In the book I mentioned recently (above), Keith Miller refers to the cricket writer Jim Swanton.
He writes of him, inter alia: "... with his friend Johnny Woodcock, he became the first to assist in the television of an Australian-played series".
How sad it is that we've all but lost that way of using the word "television" to mean "television broadcasting" or (yuk) "televising".
It's still in the dictionaries,* but no one seems to use it -- when did you last hear or read it?
And is there, perhaps, a verb lurking here -- I mean in the way that "televising" is gerundive?
I hope so: when I find it, or invent it, I'm going to use it.
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* Chambers: n the transmission by radio waves, and reproduction on a screen, of visual images.
OED: 1907 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 15 June 26292/1 Now that the photo-telegraph invented by Prof. Korn is on the eve of being introduced into general practice, we are informed of some similar inventions in the same field, all of which tend to achieve some step toward the solution of the problem of television.
