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.
General Gage, an english General, was born in Firle, Sussex, the second son of the first Viscount Gage. In 1728, Gage began attending the prestigious Westminster School where he met such figures as John Burgoyne, Richard Howe, Francis Bernard, and George Sackville.