1931 in television

The year 1931 in television involved some significant events.
Below is a list of television-related events during 1931.

Events

May 1 – The first wedding is broadcast by television, on New York City's W2XCR.
June 3 – First television outside broadcast of a sporting event: Baird televises the Epsom Derby horse race in England.
July 21 – CBS's station W2XAB begins broadcasting 28 hours a week in New York City.
August – At the Berlin Radio Show, Manfred von Ardenne gives the world's first public demonstration of a television system using a cathode-ray tube for both transmission and reception. Ardenne never develops a camera tube, using the CRT instead as a flying-spot scanner to scan slides and film.
October 9 – Canada's first television station, VE9EC, begins broadcasting in Montreal, Quebec. VE9EC is owned jointly by radio station CKAC and the newspaper company La Presse.
October 30 – NBC installs a television transmitter on top of the Empire State Building.
November 1 – Television images are transmitted from JOAK radio station in Tokyo, Japan by Professors Kenjiro Takayagani and Tomomasa Nakashima. The still images comprise 80 lines at 20 frames per second.
December 22 – NBC begins broadcasting experimental test transmissions from the Empire State Building transmitter.
December 23 – Don Lee Broadcasting begins broadcasting low-definition electromechanical television from the station W6XAO in Los Angeles, broadcasting one hour of film footage, six days per week.

Debuts

Exhibition Boxing Bouts premieres on the experimental W2XAB Hints for Swimmers premieres on the experimental W2XAB Piano Lessons premieres on the experimental W2XAB.The Television Ghost premieres on the experimental W2XAB.Television Today premieres on the experimental W2XAB.

W2XAB debuts music segments with Connie Boswell, Doris Sharp, Elliot Jaffee, Grace Yeager, Harriet Lee, and Helen Haynes, among others.
W2XCD debuts a semi-regular segment with singer Alice Remsen.

Births

January 4 – Rosemary Prinz, U.S. actress
January 10 – Marlene Sanders, television news correspondent
January 11 – Peter Baldwin, actor
January 13
*Charles Nelson Reilly, actor, game show panelist
*Rip Taylor, comedian
January 15 – Thomas Hoving, American museum executive
January 17 – James Earl Jones, actor
January 19 – Robert MacNeil, news reporter
February 6 – Rip Torn, actor
February 8 – James Dean, actor, East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, Giant
February 13 – Geoff Edwards, game show host
February 24 – Dominic Chianese, actor
February 28 – Gavin MacLeod, actor, The Love Boat
March 11 – Rupert Murdoch, media mogul
March 20 – Hal Linden, actor, Barney Miller
March 22 – William Shatner, actor, Star Trek
March 26 – Leonard Nimoy, actor, Star Trek
March 27 – David Janssen, actor, The Fugitive
April 6 – Ivan Dixon, actor, Hogan's Heroes
April 12 – Betty Clooney, singer
April 14 – Kenneth Cope, English actor, Coronation Street, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
April 26 – Bernie Brillstein, agent and producer
May 15 – Ken Venturi, golfer
May 16 – Jack Dodson, actor, The Andy Griffith Show
May 18
*Robert Morse, actor
*George Shapiro, producer
*Don Martin, cartoonist
May 23 – Barbara Barrie, actress, Barney Miller
June 8 – Dana Wynter, actress
June 14 – Marla Gibbs, actress, The Jeffersons, 227
June 20 – Olympia Dukakis, actress, Tales of the City
June 26 – Marvin Minoff, American film and television producer
July 1 – Leslie Caron, actress
July 6 – Della Reese, actress, singer, Touched by an Angel
July 8 – Roone Arledge, producer
July 10 – Nick Adams, actor
July 26 – Robert Colbert, actor, The Time Tunnel
July 27 – Jerry Van Dyke, actor, Coach
July 28 – Darryl Hickman, actor
August 15 – Janice Rule, actress
August 23 – Barbara Eden, actress, I Dream of Jeannie
August 25 – Regis Philbin, talk show host
September 1 – Beano Cook, American television personality
September 4 – Mitzi Gaynor, singer, actress
September 9 – Barbara Lyon, singer, actress
September 10 – Philip Baker Hall, actor
September 11 – Bill Simpson, actor
September 12
*Bill McKinney, actor
*Ian Holm, actor
September 13 – Barbara Bain, actress, Mission: Impossible
September 17 – Anne Bancroft, actress
September 19 – Ray Danton, actor
September 21 – Larry Hagman, actor, I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas
September 24 – Howard West, TV producer
September 30 – Angie Dickinson, actress, Police Woman
October 23
*Jim Bunning, baseball player and politician
*Diana Dors, actress
October 31 – Dan Rather, news reporter
November 5 – Reese Schonfeld, news reporter
November 8 – Morley Safer, news reporter
November 12 – Dick Clair, writer
November 30 – Jack Ging, actor
December 3 – Jaye P. Morgan, game show panelist
December 9 – Paddi Edwards, actress
December 11 – Rita Moreno, actress
December 23 – Ronnie Schell, comedian
December 28 – Martin Milner, actor, ''Adam-12''