As a result of daily reporting in almost all the German media, the radio exhibition and the showcased technology receives a large amount of attention around the globe.

[3] German physicist and inventor Manfred von Ardenne Ardenne gave the world's first public demonstration of a fully electronic television system using a cathode ray tube for both transmission (using flying-spot image scans, not a camera) and reception, at the 1931 show.

Ordered by Joseph Goebbels, designed by Otto Griessing, sold by Gustav Seibt, it was presented at the tenth Berliner Funkausstellung on 18 August 1933,[6] its price fixed at 76 Reichsmark (RM).

In 1938 the DKE 38 (Deutscher Kleinempfänger 38, i.e. German miniature receiver 1938) followed, the price fixed at 35 RM.

Lou Ottens and his team at the Philips factory in Hasselt, at the 1963 show, on Friday 30 August.