1932 in television
The year 1932 in television involved some significant events.
Below is a list of television-related events during 1932.
Events
- March 9 – The U.S. Federal Radio Commission grants an operating license to Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, for the television station W9XAK.
- August 22 – The BBC starts a regular television service using John Logie Baird's 30-line system. EMI demonstrate electronic television, with as many as 3 times as many lines as Baird's mechanical system, to the BBC.
- December – René Barthélemy starts operating an experimental weekly programme of one hour with a 60-line black-and-white system "Paris Télévision".
Births
- January 3 – Dabney Coleman, actor, Buffalo Bill.
- January 12 – Des O'Connor, television personality and singer.
- January 13 – Jon Cypher, actor, Hill Street Blues.
- January 17 – Sheree North, actress.
- February 1 – John Hart, retired American television journalist
- February 2 – Robert Mandan, actor, Soap.
- February 16 – Gretchen Wyler, actress.
- February 23 – Majel Barrett, actress, Star Trek.
- February 24 – Jay Sandrich, director.
- February 26 – Johnny Cash, singer and actor, The Johnny Cash Show.
- February 27 – Elizabeth Taylor, actress.
- February 29 – Edward Faulkner, actor.
- March 2 – Paul Sand, actor.
- March 19 – Gail Kobe, actress.
- April 1 – Debbie Reynolds, actress.
- April 4 – John Clarke, actor, Days of Our Lives.
- April 25 – William Roache, actor, Coronation Street.
- April 27 – Casey Kasem, broadcast announcer, Scooby-Doo.
- April 30 – E. Duke Vincent, American television producer.
- May 13 – Gianni Boncompagni, radio and TV presenter and director.
- June 17 – Peter Lupus, actor, Mission: Impossible.
- June 22 – Prunella Scales, English actress, Fawlty Towers.
- June 28 – Pat Morita, actor, Happy Days.
- July 8 – Brian Walden, journalist, broadcaster and Member of Parliament.
- July 31 – Ted Cassidy, actor, The Addams Family.
- August 5 – Ja'Net DuBois, American actress, singer and dancer, Good Times.
- August 9 – Reginald Bosanquet, journalist and news presenter.
- August 15 – Jim Lange, game show host.
- September 3 – Eileen Brennan, actress, Private Benjamin.
- September 5 – Carol Lawrence, actress.
- September 14 – Igor Kirillov, news presenter, Tsentral'noye televideniye SSSR.
- September 25 – Charles Stanley, pastor
- September 26
- *Donna Douglas, actress, The Beverly Hillbillies.
- *Richard Herd, actor.
- September 27 – Roger C. Carmel, actor, The Mothers-in-Law.
- October 12 – Dick Gregory, actor.
- October 20 – William Christopher, actor, M*A*S*H.
- November 4 – Noam Pitlik, director.
- November 13 – Richard Mulligan, actor, Soap.
- November 20 – Richard Dawson, game show host.
- November 22 – Robert Vaughn, actor, The Man from U.N.C.L.E..
- December 18 – Roger Smith, actor, 77 Sunset Strip.
- December 20 – John Hillerman, actor, Magnum, P.I..
- December 25 – Mabel King, actress.
- December 28 – Nichelle Nichols, singer and actress, Star Trek.
- December 29 – Inga Swenson, actress, Benson.