10 facts on Soviet television - Russian Newspaper

October 1, 1931 in Moscow, the full-fledged television – have aired the first TV show with the sound on medium wave.

the anniversary of national television, “RG” has chosen some interesting facts about the Soviet broadcasting.

Lunch

On weekdays, Soviet television led its broadcast mainly in the morning and evening – from 6-8 o’clock in the morning until midnight or 23:00. And during the day, usually between 13:00 and 16:00, when the Soviet worker was at the place of the work in programs advancing break. At this time the “first program” showed the clock, and the “second” – the adjusting table.

Editions

the creation of programs of various kinds on Soviet television does the Chief Editor – “Children and Youth”, “information”, and others. Among them were sufficiently specific to modern television, such as chief editor of folk art, maintains a presence on the TV culture of the many peoples of the USSR.

makeup

At the dawn of Soviet television announcer before the esters used green lipstick. It was a common practice of the era of black-and-white television: more green than red lipstick stood out in passing through the common image red filters.

At Bedtime

night, when the program schedule coming to an end, the screen for a few minutes, a special reminder – a flashing “Do not forget to turn off the TV,” which was accompanied by an unpleasant sound. Dozed off at the screen the audience was not easy to ignore the call.

Mechanical TV

Early television in the Soviet Union was based entirely on electricity and used the technology of mechanical television. She initially did not involve even audio broadcasting, and in that silent format were given the first experimental television signals May 1, 1931. Finally, the mechanical television in favor of electric abandoned April 1, 1941.

a nice little

After running television broadcasting in Moscow, Leningrad and Odessa, esters were not that common. For example, in Moscow, the transmission went out only 12 times a month, and their duration was 60 minutes. After the war, in December 1945, Moscow audiences first in Europe to have pleased the regular broadcasting. And it has become a daily since the beginning of 1955.

Protracted breaks

In the first half of the XX century, the TV signal is often interrupted for quite a long time. At the end of 1933 stood at two months of broadcasting in Moscow – this time conducted experiments in the transition to electric television. Leningrad television disconnected during the siege, and the Moscow television center interrupted aired for six months in 1948-1949, due to the reconstruction.

TV Guide

Soviet television almost did not use common nowadays the term “channel”. Instead, the Soviet viewer can switch between “programs.” Only in November 1989, the program has replaced Moscow Moscow TV channel, and later appeared Ostankino Channel One, RTR, 2×2 and others.

wide choice

Until the mid 50′s Central Television was limited to a single program. In 1956 appeared “The second program,” in 1965 – an educational “third”, and after two and a half years – “The Fourth.” Subsequently used eight channels – they were doubles main programs, adjusted to the local time other time zones.

Commercial Break

Advertising existed on Soviet television and until it appears in the usual form in the mid-80′s. Only she was not in between programs, as well as stand-alone programs, called “advertising” or “More good goods” and something reminiscent of “Shops on the couch”.