1946 in television

In the United States, only the DuMont Network and NBC were broadcasting in the evening in 1946. DuMont ran a Western movie on Sunday night for an hour, other programming for an hour on Tuesday, and half hours on Wednesday and Thursday nights. NBC ran an hour of programming on Sunday, two hours on Thursday, and the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports on Monday and Friday nights, with an additional hour on Fridays.

Table of contents

1 Hit Television Shows
2 Other Popular Television Shows
3 Events
4 Births
5 Deaths

Hit Television Shows

Other Popular Television Shows

May 9 - The first variety show premieres, Hour Glass, on NBC.
October 2 - The first television network soap opera, Faraway Hill, airs on the DuMont Network.

Events

February 4 ÃÂ RCA demonstrates all-electronic color television system.
February 18 - The first Washington, DC - New York City telecast through AT&T coaxial cable is termed success by engineers and viewers.
April 22 - CBS color television program is successfully transmitted over a 450-mile coaxial cable link from New York to Washington
June 7 - The BBC begins broadcasting again, and reshows the Mickey Mouse cartoon, that had been interrupted seven years earlier at the start of the World War II.
June 19 - The first televised heavyweight boxing title fight between Joe Louis and Billy Conn is broadcast from Yankee Stadium. The fight was seen by 141,000 people, the largest television audience to see a fight.
July 7 - First BBC TV programming for children is broadcast, titled "For The Children".
December 24 - The first church service is telecast, Grace Episcopal Church in New York, on WABD.
Tokyo Tushin Kogyo founded, which would later become Sony
Zoomar introduces the first professional zoom lens

Births

January 20 - David Lynch, film director
April 5 - Jane Asher, actress
June 28 - Gilda Radner, actress, comedian, Saturday Night Live
September 29 - Patricia Hodge, actress
November 23 - Diana Quick, actress