The year 1944 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1944.
May 22 – The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) increases its limits for single ownership of television stations from three to five.
May 25 – First commercial U.S. telecast by relay. Eddie Cantor is broadcast from NBC's Manhattan station WNBT to Philco's Philadelphia station WPTZ, via an automatic relay tower halfway between the two cities. (The AT&T corporation's coaxial cable between the cities is unavailable because of the war.) NBC stops broadcasting Cantor in the middle of his rendition of the song "We're Having a Baby, My Baby and Me" when it finds some of the lyrics and his gestures "objectionable."
August 16
Paris télévision – Fernsehsender Paris stops broadcasting. Broadcasting is resumed by the new French government in October 1944 under the name Télévision française with the same technical equipment.
John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first color television picture tube. Color movies are shown from a flying-spot scanner.
The War As It Happens, an early news show debuts (1944-1945)
At Home, variety series (1944-1945)
Missus Goes a Shopping, a game series, premieres (1944–1949)
The World in Your Home, an educational series, (1944–1948)
Opinions on Trial, a discussion series (1944-1945?)
Will You Remember?, a music series (1944-1945)
January 6 – Bonnie Franklin, actress and director (died 2013)
January 11 – Shelley Fabares, actress and singer
January 23 – Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor
February 3 – Trisha Noble, Australian singer and actress
February 8 – Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor (died 2014)
February 13 – Stockard Channing, actress
February 29 – Dennis Farina, actor (died 2013)
March 26 – Diana Ross, singer and actress
March 28 – Ken Howard, actor (died 2016)
April 4 – Craig T. Nelson, actor
April 29 – Richard Kline, actor and director
May 14 – George Lucas, director and producer
June 4 – Michelle Phillips, singer and actress
July 8 – Jeffrey Tambor, actor
July 15 – Jan-Michael Vincent, actor
August 7 – John Glover, actor
August 11 – Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor
August 13 – Kevin Tighe, actor
September 13 – Jacqueline Bisset, English actress
October 28 – Dennis Franz, actor
November 17 – Danny DeVito, actor, comedian, director and producer
December 2 – Cathy Lee Crosby, actress
December 11 – Lynda Day George, actress
December 17 – Bernard Hill, English actor
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