1948 in Television - Events

Events

  • March 20 – Renowned Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini makes his television debut, conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in an all-Wagner program.
  • June 21 – The first network telecast of political conventions from Philadelphia.
  • July 29 – The BBC Television Service begins its coverage of the 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, but passes off with no serious problems.
  • July 30 – Professional wrestling premieres in prime-time on the DuMont Network.
  • August 15 – The first network nightly newscast, CBS-TV News, debuts on CBS with Douglas Edwards.
  • November 4 Moscow TV center adopted a new 625 line PAL television standard.
  • November 29 - Roller Derby is broadcast from NY on the CBS television network.
  • November 29 – The television puppet show Kukla, Fran and Ollie moves to the NBC Midwest Network.
  • CBS begins network programming.
  • ABC opens its first television station in New York.
  • Television manufacturing begins in Canada.
  • Telecasts of the NBC Symphony Orchestra, begin until 1954.

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