''Radiolympia'', also known as the Radio Show, was a pioneering exhibition of radio equipment, latterly television equipment, held annually at

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in London, England, in the 1920s to 1940s, except for a period of interruption during

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. The first such exhibition was held in 1926. On 26 August 1936, the first high-definition standard (Baird 240 lines) television transmission was made in a test by the

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from the exhibition. The day after, the Marconi-EMI (

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) system was used. The record attendance was 238,000 in 1934.

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