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The year 1947 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1947.

Events

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  • January 3 – Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
  • January 22 – The first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, KTLA, begins operation in Hollywood.
  • January 29 – RCA company demonstrates an all-electronic color television system using live images, to the US Federal Communications Commission.
  • January 30 – The FCC rejects CBS' color television system.
  • February 10-March 11 – BBC television service in the UK is temporarily suspended due to a national fuel crisis.
  • March 11 – The first successful American children's television series, Movies for Small Fry debuts on the DuMont Network.
  • July 16 – RCA demonstrates the world's first all-electronic color camera to the Federal Communications Commission. (Only television receivers are present at the demonstration on January 29; the camera is at a remote studio.)
  • September 30 – The opening game of the World Series is the first World Series game to be telecast. The 1947 World Series is watched by an estimated 3.9 million people (many watching in bars and other public places), becoming television's first mass audience.
  • October 5 – The first telecast of a presidential address from the White House. President Truman speaks about the world food crisis. It is preceded by a Jell-O commercial, and features the president discussing his program for food rationing. The address is televised by WTVW-TV (presently WJLA-TV Channel 7 in Washington DC) as part of its inaugural broadcast. It is also simulcast by radio. It was long believed that no copy of this broadcast existed, but segments are preserved on kinescope in the Library of Congress. (For the record, President Franklin Roosevelt's address broadcast over NBC experimental television W2XBS—now WNBC—at the 1939 New York World's Fair preceded the 1947 Truman broadcast. However, Truman's broadcast is the first from inside the White House.)
  • October 13 – The puppet show series Junior Jamboree, later known as Kukla, Fran and Ollie, premieres on WBKB in Chicago, Illinois.
  • November 6 – Meet the Press first appears as a local program in Washington, D.C.
  • November 8 – Memorial service broadcast from the Cenotaph by the BBC, using tele-recording for the first time.
  • The first Hollywood movie production for TV, The Public Prosecutor.
  • There are 250,000 television sets in use in the United States.

Debuts

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Television shows

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Series Debut Ended Network
Swing Into Sports 1947 1949 Dumont
The Jack Eigen Show 1947 1951 Dumont
Chicagoland Mystery Players 1947 July 23, 1950 WGN-TV
Small Fry Club 1947 1951 Dumont
Juvenile Jury 1947 1954 NBC
The Swift Home Service Club May 1947 ? NBC
Doorway to Fame May 2, 1947 July 4, 1949 Dumont
Kraft Television Theater May 7, 1947 1958 NBC
King Cole's Birthday Party May 15, 1947 June 23, 1949 Dumont
In the Kelvinator Kitchen 1947 1948 NBC
The Walter Compton News June 16, 1947 January 1948 Dumont
Major League Baseball on NBC July 8, 1947 October 17, 2000 NBC
Musical Merry-Go-Round 1947 1949 NBC
Kukla, Fran and Ollie October 13, 1947 1957 KNBH
Meet the Press 1947 Still in broadcast NBC
Pantomime Quiz November 13, 1947 October 9, 1959 KTLA
Mary Kay and Johnny November 18, 1947 March 11, 1950 Dumont
Charade Quiz 1947 1949 Dumont
Television Playhouse December 4, 1947 April 11, 1948 NBC
Americana 1947 1949 NBC
Howdy Doody December 27, 1947 September 24, 1960 NBC
Eye Witness 1947 1948
Know Your New York 1947 1948 Dumont
Highway to the Stars 1947 1947 Dumont
Look Upon a Star 1947 1947 Dumont

Ending this year

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Date Show Debut
January 17 The Voice of Firestone 1943
Let's Rhumba 1946
January 26 Face to Face 1946
March Hour Glass 1946
May 16 Pinwright's Progress (UK) 1946
May 18 I Love to Eat 1946
May 27 Serving Through Science 1945
July 1 Cash and Carry 1946
October Geographically Speaking 1946
Unknown Campus Hoopla 1946

Births

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1979). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946–Present. Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-25525-9.
  2. ^ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television. Penguin Books USA, Inc. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
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