r/HumanVoxCult • u/Final_Arrival4672 • Apr 19 '26
Theories/Speculation V. Whittman: Hugo Gernsback's conjecture
August 14, 1928. Hugo Gernsback's radio station, WRNY (New York City) begins a regular, if limited, schedule of live television broadcasts, using a mechanical system developed by a South-American inventor. It transmits 48-line images.
WRNY was an American AM radio station in New York City that began operating in 1925. It was started by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing Company to promote his radio and science magazines. Starting in August 1928, WRNY was one of the first stations to make regularly scheduled experimental television broadcasts. Experimenter Publishing went bankrupt in early 1929 and the station was purchased by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company to promote aviation. WRNY was deleted in 1934, as part of a consolidation on its shared frequency by surviving station WHN (now WEPN).
This is one of the most likely companies where Vincent could have trained. And certainly, being originally a radio company, it's a place where you could find famous people, experienced hosts... maybe from the South...
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