At 2:00 PM on February 1, 1953, NHK(Nippon Hoso Kyokai: Japan Broadcasting Corporation)started broadcasting. At those times there were only 866 receiving contracts and the TV reception fee was yen 200 per month. The starting salary of the college graduates was yen 8,000 per month and a TV set cost yen 170,000. A TV set was beyond their budget.
The history of TV is said to have begun with the invention of the Braun tube in 1897 by German Nobel Prize Winner, Karl Ferdinand Braun.
In 1936 BBC started broadcasting. In 1939 NHK tried experimental broadcasting.
In Japan on July 24, 2011 will be the last day of analogue broadcasting, though U.S. will start all digital broadcasting from this year.
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