The FIRST Program Guide - Issued June 30 to July 5th, 1941. The first two TV stations licensed for commercial broadcasting were New Yorks WNBT (which later became WNBC) and WCBW. They were both licensed on July 1, 1941. Earlier broadcasting was considered 'experimental'.
Definition of gage. 1  1 : a token of defiance; specifically : a glove or cap cast on the ground to be taken up by an opponent as a pledge of combat. 2  2 : something deposited as a pledge of performance.
Gage died on the Isle of Portland on April 2, 1787, his wife surviving him by almost 37 years. He was also survived by Henry Gage, 3rd Viscount Gage and another Thomas Gage, a young relative who would go on to achieve small fame in the field of botany.