Six decades after television took Baltimore by storm, digital broadcasting is around the corner. It’s just another transmission mode. But combined with the Internet, cell phones, texting and such social networking sites as MySpace and Facebook, digitalization offers technical possibilities that will change the way people — and whole neighborhoods — interact, just as television did after 1947.
WMAR-TV was Baltimore’s first station. It went on the air Oct. 28, 1947, when only an estimated 1,600 television sets existed in the city. Excited viewers called from as far away as Arlington, Va., and Trenton, N.J., reporting they could see the test pattern.
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