1931 in television

The year 1931 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1931.

Events

• May 1 – The first wedding is broadcast on television, on New York City's W2XCR.
• July 21 – CBS's station W2XAB began broadcasting 28 hours a week in New York City. [1]

October 30: NBC on Empire State Building which had opened in May 1931

• August – At the Berlin Radio Show, Manfred von Ardenne gives the world's first public demonstration of a television system using a cathode-ray tube for both transmission and reception. Ardenne never develops a camera tube, using the CRT instead as a flying-spot scanner to scan slides and film.^[1]
• October 9 – Canada's first television station, VE9EC, begins broadcasting in Montreal, Quebec. VE9EC was owned jointly by radio station CKAC and the newspaper La Presse.^[2]
• October 30 – NBC installs a television transmitter on top of the Empire State Building.
• November 1 – Television images are transmitted from JOAK radio station in Tokyo, Japan by Professors Kenjiro Takayagani and Tomomasa Nakashima. The still images comprise 80 lines at 20 frames per second.
• December 22 – NBC begins broadcasting experimental test transmissions from the Empire State Building transmitter.
• December 23 – Don Lee Broadcasting signs on W6XAO (later KTSL) from Los Angeles with low-definition electromechanical television, broadcasting one hour of film footage, six days per week.

Debuts

• The Television Ghost premieres on the experimental W2XAB (1931–1933).

Television shows

Births

• January 13 – Charles Nelson Reilly, actor, game show panelist (died 2007)
• January 14 -[Himanshu Dev],engineer
• January 17 – James Earl Jones, actor
• January 19 – Robert MacNeil, news reporter
• February 13 – Geoff Edwards, game show host
• March 11 – Rupert Murdoch, media mogul
• March 22 – William Shatner, actor
• March 26 – Leonard Nimoy, actor
• March 27 – David Janssen, actor (died 1980)
• April 6 – Ivan Dixon, actor (died 2008)
• April 26 – Bernie Brillstein, agent, producer (died 2008)
• May 23 – Barbara Barrie, actress
• June 8 – Dana Wynter, actress
• June 14 – Marla Gibbs, actress
• June 20 – Martin Landau, actor
• July 6 – Della Reese, actress, singer
• July 8 – Roone Arledge, producer (died 2002)
• July 27 – Jerry Van Dyke, actor
• July 28 – Darryl Hickman, actor
• August 25 – Regis Philbin, talk show host
• September 4 – Mitzi Gaynor, singer, actress
• September 10 – Philip Baker Hall, actor
• September 13 – Barbara Bain, actress
• September 21 – Larry Hagman, actor
• September 30 – Angie Dickinson, actress
• October 31 – Dan Rather, news reporter
• November 8 – Morley Safer, news reporter
• November 12 – Dick Clair, writer (died 1988)
• December 3 – Jaye P. Morgan, game show panelist
• December 11 – Rita Moreno, actress
• December 23 – Ronnie Schell, comedian
• December 28 – Martin Milner, actor

References

1. ^ Albert Abramson, Zworykin: Pioneer of Television, University of Illinois Press, 1995, p. 111.
2. ^ "CRTC Origins". Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. 2008-09-05. http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/backgrnd/brochures/b19903.htm. Retrieved 2009-11-15.