50th anniversary of the first videotape broadcast

On 30th November 1956 the first video recording was broadcast from CBS Television City, in Hollywood.

It was a tape of Douglas Edwards reading the news and was recorded and played on an Ampex Mark IV Video Tape Recorder.


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