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.
May 30:
WRTV-DT (Channel 6) signs on as WFBM-TV in
Indianapolis, the first television station in the state of
Indiana. Its first aired program was the documentary The Crucible of Speed, about the early history of the
Indianapolis 500, followed by the inaugural live television coverage of the event.
August 25:
RCA announces the development of a compatible color TV system.
June 24: "
Hopalong Cassidy" becomes the first American television Western series (originally based on film shorts, then becoming an original series in 1952)
January 1:
KPRC-TV (Originally known as KLEE-TV) Signs on the air. They are the Second TV station in Texas, and the First in
Houston. That same day,
KTTV Signs on in Los Angeles.
March 21:
WTVJ signs on the air becoming the first television station in the state of Florida.
May 29:
WVTM-TV (Originally WAFM, and later WABT and WAPI) Signs on the air as the first TV station in Alabama
May 30:
WRTV (originally WFBM-TV) Signs on the air as the first TV station in Indiana
June 6:
KFOR-TV (originally WKY-TV) Signs on the air as the first TV station in Oklahoma
July 1
WBRC Begins operations from Birmingham AL, just 1 month after WVTM started operations.
August 29:
WOWT (originally WOW-TV) Signs on the air for the first time, becoming the first television station in Nebraska, and one of the first in the Midwest.
^Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 619.
ISBN978-0-7864-6477-7.
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.
May 30:
WRTV-DT (Channel 6) signs on as WFBM-TV in
Indianapolis, the first television station in the state of
Indiana. Its first aired program was the documentary The Crucible of Speed, about the early history of the
Indianapolis 500, followed by the inaugural live television coverage of the event.
August 25:
RCA announces the development of a compatible color TV system.
June 24: "
Hopalong Cassidy" becomes the first American television Western series (originally based on film shorts, then becoming an original series in 1952)
January 1:
KPRC-TV (Originally known as KLEE-TV) Signs on the air. They are the Second TV station in Texas, and the First in
Houston. That same day,
KTTV Signs on in Los Angeles.
March 21:
WTVJ signs on the air becoming the first television station in the state of Florida.
May 29:
WVTM-TV (Originally WAFM, and later WABT and WAPI) Signs on the air as the first TV station in Alabama
May 30:
WRTV (originally WFBM-TV) Signs on the air as the first TV station in Indiana
June 6:
KFOR-TV (originally WKY-TV) Signs on the air as the first TV station in Oklahoma
July 1
WBRC Begins operations from Birmingham AL, just 1 month after WVTM started operations.
August 29:
WOWT (originally WOW-TV) Signs on the air for the first time, becoming the first television station in Nebraska, and one of the first in the Midwest.
^Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 619.
ISBN978-0-7864-6477-7.