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Overview of the events of 1940 in television
The year 1940 in television involved some significant events.
Below is a list of television -related events during 1940.
Events January – The FCC has public hearings concerning television .
February 25 – The first ice hockey game is televised in the United States, the New York Rangers vs Montreal Canadiens , from Madison Square Garden on W2XBS-TV.
February 28 – The first basketball game is televised, from Madison Square Garden ; Fordham University vs the University of Pittsburgh .
March 10 – The Metropolitan Opera broadcast for the first time from NBC studios at Rockefeller Center an abridged performance of the first act of Pagliacci
March 15 – RCA reduces the price of television sets.
May 21 – Bell Telephone Laboratories transmits a 441-line video signal, with a bandwidth of 2.7 MHz, by coaxial cable from New York to Philadelphia and back.
June – W2XBS in New York (NBC ) covers the Republican National Convention from Philadelphia , Pennsylvania for 33 hours, during a five-day period. The signal is transmitted via coaxial cable .
August 29 – Peter Carl Goldmark of CBS announces his invention of a color television system.
September 3 – CBS resumes its television transmissions with the first demonstration of high definition color TV, by W2XAB, transmitting from the Chrysler Building .
Births January 19 – Mike Reid , English actor and comedian (died 2007)
January 22 – John Hurt , English actor (died 2017)
January 27 – James Cromwell , actor
February 2 – David Jason , English actor
February 12 – Ralph Bates , English actor (died 1991)
February 22 – Judy Cornwell , English actress
February 27 – Howard Hesseman , actor, WKRP in Cincinnati
March 7 – Daniel J. Travanti , actor, Hill Street Blues
March 8 – Susan Clark , actress, Webster
March 10 – Chuck Norris , actor, Walker, Texas Ranger
March 26 - James Caan , actor, Las Vegas
April 17 – Chuck Menville , American television animator and writer (died 1992)
May 5 – Lance Henriksen , actor
June 1 – Rene Auberjonois , actor
June 20 – John Mahoney , English-born actor, Frasier
June 21 – Mariette Hartley , actress
July 13 – Patrick Stewart , English actor, Star Trek: The Next Generation
July 18 – James Brolin , actor, Marcus Welby, M.D.
July 22 – Alex Trebek , game show host, Jeopardy!
August 3 – Martin Sheen , actor, The West Wing
August 19 – Jill St. John , actress
August 22 – Valerie Harper , actress, The Mary Tyler Moore Show Rhoda
September 5 – Raquel Welch , actress
September 12 – Linda Gray , actress, Dallas
October 19 – Michael Gambon , Irish-born British actor
December 11 – Donna Mills , actress, Knots Landing
December 21 – Arvi Lind , Finnish newsreader
