GEC: Radio and Television
Note: This is a sub-section of GEC
1930 Advert for GECoPhone - 3 valve all electric radio operated by a.c. mains; price included Osram valves[1].
1936 Demonstration of GEC television sets at Wembley receiving signals from the BBC transmitter at Alexandra Palace; the sets could receive both the 25 frames/s and the 50 frames/s signals that the BBC transmitted [2]. Started production of cathode ray tubes.
1939 Competition in radios continued to depress prices[3].