1951_in_television
1951 in television
Television-related events during 1951
The year 1951 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1951.
- March 21 – XEW-TV began transmissions, being the second oldest in Mexico City, with the first one being XHTV.
- March 22 – RCA introduces an eight-pound (3.6 kg) monochrome television camera with a 53-pound (24 kg) backpack transmitter, both operated by batteries. It is the first portable television camera.
- May 28 – The US Supreme Court upholds the Federal Communications Commission's approval of the CBS color television system.
- May 31 – Nederlandse Televisie Stichting (NTS), as predecessor of Nederlandse Omroep Stichting Televisie (NOS), a first regular television broadcasting service started in Amsterdam, Netherlands.[1]
- June 25 – CBS presents its first commercial color telecast featuring Arthur Godfrey, Ed Sullivan, and Faye Emerson.
- June – RCA demonstrates its new electronic color system.
- August 11 – The first baseball game is televised in color, a double-header between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Braves.
- September 4 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast occurs in San Francisco, California from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
- September 29
- The first live sporting event broadcast coast-to-coast, a college football game between Duke University and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised by NBC.
- CBS broadcasts the first American football game in color, between the University of California and the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia.
- September 30 – WXIA-TV signed on the air at 5 p.m., as WLTV on channel 8. It was the first full time ABC affiliate for Atlanta, taking it over from WSB-TV (channel 2) and WAGA-TV (channel 5).
- October 2
- Danish language television station, DR1, first launched in Copenhagen.[2]
- NTS, The first television network in the Netherlands was launched at 8:15 pm.
- October 3 – The first live coast-to-coast network telecast of a World Series baseball game.
- October 12 – The Holme Moss transmitter is initiated in Northern England, making BBC Television available to the region for the first time.
- October 17 – Television broadcasts begin in Argentina from Primera Televisora Argentina on channel 7, Buenos Aires.
- October 20 – The CBS Eye logo makes its television debut.
- November 11 – Bing Crosby Enterprises demonstrates black-and-white video recording using a modified Ampex tape recorder.
- November 18 – Edward R. Murrow on See It Now presents a split screen view of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City and the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. It has erroneously been referred to as the first live transcontinental telecast.
- December – TV Tupi in São Paulo (Brazil) begins broadcasting Sua Vida Me Pertence ("Your Life Belongs To Me") starring Vida Alves, pioneering the telenovela genre.
- December 24 – The first televised opera composed for television, Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti, is broadcast by NBC.
- Ernie Kovacs' Time for Ernie and Ernie in Kovacsland television series premiere. Kovacs explores the boundaries of television technology with his use of camera tricks and special effects.
More information Series, Debut ...
| Series | Debut | Ended |
|---|---|---|
| Picture Page (UK) | October 8, 1936 | 1939 |
| 1946 | 1952 | |
| The Voice of Firestone Televues | 1943 | 1947 |
| 1949 | 1963 | |
| Kaleidoscope (UK) | November 2, 1946 | 1953 |
| Gillette Cavalcade of Sports | November 8, 1946 | June 24, 1960 |
| Muffin the Mule (UK) | 1946 | 1955 |
| Kraft Television Theater | May 7, 1947 | 1958 |
| Kukla, Fran and Ollie | October 13, 1947 | 1957 |
| Meet the Press | November 6, 1947 | — |
| Howdy Doody | December 27, 1947 | September 24, 1960 |
| Café Continental | 1947 | 1953 |
| Juvenile Jury | 1947 | 1954 |
| Small Fry Club | 1947 | 1951 |
| Television Newsreel (UK) | January 5, 1948 | 1954 |
| The Original Amateur Hour | January 18, 1948 | September 27, 1970 |
| Court of Current Issues | February 9, 1948 | June 26, 1951 |
| Author Meets the Critics | April 1948 | October 10, 1954 |
| Hollywood Screen Test | April 15, 1948 | 1953 |
| Texaco Star Theater | June 8, 1948 | 1953 |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | June 20, 1948 | June 6, 1971 |
| Candid Camera | August 10, 1948 | May 23, 2004 |
| CBS Evening News | August 15, 1948 | — |
| Foodini the Great | August 23, 1948 | June 23, 1951 |
| Ford Theatre | October 17, 1948 | July 10, 1957 |
| The Alan Dale Show | 1948 | 1951 |
| Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts | 1948 | January 1, 1958 |
| Break the Bank | 1948 | 1957 |
| Celebrity Time | 1948 | September 1952 |
| Club Seven | 1948 | 1951 |
| The Philco Television Playhouse | 1948 | 1955 |
| Winner Take All | 1948 | 1952 |
| The Goldbergs | January 17, 1949 | 1956 |
| Captain Video | June 27, 1949 | April 1, 1955 |
| Mama | July 1, 1949 | March 17, 1957 |
| Martin Kane, Private Eye | August 7, 1949 | June 17, 1954 |
| The Lone Ranger | September 15, 1949 | June 6, 1957 |
| Come Dancing (UK) | September 29, 1949 | 1995 |
| The Aldrich Family | October 2, 1949 | May 29, 1953 |
| January 2, 1953 | August 22, 1958 | |
| The Ruggles | November 3, 1949 | June 19, 1952 |
| One Man's Family | November 4, 1949 | June 21, 1952 |
| March 1, 1954 | April 1, 1955 | |
| Arthur Godfrey and His Friends | 1949 | 1959 |
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- January 3 – Dragnet, crime drama, on NBC (1951–1959 Series One B&W, 1967-1970 Series Two Color)
- January 8 - Say It with Acting, game show, on NBC.
