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Events on February 25 in history

1928Feb, 25

Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a broadcast license for television from the Federal Radio Commission.

Charles Jenkins Laboratories was the enterprise headed by Charles Francis Jenkins that was granted the first commercial television license in the United States, station W3XK. The Laboratories also operated experimental station W2XCR.

Charles Jenkins Laboratories closed after Mr. Jenkins died in 1934.

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