1947 in television

The year 1947 in television involved some significant events.
Below is a list of television-related events during 1947.

Events

January 3 – Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
January 22 – The first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, KTLA, begins operation in Hollywood.
January 29 – RCA company demonstrates an all-electronic color television system using live images, to the US Federal Communications Commission.
January 30 – The FCC rejects CBS' color television system.
February 10-March 11 – BBC television service in the UK is temporarily suspended due to a national fuel crisis.
March 11 – The first successful American children's television series, Movies for Small Fry debuts on the DuMont Network.
July 16 – RCA demonstrates the world's first all-electronic color camera to the Federal Communications Commission.
September 30 – The opening game of the World Series is the first World Series game to be telecast. The 1947 World Series is watched by an estimated 3.9 million people, becoming television's first mass audience.
October 5 – The first telecast of a presidential address from the White House. President Truman speaks about the world food crisis. It is preceded by a Jell-O commercial, and features the president discussing his program for food rationing. The address is televised by WTVW-TV as part of its inaugural broadcast. It is also simulcast by radio. It was long believed that no copy of this broadcast existed, but segments are preserved on kinescope in the Library of Congress.
October 13 – The puppet show series Junior Jamboree, later known as Kukla, Fran and Ollie, premieres on WBKB in Chicago, Illinois.
November 6 – Meet the Press first appears as a local program in Washington, D.C.
November 8 – Memorial service broadcast from the Cenotaph by the BBC, using tele-recording for the first time.
The first Hollywood movie production for TV, The Public Prosecutor.
There are 250,000 television sets in use in the United States.

Debuts

March 11 – Small Fry Club
April 3 – Juvenile Jury
May – The Swift Home Service Club
May 2 – Doorway to Fame
May 7 – Kraft Television Theater on NBC, the first regularly scheduled drama series on a network
May 15 – King Cole's Birthday Party
May 21 – In the Kelvinator Kitchen
June 16 – The Walter Compton News
July 8 – Major League Baseball on NBC
July 25 – Musical Merry-Go-Round
October 13 – Junior Jamboree, on WBKB in Chicago
October 1947 – first telecording by BBC, showing black singer Adelaide Hall performing two songs with chorus and her guitar
November 18 – situation comedy Mary Kay and Johnny on Dumont network
November 19 – Missus Goes a Shopping debuts on CBS, becoming that network's first commercial daytime series.
November 20 – Meet the Press, first network telecast on NBC
November 27 – Charade Quiz
November – Swing Into Sports
December 4 – Television Playhouse
December 8 – Americana
December 27 – Puppet Television Theater, a children's television program on NBC
The Jack Eigen Show
''Café Continental''

Births

January 2 – Jack Hanna, zookeeper
January 8 – Laurie Walters, actress
January 17 - Jane Elliot, actress
January 19 - Paula Deen, chef, cookbook author, and TV personality
January 21 - Jill Eikenberry, actress
January 31
*Glynn Turman, actor
*Jonathan Banks, actor
February 2
*Farrah Fawcett, actress
*Greg Antonacci, actor
February 3 - Tonea Stewart, actress
February 4 - Dan Quayle, politician
February 20 – Peter Strauss, actor
February 24 – Edward James Olmos, actor
February 26 – Steve Melnyk, golfer
February 28 - Stephanie Beacham, actress
March 1 – Alan Thicke, actor
March 6 – Rob Reiner, actor, producer and director
March 7 – Richard Lawson, actor
March 12 – Mitt Romney, politician
March 19 – Glenn Close, actress
March 24 - Alan Sugar, English television presenter
March 25 - Elton John, English singer, pianist and composer
April 2 - Sam Anderson, actor, Perfect Strangers, Angel, Lost
April 4
*Luke Halpin, actor
*Ray Fosse, baseball player
April 6 – John Ratzenberger, actor
April 11 - Meshach Taylor, actor
April 12
*Dan Lauria, actor
*David Letterman, comedian and talk show host
*Wayne Northrop, actor
April 16 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, NBA basketball player
April 18
*Dorothy Lyman, actress
*Cindy Pickett, actress
*James Woods, actor
April 19 - Jeff Maxwell, actor
April 26 - Boyd Matson, former anchor of National Geographic Explorer
May 6 - Alan Dale, actor
May 10 - Marion Ramsey, actress and singer
May 16 - Andrew Lack, television executive
May 25 - Karen Valentine, actress
May 29 - Anthony Geary, actor
June 3 - Shuki Levy, Israeli-American music composer
June 14 - Len Berman, American television sportscaster
June 16 - Al Cowlings, American football player
June 20 - Paul Kreppel, actor and director
June 21
* Meredith Baxter, actress
* Michael Gross, actor
June 22
* David Lander, comedic actor
* Pete Maravich, NBA basketball player
June 25 - Jimmie Walker, actor
June 26 - Carmen Finestra, producer and TV writer
June 29 - Richard Lewis, comedian and actor
July 1 - Shirley Hemphill, comedian and actress
July 2 – Larry David, actor, writer and producer
July 3 – Betty Buckley, actress and singer
July 5 – Joe Brown, judge
July 8 - Kim Darby, actress
July 9 - O. J. Simpson, actor and former NFL football player
July 20
*Carlos Santana, guitarist
*Rose Ann Scamardella, former anchorwoman
July 22 – Albert Brooks, actor, comedian and director
July 23
*Larry Manetti, actor
*Kaity Tong, American broadcast journalist
July 24 - Robert Hays, American actor
July 27 - Betty Thomas, actress
July 28 - Sally Struthers, actress
July 30
*Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American actor, bodybuilder and 38th governor of California
*William Atherton, American actor
August 8 - Larry Wilcox, actor
August 13 - Gretchen Corbett, actress, The Rockford Files
August 19 - Gerald McRaney, actor
August 20 - Ray Wise, actor
August 22 - Cindy Williams, actress
August 28 - Debra Mooney, actress
September 4 – Jane Curtin, actress and comedian
September 6 – Bob Jenkins, announcer
September 21 - Stephen King, author
September 27
*Liz Torres, actress
*Denis Lawson, actor
October 1
*Stephen Collins, actor
*Larry Lamb, actor
October 12 – Chris Wallace, television news anchor
October 17 – Michael McKean, actor
October 18 – Joe Morton, actor
October 24 – Kevin Kline, actor
October 26 – Hillary Clinton, politician
October 29 – Richard Dreyfuss, actor
October 31
*Deidre Hall, actress
*Ira Joe Fisher, broadcaster
November 2 - Kate Linder, actress
November 3 - Shadoe Stevens, actor
November 9 - Robert David Hall, actor
November 13 - Joe Mantegna, actor
November 18 - Jameson Parker, actor
November 24 – Dwight Schultz, actor
November 25 – John Larroquette, actor
December 2 – Leonard Lightfoot, American actor
December 11
*Terry Turner, producer
*Bill Cunningham, talk show host
December 21 – Kay Robertson, American television personality
December 23 – Peter Kostis, American golf analyst
December 29 – Ted Danson, actor
December 31 – Tim Matheson, actor

Deaths

February 26 – Kálmán Tihanyi, Hungarian physicist, major contributor to the development of the cathode-ray tube