The first television broadcast took place in 1925. It was a done with a grey scale image in a 30-line vertically scanned format, at five pictures per second using a ventriloquist’s dummy nicknamed “Stooky Bill”. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird
WTF Fun Fact – First TV Broadcast With Stooky Bill
