This is a list of British television related events from 1948.
5 January – Television Newsreel is first shown on the BBC Television Service.
29 July – The BBC Television Service begins its coverage of the Olympic Games in London by broadcasting the opening ceremony. From now until the closing ceremony on 14 August the BBC Television Service will broadcast an average three and a half hours a day of live coverage from the Games, using a special coaxial cable linking the main venue at Wembley Stadium to the television service's base at Alexandra Palace. This is the most ambitious sustained outside broadcast yet attempted by the BBC, but passes off with no serious problems.
5 January – Television Newsreel (1948–1954)
Picture Page (1936–1939, 1946–1952).
For the Children (1937–1939, 1946–1950)
Kaleidoscope (1946–1953)
Muffin the Mule (1946–1955, 2005–2006)
Café Continental (1947–1953)
2 January — Deborah Watling, actress
19 January — Michael J. Jackson, actor
26 February — Roberta Taylor, actress
10 March – Richard Park, Media personality and businessman
4 April — Derek Thompson, Northern Irish actor
12 April — Jeremy Beadle, television presenter, writer and producer (died 2008)
11 May — Pam Ferris, actress
16 May — Judy Finnigan, television presenter
31 May — Lynda Bellingham, actress and broadcaster (died 2014)
19 September — Jeremy Irons, actor
27 September — Michele Dotrice, actress
3 November — Lulu, singer and entertainer
29 November — David Rintoul, actor
22 December — Noel Edmonds, television presenter and executive
30 July — Hay Petrie, actor (born 1895)
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