Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index See also: 1945 in television, other events of 1946, 1947 in television and the list of 'years in television'. Table of contents 1 Hit Television Shows 2 Other Popular Television Shows 3 Events 4 Births 5 Deaths Hit Television Shows Other Popular Television Shows May 9 - The first variety show premieres, Hour Glass, on NBC. October 2 - The first television network soap opera, Faraway Hill, airs on the DuMont network. Events February 4 – RCA demonstrates all-electronic color television system. February 18 - The first Washington - New York telecast through AT&T coaxial cable is termed success by engineers and viewers. April 22 - CBS color television program is successfully transmitted over a 450-mile coaxial cable link from New York to Washington June 7 - The BBC begins broadcasting again, and reshows the Mickey Mouse cartoon, that had been interrupted seven years earlier at the start of the World War II. June 19 - The first televised heavyweight boxing title fight between Joe Louis and Billy Conn is broadcast from Yankee Stadium. The fight was seen by 141,000 people, the largest television audience to see a fight. December 24 - The first church service is telecast, Grace Episcopal Church in New York, on WABD. Tokyo Tushin Kogyo founded, which would later become Sony Zoomar introduces the first professional zoom lens Births January 20 - David Lynch, film director June 28 - Gilda Radner, actress, comedian, Saturday Night Live Deaths This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.