1948 in television

The year 1948 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1948.

Events

• March 20 – Renowned Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini makes his television debut, conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in the U.S. in a program featuring the works of Richard Wagner.
• April 3 – Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is played on television in its entirety for the first time in a concert featuring Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The chorus is conducted by Robert Shaw.
• June 21 – The first network telecast of political conventions from Philadelphia.
• July 29 – The BBC Television Service begins its coverage of the 1948 Olympic Games in London by broadcasting the opening ceremony. From now until the closing ceremony on August 14 the BBC will broadcast an average three and a half hours a day of live coverage from the Games, using a special coaxial cable linking the main venue at Wembley Stadium to the television service's base at Alexandra Palace. This is the most ambitious sustained outside broadcast yet attempted by the BBC, but is completed without serious problems.
• July 30 – Professional wrestling premieres during prime-time on the DuMont Network.
• August 15 – The first network nightly newscast, CBS-TV News, debuts on CBS with Douglas Edwards as journalist.
• November 4 Moscow TV facility adopted a new 625 line PAL television standard.
• November 29 – Roller Derby is broadcast from NY on the CBS television network.
• November 29 – The television puppet show series Kukla, Fran and Ollie is transferred to the NBC Midwest Network.
• CBS begins network programming.
• ABC establishes its first television station in New York.
• Television manufacturing begins in Canada.
• Telecasts of the NBC Symphony Orchestra, begin until 1954.

Debuts

• January 5 – Television Newsreel (UK) is first shown on the BBC Television Service (1948–1954).
• June 8 – Milton Berle becomes the first United States television star with the debut of Texaco Star Theater (later The Milton Berle Show) broadcast by NBC (1948–1953).
• June 20 – Toast of the Town, a variety series hosted by Ed Sullivan, premieres on CBS, with guests Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis (later renamed, The Ed Sullivan Show) (1948–1971).
• July 1 – Mark Goodson's first game series Winner Take All premieres on CBS (1948–1952).
• August 10 – Candid Microphone (renamed Candid Camera in 1949) debuts on ABC (1948 – present).
• The Adventures of Oky Doky premieres (1948–1949).
• Amanda (1948–1949).
• The Bigelow Show premieres (1948–1949).
• Champagne and Orchids (1948–1949).
• Child's World debuts (1948–1949).
• Actors Studio (1948–1950).
• Cartoon Teletales (1948–1950).
• The Alan Dale Show premieres (1948–1951).
• Club Seven (1948–1951).

Television programs

Ending this year

• The World in Your Home (1944–1948).
• Paging You (1946–1948)
• Eye Witness (1947–1948).
• In the Kelvinator Kitchen (1947–1948).

Births

• January 5 – Ted Lange, actor, director, The Love Boat
• January 14 – Carl Weathers, actor
• January 29 – Marc Singer, Canadian actor
• February 22 – John Ashton, actor
• February 28 – Bernadette Peters, actress and singer
  • Mercedes Ruehl, actress
• March 20 – John de Lancie, actor
• March 31 – Rhea Perlman, actress, Cheers
• April 12 – Jeremy Beadle, English presenter (died 2008)
• June 2 – Jerry Mathers, actor Leave It to Beaver
• June 19 – Phylicia Rashad, actress, The Cosby Show
• July 28 – Sally Struthers, actress, All in the Family
• September 7 – Susan Blakely, actress
• September 13 – Nell Carter, actress, singer (died. 2003)
• September 17 – John Ritter, actor, comedian (died 2003)
• September 24 – Phil Hartman, Canadian actor, comedian (died 1998)
• September 27 – Michele Dotrice, English actress
• October 2 – Avery Brooks, actor, musician
• October 17 – George Wendt, actor, Cheers
• October 29 – Kate Jackson, actress
• November 1 – Anna Stuart, actress
• November 10 – Vincent Schiavelli, actor (died 2005)
• November 27 – James Avery, actor

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