First Ever Image Orthicon Broadcast: June 19, 1946

First Ever Image Orthicon Broadcast: June 19, 1946

In this photo, you see one of four RCA TK30s at the Joe Lewis – Billy Conn rematch. The fight, at Yankee Stadium, was the first televised World Heavyweight Championship bout ever, and 146,000 people watched it on TV, also setting a record for the most seen world heavyweight bout in history. The Image Orthicon tube required only a tenth of the light that Iconoscope and Orthicon tubes required. The TK30s and TK10s were also the first cameras to have lens turrets.

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