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oct 31, 1949 - Iowa's First television broadcast

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Davenport's WOC-TV flimed the state's first broadcast, which reached roughly 400 homes in the Quad Cities. Before this, TV content had been shot elsewhere and played on Iowa televisions, but had not been generated in the state.

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oct 31, 1949
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~ 76 years ago