1949 in British television

This is a list of British television related events from 1949.

Events

23 April - The first FA Amateur Cup Final staged at Wembley is also the first to be televised. The whole match is shown on the BBC, Bromley beating Romford 1-0.

July – BBC Television revives the regular televised weather forecast.
July 11–14 – The first film made specifically for British television, A Dinner Date With Death, is shot at Marylebone Studios in London, featuring Roy Plomley. It is broadcast in 1950.

29 September – The BBC Television Service first broadcasts Come Dancing, a TV ballroom dancing competition show.

26 October – How Do You View?, the first comedy series on British television, starring Terry-Thomas, is first broadcast.

17 December – The Sutton Coldfield television transmitter is opened in the Midlands, making it the first part of the UK outside London to receive the BBC Television Service.
31 December – BBC television ends the day with a brief live broadcast of 20 sleeping babies in St Thomas' Hospital, London.

13 March – David Neilson, actor
30 March – Sue Cook, broadcaster and author
11 April – David Stafford, writer and broadcaster
29 April – Anita Dobson, actress
2 May – Alan Titchmarsh, gardener and television presenter
13 May – Zoë Wanamaker, American-born actress
21 May – Andrew Neil, Scottish journalist and broadcaster
22 May – Cheryl Campbell, film, television and stage actor
16 August – John McArdle, actor
25 August – Ross Davidson, actor
2 September – Moira Stuart, broadcast presenter
10 September – Freddy Marks, actor, singer and musician
19 September – Twiggy, model and television presenter
23 September – Floella Benjamin, Trinidad-born children's TV presenter and actress
6 October – Sarah Cullen, television and radio journalist
20 October – Jane Tucker, actress, singer and musician
7 November – Su Pollard, actress and singer
12 December – Bill Nighy, actor
13 December – Robert Lindsay, actor