The year 1954 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1954. [edit] Events - January 1 - NBC broadcasts the Rose Parade in NTSC color on 21 stations.
- January 3 - RAI launched in Italy.
- January 10 - CBMT opens in Montreal, making that city the first in Canada to have 2 stations operating. The new station operates in English, leaving CBFT to continue entirely in French. Thus begins Canada's "two nations" approach to TV.
- January 11 - The first weather forecast with an in-vision presenter is televised in the UK.
- March 28 - WKAQ-TV became the first television station in Puerto Rico.
- April - The American Broadcasting Company broadcasts the Army-McCarthy hearings live and in their entirety.
- June 5 - The last new episode of the comic variety program, Your Show of Shows, airs.
- June 13 - First television broadcast begins in Colombia.
- July 5 - First actual news bulletin, News and Newsreel, aired on BBC Television, replacing Television Newsreel.
- September 11 - The Miss America Beauty Contest airs for the first time on national television in the United States. 27 million viewers watched as Lee Ann Meriwether won the crown. Meriwether would later become a television actress, co-starring in Barnaby Jones in the 1970s.
- November 3 - Disney's Alice in Wonderland airs on ABC.
- December 12 - BBC Television screens its famous, and controversial, adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
- Television Act 1954 authorises setting up the infrastructure for British commercial television.
- The British Academy Television Awards, the most prestigious awards in the British television industry, are first awarded.
[edit] Debuts [edit] Television shows listed by starting year [edit] Ending this year [edit] Births - January 5 - Pamela Sue Martin, actress.
- January 12 - Howard Stern, radio & TV host.
- January 19 - Katey Sagal, actress (Married... with Children).
- January 22 - Chris Lemmon, actor (Duet and Open House).
- January 29 - Oprah Winfrey, actress and talk-show host.
- February 2 - Christie Brinkley, model & actress.
- February 15 - Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama.
- February 17 - Rene Russo, actress.
- March 1 - Ron Howard, actor, director.
- April 7 - Jackie Chan, Hong Kong actor.
- April 29 - Jerry Seinfeld, actor and comedian.
- June 15 - James Belushi, actor.
- September 8 - Anne Diamond, television presenter.
- October 9 - Scott Bakula, American television actor.
- October 14 - Tanya Roberts, American actress.
- December 28 - Denzel Washington, actor.
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