gq: Initially, the station's range was officially a 40 kilometres radius of the Alexandra Palace transmitter—in practice, however, transmissions could be picked up a good deal further away, and on one occasion in 1938 were picked up by engineers at RCA in New York, who were experimenting with a British television set.
Question: How far from its studio could the BBC's broadcast originally reach? Question: In what year were BBC broadcasts seen in the United States? Question: What company did the U.S. engineers who saw the BBC broadcast work for? Question: What did the RCA employees use in order to receive the BBC signal?