February 4 – RCA demonstrates an all-electronic color television system.
February 18 – The first Washington, D.C. – New York City telecast through AT&T corporation 's coaxial cable , in which General Dwight Eisenhower places a wreath at the base of the statue in the Lincoln Memorial and others make brief speeches, is termed a success by engineers, although Time
February 25 – The prewar U.S. 18-channel VHF allocation is officially ended in favor of a new 13-channel VHF allocation due to the appropriation of some frequencies by the military and the relocation of FM radio . Only five of the old channels are the same as new channels in terms of frequency and none have the same number as before.
April 22 – CBS transmits a Technicolor movie short and color slides by coaxial cable from Manhattan to Washington (332 kilometers) and return.
June 7 – The BBC Television Service begins broadcasting again for the first time since 1939. The first words heard are "Good afternoon everybody. How are you? Do you remember me, Jasmine Bligh ?". Twenty minutes later, the Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Gala Premiere , last programme transmitted seven years earlier at the start of World War II , is reshown.
June 19 – The first televised heavyweight boxing title fight between Joe Louis and Billy Conn is broadcast from Yankee Stadium . The fight is seen by 141,000 people, the largest television audience to see a boxing match to this date.
July 7 – Broadcasting of the BBC's children's programme For The Children
August 4 – Children's puppet "Muffin the Mule " debuts in an episode of the series For the Children . He is so popular he is given his own show later that same year.
September 6 – Chicago's WBKB-TV (now WBBM-TV ) commences broadcasting as the first U.S. television station outside the Eastern Time Zone .
September 15 – DuMont Television Network begins broadcasting regularly in the United States .
October 2 – The first television network soap opera , Faraway Hill
October 22 – Telecrime Telecrimes .
December 24 – The first Christmas church service is telecast, Grace Episcopal Church in New York, on WABD.
Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo founds a company, which would later become Sony .
Zoomar introduces the first professional zoom lens for television cameras.
The first postwar television sets are released by the companies RCA , DuMont , Crosley , and Belmont.
Series
Debut
Ended
Picture Page October 8, 1936
1939
1946
1952
Starlight November 3, 1936
1939
1946
1949
For The Children April 24, 1937
1939
July 7, 1946
1950
Telecrime August 10, 1938
July 25, 1939
October 22, 1946
November 25, 1946
Kaleidoscope November 2, 1946
1953
Pinwright's Progress November 29, 1946
May 16, 1947
Muffin the Mule 1946
1955
Paging You 1946
1948
Series
Debut
Ended
Network
Boxing From St. Nicholas Arena 1946
1948
NBC
You Be the Judge 1946
194?
CBS
See What You Know 1946
1949
CBS
Hour Glass May 9, 1946
March 1947
NBC
Face to Face June 9, 1946
January 26, 1947
NBC
Geographically Speaking June 9, 1946
October 1947
NBC
Cash and Carry June 20, 1946
July 1, 1947
Dumont
I Love to Eat August 30, 1946
1947
NBC
Play the Game September 24, 1946
December 17, 1946
Dumont
Faraway Hill October 2, 1946
December 18, 1946
Dumont
You Are an Artist November 1, 1946
1950
NBC
Gillette Cavalcade of Sports November 8, 1946
June 24, 1960
NBC
Let's Rhumba 1946
1947
NBC
Television Screen Magazine 1946
1949
NBC
Campus Hoopla 1946
1947
NBC
Western Movie
1946
1947
Dumont
January 5 – Diane Keaton , actress
January 19 – Dolly Parton , country singer and actress
January 20 – David Lynch , director and actor, Twin Peaks
January 24 – Michael Ontkean , Canadian actor, The Rookies Twin Peaks
January 28 – Don Reo , producer
