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I watched an interview with the late Betty White. The interviewer asked her about her first TV appearance.

Betty said that as a teen she was part of singing group that appeared on a "closed circuit" TV show in one of the boardrooms of the Packard Corporate Office Building in Chicago in 1939. Individuals in the lobby could watch the show on what amounted to a postage-stamp-size monitor.

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In April 1939, RCA introduced television broadcasting as we know it at the New York World's Fair. Two months earlier, a young Betty White stood in front of TV cameras for one of the first broadcasts ever transmitted on the West coast. According to Jennifer Kelshin Armstrong's book "When Women Invented Television," the broadcast took place at the Packard Motor Car Company in Downtown Los Angeles, where Packard distributor Earle C. Anthony had invented KFI radio station in 1922 to transmit between buildings. Now, Packard was putting on a test broadcast that would go down in history, and White was there to star.

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