In March 1959, at the initiative of the producer, broadcaster and radical leader Jorge Enrique Gravier, the first closed-circuit TV transmission was carried out in Neuquén capital, with a minimum range of 200 meters.
In March 1959, surely very few residents of our valley had the opportunity to set their eyes on the local television screen. At the initiative of the producer, broadcaster and radical leader Jorge Enrique Gravier, born in the Federal Capital, Neuquén by adoption, whose name is the identity of a street in the Santa Genoveva neighborhood, was carried out in the capital of the Province, the first closed-circuit TV transmission, with a minimum range of 200 meters.
The launch took place from the facilities of the historic Cooperadora “Conrado Villegas”. The image that illustrates this note corresponds to the reference event, and in it appear from left to right, Evaristo Del Egido, Miguel Sánchez, Agustín Orejas, the cameraman Martín García, Gravier, his wife Marina Ibars, José Vicuña, Horacio Bravo and Oscar Pablo Gaviglio. For the most part, people linked to the LU5 station in Neuquén.
Later, similar transmissions were made from the commercial premises of Badillo Hnos. and Vaxhaco SA of Cipolletti and Roca, respectively.
Meanwhile, this March 31 – what a coincidence of the third month of the year, with respect to what happened between us – marks the 79th anniversary of the day that the Buenos Aires attended a television show for the first time. Those people from Buenos Aires were no more than two hundred, gathered on the ninth floor of the headquarters of the Automóvil Club Argentino where a precarious receiver had been installed that blurredly captured the images transmitted from the Experimental Institute of Television. That technical school was located at 1800 Corrientes Avenue, regarding two kilometers from the ACA.
The invention of television was conceived in the United States in the 1920s and although its development suffered delays as a result of World War II (1939-1945), it is true that auspicious public demonstrations had taken place before the start of that war. .
That March 31, 1944, the spectators of the Automobile Club saw reflected on the receiving screen the image of the engineer Eduardo Grinberg, president of the Experimental Television Institute, and they heard him define that transmission as “the inaugural act”, in our country, of the most modern means of communication.
Practically, No further advances were made until 1950, when a pharmacy products firm introduced the first North American equipment, placed at the service of a major medical congress. From the Faculty of Medicine of Buenos Aires, the cameras televised surgical interventions that the scientists observed through receivers located in the Plaza Hotel.
A few days later, the same equipment was used to provide the first “show” on Argentine television: it was animated by the well-remembered announcer Carlos Ginés, the soloist Lía Cimaglia Espinoza played the piano, and the billiard player Pedro Leopoldo Carrera offered an exhibition. The channels were not yet born.
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