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We don't know what the television programming consisted of, or any details of the transmissions.</p> <p align="center"><img src="images/urbana_daily_courier_5-9-1933.jpg" width="400" height="275" alt="Early Television" /></p> <p align="center">Urbana Daily Courier, May 9, 1933<a name="doug" id="doug"></a></p> <p align="left">Comment from Doug McDonald on 9/10/2024:</p> <table width="90%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <th scope="col"> <div align="left">I talked tonight to two WILL engineers, one of whom has studied the station's history, and rescued some documents from when they intentionally threw out most of the station's history. They are quite sure that WILL never ever transmitted mechanical television, and they think the mention was likely a show about how "television is coming". </div> <p align="left"> </p></th> </tr> </table> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> </div> </td> <td width="1%" valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffff"> </td> </tr></table><div align="center"><p> </p><span id="siteseal"> <script async type="text/javascript" src="https://seal.godaddy.com/getSeal?sealID=VeYeABh1hQddraUJaqo539RWqNDVw967aznWInYLY8X3lxM2aWedVGKJ9BN8"></script> </span></div> </div>  <br class="clearfloat" /> <div id="footer"> <table width="101%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td > </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" bgcolor="#a1b1f1"> <tr> <td width="25%"><div align="center" >Early Television Museum</div></td> <td><div align="center">5396 Franklin St., Hilliard, OH 43026</div></td> <td><div align="center">(614) 771-0510</div></td> <td><div align="center"><a href="mailto:info@earlytelevision.org">info@earlytelevision.org</a></div></td> </tr> </table>  </div>  </div> </body> <script>'undefined'=== typeof _trfq || (window._trfq = []);'undefined'=== typeof _trfd && (window._trfd=[]),_trfd.push({'tccl.baseHost':'secureserver.net'},{'ap':'cpsh-oh'},{'server':'p3plzcpnl505096'},{'dcenter':'p3'},{'cp_id':'2285050'},{'cp_cl':'8'}) // Monitoring performance to make your website faster. 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