The year 1933 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1933.
January 23 – W9XAL in Kansas City begins broadcasting.
January 24 – John Cameron Swayze begins his daily Journal-Post News Flashes on W9XAL, which is simulcast by KMBC radio.
April 21 – The first television revue, named Looking In, is shown on the BBC. The first four minutes of this programme survive on a Silvatone record, an early method of home video recording.
August 4? – W9XAT in Minneapolis, Minnesota makes its first transmission.
RCA performs private field tests in Camden, New Jersey of an electronic television system.
The Television Ghost (1931–1933)
January 8 – Charles Osgood, journalist
January 17 – Shari Lewis, puppeteer (died 1998),
February 2 – Tony Jay, actor (died 2006)
March 12 – Barbara Feldon, actress.
March 19
Phyllis Newman, actress, game show panelist
Renée Taylor, actress
April 5 – Frank Gorshin, actor (died 2005)
April 7 – Wayne Rogers, actor, financial commentator (died 2015)
April 26 – Carol Burnett, actor, comedian
May 7 – Roger Perry, actor
May 20 – Constance Towers, actress
May 21 – Richard Libertini, actor (died 2016)
June 8 – Joan Rivers, comedian (died 2014)
June 20 – Danny Aiello, actor
June 21 – Bernie Kopell, actor
June 27 – Gary Crosby (died 1995)
July 23 – Bert Convy, game show host (died 1991)
July 30 – Edd Byrnes, actor
August 1 – Dom DeLuise, actor and comedian (died 2009)
August 11 – Jerry Falwell, televangelist (died 2007)
August 16 – Julie Newmar, actress
August 25 – Tom Skerritt, actor
September 13 – Eileen Fulton, actress
September 18
Fred Willard, comedian
Robert Blake, actor
September 27
Greg Morris, actor (died 1996)
Kathleen Nolan, actress
November 3 – Ken Berry, actor
November 5 – Herb Edelman, actor (died 1996)
November 19 – Larry King, talk show host
November 28 – Hope Lange, actress (died 2003)
December 8 – Flip Wilson, comedian (died 1998)
December 15 – Tim Conway, comedian
December 26 – Caroll Spinney, puppeteer
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