Compagnie Générale de Télévision

The Compagnie Générale de Télévision was a French television company founded on 6 December 1931 in Le Havre by the inventor Henri de France. It made television sets with a vertical definition of 60 lines. In February 1932 de France made several transmissions over a distance of 7 km from the Radio-Normandie station in Fécamp, and the signals were received by a few people located more than 100 km away. In October 1932 he reached a definition of 120 lines. The company belongs to the earliest years of French television, a line of work that later led de France to the 819 line French standard and to the SECAM colour television system, which he patented in 1956 and which the second French channel adopted for its colour service on 1 October 1967. This entry rests on the biography of its founder, which is the only page found that describes the company.