July 16 – RCA demonstrates the world's first all-electronic color camera to the
Federal Communications Commission. (Only television receivers are present at the demonstration on January 29; the camera is at a remote studio.)
September 30 – The opening game of the
World Series is the first World Series game to be telecast. The
1947 World Series is watched by an estimated 3.9 million people (many watching in bars and other public places), becoming television's first mass audience.
October 5 – The first telecast of a presidential address from the
White House. President
Truman speaks about the world food crisis. It is preceded by a
Jell-O commercial, and features the president discussing his program for food rationing. The address is televised by WTVW-TV (presently
WJLA-TV Channel 7 in Washington DC) as part of its inaugural broadcast. It is also simulcast by radio. It was long believed that no copy of this broadcast existed, but segments are preserved on
kinescope in the Library of Congress. (For the record, President
Franklin Roosevelt's address broadcast over
NBC experimental television W2XBS—now
WNBC—at the
1939 New York World's Fair preceded the 1947 Truman broadcast. However, Truman's broadcast is the first from inside the White House.)
October 13 – The puppet show series Junior Jamboree, later known as Kukla, Fran and Ollie, premieres on WBKB in Chicago, Illinois.
July 16 – RCA demonstrates the world's first all-electronic color camera to the
Federal Communications Commission. (Only television receivers are present at the demonstration on January 29; the camera is at a remote studio.)
September 30 – The opening game of the
World Series is the first World Series game to be telecast. The
1947 World Series is watched by an estimated 3.9 million people (many watching in bars and other public places), becoming television's first mass audience.
October 5 – The first telecast of a presidential address from the
White House. President
Truman speaks about the world food crisis. It is preceded by a
Jell-O commercial, and features the president discussing his program for food rationing. The address is televised by WTVW-TV (presently
WJLA-TV Channel 7 in Washington DC) as part of its inaugural broadcast. It is also simulcast by radio. It was long believed that no copy of this broadcast existed, but segments are preserved on
kinescope in the Library of Congress. (For the record, President
Franklin Roosevelt's address broadcast over
NBC experimental television W2XBS—now
WNBC—at the
1939 New York World's Fair preceded the 1947 Truman broadcast. However, Truman's broadcast is the first from inside the White House.)
October 13 – The puppet show series Junior Jamboree, later known as Kukla, Fran and Ollie, premieres on WBKB in Chicago, Illinois.