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1952 in television

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The year 1952 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1952.

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Events

  • July 7 - Turkey's first television station was opened ITU TV.
  • July 20 – Arrow to the Heart, the first collaboration between director Rudolph Cartier and scriptwriter Nigel Kneale, is broadcast by BBC Television.
  • August 1 – First TV broadcast in the Dominican Republic by La Voz Dominicana, a TV station based on the radio station of the same name.
  • September 6 – Television debuts in Canada with the initiation of CBFT in Montreal, Quebec.
  • September 8 – CBLT in Toronto, Ontario begins broadcasting as Canada's second TV station.
  • September 20 – The first commercial Ultra High Frequency (UHF) television station in the world, KPTV (now a Fox company affiliate), begins broadcasting in Portland, Oregon on channel 27.
  • October 7 – WFIL-TV Philadelphia's afternoon series Bandstand, which will become American Bandstand, changes emphasis to teens dancing to popular records
  • November 16 – CBS Television City in Hollywood, California opens.
  • The first political advertisements appear on US television. Democrats buy a 30-minute time segment for their candidate, Adlai Stevenson. Stevenson receives unfavorable mail for interfering with a broadcast of I Love Lucy. Dwight Eisenhower buys 20 second commercial segments and wins the election.
  • The first telecast of an atomic bomb detonation (KTLA).
  • The U.S. Federal Communications Commission reserved channels for non-commercial, public broadcasting.
  • There were approximately 146,000 television sets in Canada and most antennas were pointed towards WBEN-TV (now WIVB) in Buffalo, New York.
  • The first telecast of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is broadcast by CBS.

    • Programs/programmes

  • Amos & Andy (1951–1953)
  • Author Meets the Critics (1947–1954)
  • Bozo the Clown (1948–present)
  • Café Continental (UK) (1947–1953)
  • Candid Camera (1948–present)
  • Cisco Kid (1950–1956)
  • Come Dancing (UK) (1949–1995)
  • Dragnet (1951–1959)
  • Gillette Cavalcade of Sports (1946–1960)
  • Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951–present)
  • Hawkins Falls (1950, 1951–1955)
  • Howdy Doody (1947–1960)
  • I Love Lucy (1951–1960)
  • Juvenile Jury (1947–1954)
  • Kaleidoscope (UK) (1946–1953)
  • Kraft Television Theater (1947–1958)
  • Kukla, Fran and Ollie (1947–1957)
  • Life with Elizabeth (1952–1955)
  • Love of Life (1951–1980)
  • Martin Kane, Private Eye (1949–1954)
  • Meet the Press (1947–present)
  • Muffin the Mule (UK) (1946–1955)
  • Search for Tomorrow (1951–1986)
  • Television Newsreel (UK) (1948–1954)
  • The Ed Sullivan Show (1948–1971)
  • The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950–1958)
  • The Goldbergs (1949–1955)
  • The Jack Benny Show (1950–1965)
  • The Roy Rogers Show (1951–1957)
  • The Texaco Star Theater (1948–1953)
  • The Voice of Firestone (1949–1963)
  • Truth or Consequences (1950–1988)
  • What's My Line (1950–1967)
  • Your Hit Parade (1950–1959)
  • Your Show of Shows (1950–1954)

    • Debuts

  • January 14 – The Today Show on NBC (1952–present)
  • March 1 – Death Valley Days in syndication (1952–1975)
  • June 19 – I've Got a Secret on CBS (1952–1967)
  • June 30 – the soap opera The Guiding Light (1952–2009) on CBS, which began on radio in 1937, becoming the longest-running regularly scheduled drama in television history
  • September – the religious drama This Is the Life on DuMont, and ran until the late 1980s
  • September 19 – Adventures of Superman in syndication (1952–1958)
  • October 26 – Victory at Sea (1952–1953) on NBC, one of the first historic documentary series
  • November 1 – Hockey Night in Canada on CBC (1952–present)
  • November 6 – Biff Baker, U.S.A. on CBS (1952–1953)
  • November 8 – My Hero on NBC (1952–1953)
  • December 1 – The Abbott and Costello Show in syndication (1952–1954)
  • December 15 – Flower Pot Men on BBC Television (1952)
  • American Bandstand, originally called Bandstand, as a local program in Philadelphia (1952–1989)
  • Life Is Worth Living with Bishop Fulton J. Sheen on DuMont (1952–1955), then on ABC (1955–1957)
  • My Little Margie (1952–1955), starring Gale Storm
  • See It Now hosted by Edward R. Murrow
  • The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet on ABC (1952–1966)
  • The Ernie Kovacs Show, where Kovacs explores the boundaries of television technology with his use of special effects (1952–1953)
  • Meet the Masters, a program about classical music, on NBC and WGN-TV
  • This Is Your Life in the U.S. (1952–1961)
  • Life with Elizabeth, a sitcom featuring Betty White (1952–1955)

    • References

    1952 in television Wikipedia
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