- March 3 – Watch Mr. Wizard on NBC (1951–1965)[3]
- March 12 - Miss Susan, soap opera on NBC (1951)[4]
- June 2 - The daytime version of A Date with Judy debuts on ABC.
- June 16 – Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town, variety show, with Faye Emerson and Skitch Henderson, on CBS
- July 1 - G. E. Guest House debuts on CBS.
- July 6 – Front Page Detective debuts on Dumont.[5]
- July 16 – A British version of the What's My Line?, game show, on BBC (Like its American counterpart, it became one of the top-rated programs for the rest of the decade and made a celebrity of its host, Eamonn Andrews)
- August 3 - The Ad-Libbers, comedy sketch game show, on CBS. (1951)
- August 3 - Tales of Tomorrow, a science fiction anthology series on ABC (1951-1953)
- September 3 – The first long-running soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, on CBS (1951–1986)
- September 11 - The Bill Goodwin Show, a talk/variety program on NBC. (1951-1952)[6]
- September 24 – Love of Life on CBS (1951–1980)
- October 15 – Situation comedy I Love Lucy, starring Lucille Ball with her real-life husband, Desi Arnaz, on CBS (1951–1957); produced on film in front of a studio audience, using three film cameras, instead of being broadcast live, and making Ball the world's first major female television star
- October 28 - Out There, a science fiction program on CBS (1951-1952)
- Television version of Amos & Andy (1951–1953)
- The Roy Rogers Show (1951–1957), on NBC, starring Roy Rogers and his wife, Dale Evans
- Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951–present)
The Honeymooners also began in 1951
Ending during 1951
More information Date, Show ...
| Date | Show | Debut |
|---|---|---|
| January 16 | The Alan Dale Show | 1948 |
| July 18 | Four Star Revue[7] | Unknown |
| August 29 | Stars Over Hollywood[5] | 1950 |
| November 2 | Vanity Fair [8] | 1948 |
| December 28 | Miss Susan | 1951[4] |
| Unknown | Club Seven | 1948 |
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- Rico Alaniz – The Adventures of Kit Carson
- Mel Brooks – The Milton Berle Show
- Raymond Burr – Stars Over Hollywood
- Joseph Calleia – Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
- Wendell Corey – Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
- Robert Coote – Robert Montgomery Presents
- James Fox – Parent-Craft
- Ben Gazzara – Danger
- Stacy Harris – Chesterfield Sound Off Time
- Pat Hingle – Suspense
- Rochelle Hudson – Racket Squad
- Barry Kelley – Stars Over Hollywood
- Don Knotts – Search for Tomorrow
- Robert Loggia – Search for Tomorrow
- Vera Miles – Fireside Theatre
- Elizabeth Montgomery – Robert Montgomery Presents
- Alvy Moore – Space Patrol
- Kathleen O'Malley – The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
- Joan Plowright – Sara Crewe
- Denver Pyle – The Cisco Kid
- Lee Remick – Armstrong Circle Theatre
- George C. Scott – The Bigelow Theatre
- Lois Smith – Love of Life
- Charles Starrett – Faith Baldwin Romance Theatre
- Jan Sterling – Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
- Jack Weston – Out There
- nl:Nederlandse Televisie Stichting (Dutch language) Retrieved date on October 3, 2017.
- "Watch Mr. Wizard at Encyclopedia of Television". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-07-17.
- Erickson, Hal (2009). Encyclopedia of Television Law Shows: Factual and Fictional Series About Judges, Lawyers and the Courtroom, 1948-2008. McFarland. p. 189. ISBN 9780786438280. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
- Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1979). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946-Present. Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-25525-9.
- McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p. 98. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
- McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television. Penguin Books USA, Inc. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
- McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television: the Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p. 883. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
- Paul, Larisha (2024-03-07). "Jennifer Hudson, Barry Manilow 'Heartbroken' Over Death of 'American Idol' Vocal Coach Debra Byrd". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2024-03-08.