Crossing the Atlantic

When Crown Princess Martha (Sofia Helin) and her children arrive in the United States , the year is 1940. The Norwegian Ambassador to the United States, Wilhelm Morgenstierne (Trond Teigen) greets her at the hotel in New York, he tells her the press is eager to greet her. When she expresses alarm, he tells her that the arrival of the Norwegian Crown Princess and her family is a big event, and "All the major TV and radio stations want to over it. And the newspapers." In 1940, there were only two television stations in operation in the United States, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Schenectady, New York, and neither of them aired regular programming until 1941. There was no "major TV station" in the US until 1947, when NBC began to broadcast network programming.