1954 in television

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Debuts
3 Popular Television Shows
4 Births
5 Deaths

Events

First television broadcast begins in Colombia
NTSC video standard introduced
Television Act 1954 authorises setting up the infrastructure for British commercial television.
January 1 - NBC broadcasts the Rose Parade in color on 21 stations.
January 3 - RAI launched in Italy
January 11 - The first weather forecast is televised in the UK
April - The American Broadcasting Company broadcasts the Army-McCarthy hearings live and in their entirety.
September 11 - The Miss America Beauty Contest airs for the first time on national television in the United States. 27 million viewers watched as Lee Ann Meriwether won the crown. Meriwether would later become a television actress, co-starring in Barnaby Jones in the 1970s.
November 3 - Disney's Alice in Wonderland airs on ABC
March 23-First television station in Puerto Rico airs his tests and starts transmission.