Video: 'First 2 Television Broadcasts of The Third Reich Nazi Germany (1935 & 1936)'

(Friday, March 22, 1935) — The first regular electronic television service in Germany began today in Berlin, as Deutscher Fernseh Rundfunk.

Broadcasting from the Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow, it used a 180-line system, and was on air for 90 minutes, three times a week. Very few receivers were ever privately owned, and viewers went instead to Fernsehstuben (television parlors).