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Overview of the events of 1946 in television
The year 1946 in television involved some significant events.
Below is a list of television -related events during 1946.
Events
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 magazine calls it "as blurred as an early Chaplin movie."
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 is resumed, one of the few pre-war programmes to resume after reintroduction of the service.
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 , is broadcast by DuMont.
October 22 – Telecrime , the first television crime series from the 1930s, is resumed by the BBC, retitled 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.
Debuts
Television shows
Series
Debut
Ended
Picture Page (UK)
October 8, 1936
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Starlight (UK)
November 3, 1936
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For The Children (UK)
April 24, 1937
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July 7, 1946
1950
Telecrime (UK)
August 10, 1938
July 25, 1939
October 22, 1946
November 25, 1946
Thrills and Chills from Everywere
August 27, 1941
June 4, 1946
The Voice of Firestone Televues
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1963
Missus Goes A Shopping
August 1, 1944
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The World in Your Home
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Boxing From St. Nicholas Arena
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You Be the Judge
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194?
See What You Know
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1949
Hour Glass
May 9, 1946
March 1947
Face to Face
June 9, 1946
January 26, 1947
Geographically Speaking
June 9, 1946
October 1947
Cash and Carry
June 20, 1946
July 1, 1947
Serving Through Science
May 1945
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I Love to Eat
August 30, 1946
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Play the Game
September 24, 1946
December 17, 1946
Kaleidoscope (UK)
November 2, 1946
1953
Pinwright's Progress (UK)
November 29, 1946
May 16, 1947
Faraway Hill
October 2, 1946
December 18, 1946
You Are an Artist
November 1, 1946
1950
Gillette Cavalcade of Sports
November 8, 1946
June 24, 1960
Let's Rhumba
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Television Screen Magazine
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Campus Hoopla
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Muffin the Mule (UK)
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Paging You (UK)
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Programs ending
Births
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
February 1
February 2 – Blake Clark , actor, Home Improvement , Boy Meets World
February 7 – Pete Postlethwaite , English actor (died 2011)
February 17 – Lynne Moody , actress, Roots
February 20
February 21 – Tyne Daly , actress, Cagney & Lacey
March 5 – Michael Warren , actor, Hill Street Blues
March 6 – Martin Kove , actor, Cagney & Lacey
March 12 – Frank Welker , actor, Scooby-Doo
March 26 – Johnny Crawford , actor, The Rifleman
March 21 – Timothy Dalton , Welsh actor, Penny Dreadful
April 5 – Jane Asher , English actress
April 8 – Tim Thomerson , actor and comedian
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, Fringe
May 1 – Joanna Lumley , English actress, Absolutely Fabulous
May 9 – Candice Bergen , actress, Murphy Brown , Boston Legal
May 20 – Cher , singer and actress, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour
May 31 – Maeve Kinkead , soap opera actress
June 19 – Jennifer Darling , actress, The Six Million Dollar Man , The Bionic Woman
June 23 – Ted Shackelford , actor, Knots Landing
June 28 – Gilda Radner , actress and comedian, Saturday Night Live (died 1989)
July 6
July 7 – Joe Spano , actor, Hill Street Blues , NCIS
July 13 – Cheech Marin , actor and comedian, Nash Bridges
July 14 – Vincent Pastore , actor, The Sopranos
July 22 – Danny Glover , actor and director
July 28 – Linda Kelsey , actress, Lou Grant
August 6 – 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 30 – Peggy Lipton , actress, The Mod Squad , Twin Peaks (died 2019)
September 25 – Felicity Kendal , English actress, Rosemary and Thyme
September 28 – Jeffrey Jones , actor, Deadwood
September 29 – Patricia Hodge , English actress, Miranda
October 4 – Susan Sarandon , actress
October 13 – Demond Wilson , actor, Sanford and Son
October 14 – Katy Manning , English actress
October 15 – John Getz , actor
October 16 – Suzanne Somers , actress, Three's Company , Step by Step
October 26 – Pat Sajak , game show host, Wheel of Fortune
November 4 – Les Lannom , actor, musician, Harry O
November 6
December 14 – Patty Duke , actress, The Patty Duke Show (died 2016)
December 16 – Terence Knox , actor, St. Elsewhere , Tour of Duty
December 19 – Robert Urich , actor, Vega$ , Spenser for Hire (died 2002)
December 23 – Susan Lucci , actress, All My Children
Deaths
References