1948 in television

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

Events

- The Ziv Company creates Ziv Television Programs as a subsidiary specializing in the production of original television programs for syndication.
February 9 - WLWT, Cincinnati, Ohio, begins commercial broadcasting, changing its call letters from experimental station W8XCT.
March 4 - First American television ratings are released by C. E. Hooper.
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.
May 3 – The first network nightly newscast, CBS Television News, debuts on CBS with Douglas Edwards as journalist.
June 21 - The first network telecasts 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 and is completed without serious problems.
August 10 - ABC establishes its first television station in New York.
August 25 – First-ever congressional hearing is televised: "Confrontation Day" between Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers before the House Un-American Activities Committee
November 4 - Moscow TV facility adopted a new 625 line PAL television standard.
November 25 - The earliest known national telecast of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is broadcast by CBS.
November 29
* Roller Derby is broadcast from NY on the CBS television network.
* The television puppet show series Kukla, Fran and Ollie is transferred to the NBC Midwest Network.
December 18 — WDSU TV channel 6, NBC affiliate, becomes the first station in the Deep South in New Orleans, Louisiana
CBS begins network programming.
Television manufacturing begins in Canada.
Telecasts of the NBC Symphony Orchestra, begin until 1954.
The number of homes in the U.S. that own a television set reaches one million.

Debuts

January 5 – Television Newsreel is first shown on the BBC Television Service.
April 15 - For Your Pleasure debuts on NBC.
April 18 - The ABC television network begins operation.
April 22 - WTVR-TV, Richmond, Virginia, begins broadcasting on Channel 6. WTVR is the first TV station south of Washington, D.C., giving it the nickname "The South's first Television Station."
April 27 - KSTP-TV, Saint Paul, Minnesota, signs on the air as an NBC affiliate, the first TV station in Minnesota.
June 8 – Milton Berle becomes the first United States television star with the debut of Texaco Star Theater broadcast by NBC.
June 9 - WBZ-TV, Boston, Massachusetts, begins broadcasting on Channel 4. WBZ is New England's first television station.
June 20 – Toast of the Town, a variety series hosted by Ed Sullivan, premieres on CBS, with guests Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis .
July 1 – Mark Goodson's first game series Winner Take All premieres on CBS.
August 10 – Candid Microphone debuts on ABC.
September 8 - Girl About Town debuts on NBC.
September 29 - WSB-TV, Atlanta, Georgia, begins broadcasting on Channel 8.
October 12 - Vanity Fair debuts.
November 15 - The Adventures of Oky Doky premieres.
November 24 - The Arrow Show premieres.
November - Super Circus premieres Amanda.The Bigelow Show premieres.Champagne and Orchids.Child's World debuts.Actors Studio.Cartoon Teletales.The Alan Dale Show premieres.Club Seven.

