page_title: 1931 in television
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: 1931 in television / Events
caption_attribution_description: Empire State Building in New York
context_page_description: The year 1931 in television involved some significant events.
  Below is a list of television-related events during 1931.
context_section_description: May 1 – The first wedding is broadcast by television, on New York City's W2XCR.
  July 21 – CBS's station W2XAB began broadcasting 28 hours a week in New York City. 
  August – At the Berlin Radio Show, Manfred von Ardenne gives the world's first public demonstration of a television system using a cathode-ray tube for both transmission and reception. Ardenne never develops a camera tube, using the CRT instead as a flying-spot scanner to scan slides and film.
  October 9 – Canada's first television station, VE9EC, begins broadcasting in Montreal, Quebec. VE9EC was owned jointly by radio station CKAC and the newspaper company La Presse.
  October 30 – NBC installs a television transmitter on top of the Empire State Building.
  November 1 – Television images are transmitted from JOAK radio station in Tokyo, Japan by Professors Kenjiro Takayagani and Tomomasa Nakashima. The still images comprise 80 lines at 20 frames per second.
  December 22 – NBC begins broadcasting experimental test transmissions from the Empire State Building transmitter.
  December 23 – Don Lee Broadcasting begins broadcasting low-definition electromechanical television from the station W6XAO (later KTSL) in Los Angeles, broadcasting one hour of film footage, six days per week.
caption: October 30: NBC on Empire State Building which had opened during May 1931.
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