science · 30 November 1956 · 68 years ago
In 1956, CBS became the first-ever network to broadcast from videotape. It was a rebroadcast to the West Coast of the 15-minute Douglas Edwards and the News program. It was recorded earlier on 2-inch tape with an Ampex Mark IV machine. NBC made the first nationally televised videotaped broadcast on 21 Jan 1957, promptly replaying President Dwight D. Eisenhower's oath of office for his second term inauguration. The videotape recorder invented by Ray Dolby was ready in Feb 1956 when Ampex had a successful in-house demonstration. After it was introduced at the annual CBS affiliates meeting in Chicago on 14 Apr 1956, taped programming quickly became the normal method in broadcasting
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