February 1
February 2 – Blake Clark , actor, Home Improvement Boy Meets World
February 7 – Pete Postlethwaite , English actor (died 2011)
February 8 – Alex Diakun , actor
February 13 – Joe Estevez , actor
February 17 – Lynne Moody , actress, Roots
February 20
February 21
March 5 – Michael Warren , actor, Hill Street Blues
March 6 – Martin Kove , actor, Cagney & Lacey
March 7
March 12
March 15 – Howard E. Scott , singer
March 17 – Harold Ray Brown , singer
March 21 – Timothy Dalton , Welsh actor, Penny Dreadful
March 26 – Johnny Crawford , actor, The Rifleman
April 5 – Jane Asher , English actress
April 8 – Tim Thomerson , actor and comedian
April 10 – David Angell , screenwriter and television producer (died 2001)
April 12 – Ed O'Neill , actor, Married... with Children Modern Family
April 19 – Tim Curry , English actor and singer, It The Wild Thornberrys
April 23 – Blair Brown , actress (The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd Fringe )
April 24 – Phil Robertson , American professional hunter
May 1 – Joanna Lumley , English actress, Absolutely Fabulous
May 3 – Greg Gumbel , TV sportscaster
May 7 – Michael Rosen , English TV presenter
May 9 – Candice Bergen , actress, Murphy Brown Boston Legal
May 19 – André the Giant , professional wrestler (died 1993)
May 20 – Cher , singer and actress, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
May 28 – Gladys Knight , singer
May 31 – Maeve Kinkead , soap opera actress
June 1 – Brian Cox , actor
June 14 – Donald Trump , TV host and former president of the United States
June 19 – Jennifer Darling , actress, The Six Million Dollar Man The Bionic Woman
June 20 – Bob Vila , TV host
June 23 – Ted Shackelford , actor, Knots Landing
June 28
July 6
July 7 – Joe Spano , actor, Hill Street Blues NCIS
July 9
July 13 – Cheech Marin , actor and comedian, Nash Bridges
July 14 – Vincent Pastore , actor, The Sopranos
July 21 – Mel Damski , director
July 22 – Danny Glover , actor and director
July 28 – Linda Kelsey , actress, Lou Grant
August 5 – Erika Slezak , actress, One Life to Live
August 10 – James Reynolds , actor, Days of Our Lives
August 14
August 16 – Lesley Ann Warren , actress and singer, Mission: Impossible
August 19 – Bill Clinton , politician
August 20 – Connie Chung , journalist
August 26 – Mark Snow , composer
August 30 – Peggy Lipton , actress, The Mod Squad Twin Peaks
September 6 – Loudon Wainwright III , actor
September 25 – Felicity Kendal , English actress, Rosemary and Thyme [ 3]
September 24 – David Anspaugh , director
September 28 – Jeffrey Jones , actor, Deadwood
September 29 – Patricia Hodge , English actress, Miranda
October 3 - Biff Henderson , American comedian
October 4 – Susan Sarandon , actress
October 8 – Lynne Adams , actress
October 10
October 11 – Bob Warman , presenter
October 13 – Demond Wilson , actor, Sanford and Son
October 14 – Katy Manning , English actress
October 15 – John Getz , actor
October 16
October 18 – Howard Shore , Canadian composer
October 26 – Pat Sajak , game show host, Wheel of Fortune
October 27 – Ivan Reitman , screenwriter (died 2022)
October 31 – Stephen Rea , Irish actor
November 2 – Richard Newman , Voice actor
November 4
November 6
November 20 – Judy Woodruff , broadcast journalist
November 25 – Marc Brown , author and creator of Arthur
November 28 – Joe Dante , actor
December 1 – Jonathan Katz , actor
December 14
December 16 – Terence Knox , actor, St. Elsewhere Tour of Duty
December 17 – Eugene Levy , actor
December 18 – Steven Spielberg , American director
December 19 – Robert Urich , actor, Vega$ Spenser for Hire
December 20 – Dick Wolf , television producer
December 23 – Susan Lucci , actress, All My Children
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