image from John Logie Baird’s early “Televisor” demonstrations.

The first Emmy Awards ceremony was held on January 25, 1949
at the Hollywood Athletic Club.

The awards recognize excellence in television (which in the
1940s was a novel medium).

Hollywood’s first television academy had been founded three
years earlier by Sydney Cassyd, a former film editor for Frank
Capra who later worked as a grip at Paramount Studios and
an entertainment journalist.

Sydney Cassyd (1908 – 2000) 

       

Betty (Marion Ludden) White 
(January 17, 1922 – December 31, 2021)

White was an actress and comedian, a pioneer of early
television with a career spanning almost seven decades.

(FOX NEWS) – Greg Gumbel, who broadcast the NFL
on CBS and served as the network’s studio host for
March Madness, has died after a bout with cancer.     

Anthony Tiran "Tony" Todd (1954 – 1924)

(AP) — Actor Tony Todd, known for his haunting portrayal of
a killer in the horror film “Candyman” (1992) and roles in many
other films and television shows, is dead. He was 69.

Todd’s films include Platoon (1986)
as Sergeant Warren.