Events
- 1 January – Sir Hugh Greene becomes Director-General of the BBC.
- 26 March – The Grand National is televised for the first time, by the BBC Television Service.
- 20 June – Nan Winton becomes the first national female newsreader on the BBC Television Service.
- 29 June – The BBC Television Centre is opened in London.
- 13 July – The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting is established to consider the future of broadcasting, cable and "the possibility of television for public showing". Their report, published in 1962, criticises the populism of ITV, and recommends that Britain's third national television channel (after the BBC Television Service and ITV) should be awarded to the BBC. BBC Two is launched in April 1964.
- 10 September – ITV broadcasts the first live Football League match to be shown on television, and the last for 23 years.
- 11 September – Danger Man premieres on ITV.
- 8 October – The BBC Television Service is renamed as BBC TV
- 9 December – The first episode of soap opera Coronation Street is aired on ITV. It is intended as a 13-week series, but continues to air to the present day and is currently Britain's longest running soap.
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