1944 in television

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The year 1944 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1944.

Events

May 22 – The FCC increases its limits for single ownership of television stations from three to five.
May 25 – First commercial U.S. telecast by relay. Eddie Cantor is broadcast from NBC's Manhattan station WNBT to Philco's Philadelphia station WPTZ, via an automatic relay tower halfway between the two cities. (The AT&T coaxial cable between the cities is unavailable because of the war.) NBC cuts off Cantor in the middle of his rendition of the song "We're Having a Baby, My Baby and Me" when it finds some of the lyrics and his gestures "objectionable."
August 16 – Paris télévision – Fernsehsender Paris stops broadcasting. Broadcasting resumes in October 1944 under the name Télévision française with the same technical equipment.
August 16 – John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first color television picture tube. Color films are shown from a flying-spot scanner.

Series	Debut	Ended
The Voice of Firestone Televues	1943	1947
The Voice of Firestone Televues	1949	1963
Missus Goes a Shopping	August 1, 1944	1949
The World in Your Home	1944	1948