Events
- January 3 – Colgate Theatre premieres on NBC.
- January 11 – A two-hour special on all American networks celebrates the linking of the eastern and midwestern networks via coaxial cable.
- January 21 - Your Show Time becomes the first filmed dramatic series on American network television.
- January 31 – The first Emmy Awards are presented and broadcast on television from Los Angeles.
- May – The first telethon, benefitting the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, is hosted by Milton Berle and lasts for 24 hours.
- August 25 – RCA announces the development of a compatible color TV system.
- December 17 – The Sutton Coldfield television transmitter is opened in the English Midlands, making it the first part of the UK outside London to receive BBC Television.
- December 29 – KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
- First television broadcasts begin in Cuba.
- For the first time, the Sears & Roebuck catalog includes televisions.
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