1947 in American television

none 1947 This is a list of American television-related events in 1947. Events Date Event Notes/Ref. January 1 KTLA broadcasts the Tournament of Roses Parade for the first time ever. January 3 For the first time ever, the proceedings of the United States Congress were televised. January 29 The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) demonstrates an all-electronic color television system using live images, to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). January 30 CBS's color television system is rejected by the FCC. February 27 The world's first-ever on-the-spot news coverage is broadcast by KTLA from a Pico Boulevard electroplating plant explosion. March 11 The first successful American children's television series, Movies for Small Fry debuts on the DuMont Television Network. July 16 RCA demonstrates the world's first all-electronic color camera to the Federal Communications Commission. (Only television receivers were present at the demonstration on January 29; the camera was 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 was watched by an estimated 3.9 million people (many watching in bars and other public places). This marked television's first mass audience. October 5 The first telecast of a presidential address from the White House. President Harry S. 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 was televised by WTVW-TV (present-day WJLA-TV Channel 7 in Washington DC) as part of its inaugural broadcast. It was 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 indeed 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 (now WBBM-TV) in Chicago, Illinois.November 6 Meet the Press first appears as a local program in Washington, D.C. Television programs Debuts Date Debut Network March 11McNeil Alex Total Television 1996 Penguin Books USA, Inc. New York, New York 0-14-02-4916-8 765 4th Small Fry Club DuMont April 3Woolery George W. Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part II: Live, Film, and Tape Series 1985 The Scarecrow Press 0-8108-1651-2 258–259 Juvenile Jury NBC May 7http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100683 Kraft Television Theatre Griffith Benjamin St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture Thomas Gale 2008-07-19 2002 usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20080217021212/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100683 2008-02-17 Kraft Television Theatre NBC October 13Hyatt Wesley The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television 1997 Watson-Guptill Publications 978-0823083152 https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofda00hyat registration 22 March 2020 253–254 Kukla, Fran and Ollie WBKB November 6Meet the Press: U.S. Public Affairs/Interview http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/meetthepres/meetthepress.htm Museum of Broadcast Communications dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120925203233/http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/meetthepres/meetthepress.htm September 25, 2012Jay Robert WNBT Schedule, Week of November 2nd, 1947 https://www.tvobscurities.com/2017/11/wnbt-schedule-week-november-2nd-1947/ TV Obscurities 7 November 2017 Robert Jay 28 October 2020 Meet the Press NBC November 13 Pantomime Quiz KTLA November 18Landay Lori I Love Lucy 2010 Wayne State University Press Michigan, Detroit 978-0814335734 69 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZwX7qqzVeF0C&dq=%22Mary+Kay+and+Johnny%22&pg=PT79 22 September 2017 en Mary Kay and Johnny DuMont December 8Brooks Tim Marsh Earle F. The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present 24 June 2009 Random House Publishing Group 978-0-307-48320-1 55 https://books.google.com/books?id=w8KztFy6QYwC&dq=Americana+NBC+quiz&pg=PA55 December 20, 2021 en Americana NBC December 27https://books.google.com/books?id=VVQd4UD7k40C&q=howdy+doody&pg=PA245 American puppetry: collections, history, and performance Dicks Phyllis T. McFarland 2004 0-7864-1896-6 326 March 30, 2012 Howdy Doody NBC Television stations Station launches Date Market Station Channel Affiliation Notes/Ref. January 3 Washington, D.C. WTTG 5 DuMont Now a Fox network O&O since 1986. January 22 Los Angeles, California KTLA 4 (now 5) First commercial television station west of the Mississippi River; now a CW O&O station. February 8 St. Louis, Missouri KSD-TV 5 NBC (primary) DuMont (secondary) Now KSDK. Longest-tenured affiliate of NBC, or any network, among non-O&Os March 4 Detroit, Michigan WWJ-TV 4 NBC (primary) DuMont (secondary) Now WDIV-TV, the WWJ-TV calls now reside at CBS' O&O in Detroit June 27 Washington, D.C. WNBW 4 NBC (O&O) Now WRC-TV September 13 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania WFIL-TV 6 DuMont Now ABC O&O station WPVI-TV October 3 Washington, D.C. WTVW (later WMAL-TV) 7 CBS Now ABC affiliate WJLA-TV October 27 Baltimore, Maryland WMAR-TV 2 Independent Now an ABC affiliate since October 1995 December 3 Milwaukee, Wisconsin WTMJ-TV 3 (now on 4) NBC (primary) CBS and ABC (secondary) December 17 Cleveland, Ohio WEWS-TV 5 CBS Now an ABC affiliate Births 1947 in television#Births Deaths 1947 in television#Deaths References External links List of 1947 American television series at IMDb 1947 *