1943 in television

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The year 1943 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1943.

Events

May 8 - Opening of Paris Télévision - Fernsehsender Paris, a channel operated by German occupation authorities (Kurt Hinzmann, former director of Fernsehsender „Paul Nipkow“) after an agreement between Telefunken and Compagnie des Compteurs, with a (German) 441-line standard. Local French programmes and Fernsehsender „Paul Nipkow“ programmes were interlaced.
June - Work is begun for the U.S. Army Air Forces to develop a remotely-controlled glide bomb guided by a radio receiver and a television transmitter using a 625-line iconoscope tube. The first are completed in July and tested in August.
December 23 - The first complete opera, Hansel and Gretel, is telecast, by WRGB in Schenectady.
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is formed. Its television network debuts in 1948.
Germany experiments with a flying bomb guided by a television camera, created by Fernseh, using both the Superikonoscope and the Farnsworth image dissector.

The Voice of Firestone Televues (1943-1947; renamed The Voice of Firestone, running from 1949 to 1963).

Series	Debut	Ended
The Voice of Firestone Televues	1943	1947
The Voice of Firestone Televues	1949	1963

January 1 - Don Novello, actor, Saturday Night Live.
January 13 - Richard Moll, actor, Night Court.
January 23 - Gil Gerard, actor.
January 24 - Sharon Tate, actress, model (d. 1969)
January 28 - John Beck, actor.
February 27 - Mary Frann, actress (d. 1998).
March 18 - Kevin Dobson, actor.
March 29 - Eric Idle, actor, comedian.
May 24 - Gary Burghoff, actor.
May 27 - Bruce Weitz, actor.
May 31 - Sharon Gless, actress.
June 16 - Joan Van Ark, actress.
July 3 - Kurtwood Smith, actor.
July 31 - Susan Flannery, actress.
August 2 - Max Wright, actor.
October 8 - Chevy Chase, actor, comedian, Saturday Night Live.
October 27 - Carmen Argenziano, actor, Stargate SG-1.
November 20 - Veronica Hamel, actress.
December 23 - Harry Shearer, actor, Saturday Night Live, This Is Spinal Tap, The Simpsons.
December 28 - Richard Whiteley, presenter (d. 2005).