Births

January 2 - Judith Miller, American journalist
January 5 - Ted Lange, actor, director
January 12 - Martha Teichner, American television news correspondent
January 14 - Carl Weathers, actor
January 16 - John Carpenter, actor
January 18 - M. C. Gainey, actor
January 22 - Velton Ray Bunch, composer
January 29
*Cristina Saralegui, Cuban-American talk show host and actress
*Marc Singer, Canadian actor
February 4 - Alice Cooper, actor and singer
February 5
*Christopher Guest, actor
*Barbara Hershey, actress
*Tom Wilkinson, actor
February 14 - Pat O'Brien, American author and radio host
February 15 - Tino Insana, actor
February 18 - Peter Lance, American journalist
February 20 - Jennifer O'Neill, actress
February 22
*John Ashton, actor
*Joe Cortese, actor
February 24 - Dennis Waterman, actor
February 28
*Bernadette Peters, actress and singer
*Mercedes Ruehl, actress
February 29
*Ken Foree, actor
*Gérard Darmon, actor
*Kerry Walker, actress
March 3 - Brian Cummings, actor
March 6 - Anna Maria Horsford, actress
March 13 - Robert S. Woods, actor
March 14 - Billy Crystal, actor, comedian
March 20 - John de Lancie, actor
March 22 - Wolf Blitzer, American journalist
March 24 - Adrian Shergold, director
March 25 - Bonnie Bedelia, actress
March 26 - Steven Tyler, actor
March 28 - Dianne Wiest, actress
March 30 - Justin Deas, actor
March 31
*Al Gore, American politician
*Rhea Perlman, actress
April 6 - Patrika Darbo, actress
April 7 - Michael Hirsh, Canadian producer
April 12
*Jeremy Beadle, English presenter
*Rita Braver, American television news correspondent
April 13 - Bob Kur, American television journalist
April 19 - Andrew Scheinman, American film and television producer
April 20 - Gregory Itzin, actor
April 25 - Freda Foh Shen, actress
April 27
*Kate Pierson, singer
*Si Robertson, American television personality
April 30
*Perry King, actor
*Allan Arkush, producer
May 3
*Chris Mulkey, actor
*Peter Oosterhuis, golfer
May 6 - Paul Linke, actor
May 8
*Stephen Stohn, American-Canadian lawyer and producer
*Gale Tattersall, producer
May 10 - Meg Foster, actress
May 11
*Joe Bodolai, writer
*Pam Ferris, actress
May 12 - Lindsay Crouse, actress
May 14
*Walter Olkewicz, actor
*Rich Correll, actor
May 17 - Jim Gardner, broadcaster
May 19 - Grace Jones, actress
May 21
*Carol Potter, actress
*Jonathan Hyde, actor
May 23 - Gary McCord, golfer
May 26 - Stevie Nicks, singer
May 27 - Ken Lerner, actor
June 1 - Powers Boothe, actor,
June 2 - Jerry Mathers, actor
June 11 - Stephen Schnetzer, actor
June 19 - Phylicia Rashad, actress
June 20 - Tina Sinatra, businesswoman
June 25 - Jesse Frederick, singer
June 28 - Kathy Bates, actress
June 29 - Fred Grandy, actor
July 2 - Saul Rubinek, actor
July 12
*Jay Thomas, actor
*Richard Simmons, American fitness personality
July 13 - Daphne Maxwell Reid, actress
July 15 - Anne Sinclair, French television and radio interviewer
July 16 - Rubén Blades, actor
July 19 - Beverly Archer, actress
July 22 - Neil Hardwick, British-born Finnish theatre and TV director
July 25 - Eren Ozker, American puppeteer
July 28 - Georgia Engel, actress
July 30 - Jean Reno, actor
August 2 - Dennis Prager, talk show host
August 5 - Carole Laure, actress
August 8 - Wincey Willis, British broadcaster
August 13 - Merrill Markoe, writer
August 14 - Joseph Marcell, English actor
August 18
*Maureen Garrett, actress
*Sean Scanlan, actor
*Grainger Hines, actor
August 19 - Deana Martin, actress
August 20 - John Noble, Australian actor
August 23 - Steve Edwards, American talk show host
August 24 - John Beard, American news anchor
August 27 - Sgt. Slaughter, actor and pro wrestler
August 30 - Lewis Black, American actor
September 7
*Susan Blakely, actress
*Roz Abrams, American television news journalist
September 13
*Nell Carter, actress, singer
*Clyde Kusatsu, actor
September 16 - Susan Ruttan, actress
September 17 - John Ritter, actor, comedian
September 19 - Jeremy Irons, actor
September 20
*Joanna Cameron, actress
*George R. R. Martin, author
September 24
*Phil Hartman, Canadian actor, comedian
*Gordon Clapp, actor
September 25 - Mimi Kennedy, actress
September 26 - Bruce Sudano, songwriter
September 27
*Michele Dotrice, English actress
*Tom Braidwood, actor
*A Martinez, soap opera actor and singer
September 29 - Bryant Gumbel, journalist and sportscaster
October 2 - Avery Brooks, actor
October 4 - Linda McMahon, politician and businesswoman
October 5 - Sal Viscuso, actor
October 6 - Frances Tomelty, actress
October 10 - Carol Marin, journalist
October 12 - Eli Danker, actor
October 17 - George Wendt, actor
October 19
*Pat Klous, actress
*Dave Mallow, actor
October 21
*Dick Christie, actor
*Tom Everett, actor
October 23 - Brian Ross, journalist
October 24 - James Whitmore, Jr., actor
October 28 - Telma Hopkins, singer, actress
October 29 - Kate Jackson, actress
November 1 - Anna Stuart, actress
November 7 - James Houghton, actor
November 10 - Aaron Brown, journalist
November 11 - Vincent Schiavelli, actor
November 14 - Robert Ginty, actor
November 15 - Bob Beckel, commentator
November 17 - Howard Fineman, commentator
November 20
*Richard Masur, actor
*Harlee McBride, actress
November 21 - Lonnie Jordan, singer
November 25 - Storm Field, American television meteorologist
November 30 - Larry Bishop, actor
December 3 - Ozzy Osbourne, English singer, songwriter and actor
December 6 - JoBeth Williams, actress
December 7 - Tony Thomas, producer
December 21
*Samuel L. Jackson, actor
*Barry Gordon, actor
December 22
*Noel Edmonds, English television presenter
*Steve Garvey, Football player who played himself on an episode of the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me! in 1999
December 25 - Barbara Mandrell, singer
December 26 - Candy Crowley, American news anchor
December 31 - Donna Summer, singer-songwriter

Television debuts

Mischa Auer – The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre
Ralph Bellamy – The Philco Television Playhouse
Bruce Cabot – Stars Over Hollywood
John Carradine – The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre
Jackie Cooper – Kraft Television Theatre
James Dunn – The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre
Dean Jagger – Studio One
Paul Muni – ''The Philco Television Playhouse''