1952 in television

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

Events

• February 15 – The funeral of King George VI is televised in the UK.
• 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)^[1]
• 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)

Ending during 1952

Births

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