1933 in television

The year 1933 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1933.

Events

• January 23 – W9XAL in Kansas City begins broadcasting.
• January 24 – John Cameron Swayze begins his daily Journal-Post News Flashes on W9XAL, which is simulcast on KMBC radio.
• April 21 – The first television revue, Looking In, is shown on the BBC. The first four minutes of this programme survive on a Silvatone record, an early method of home video recording.
• August 4? – W9XAT in Minneapolis, Minnesota makes its first transmission.
• RCA conducts private field tests in Camden, New Jersey of an electronic television system.

Ending this year

• The Television Ghost (1931–1933).

Television shows

Births

• January 8 – Charles Osgood, journalist.
• January 17 – Shari Lewis, puppeteer (died 1998),
• February 2 – Tony Jay, actor (died 2006)
• March 19 – Phyllis Newman, actress, game show panelist.
  • Renée Taylor, actress.
• April 5 – Frank Gorshin, actor. (died 2005)
• April 7 – Wayne Rogers, actor, financial commentator.
• April 26 – Carol Burnett, actor, comedian
• May 7 – Roger Perry, actor.
• May 20 – Constance Towers, actress.
• May 21 – Richard Libertini, actor.
• May 23 – Joan Collins, actress.
• June 8 – Joan Rivers, comedian.
• June 20 – Danny Aiello, actor.
• June 21 – Bernie Kopell, actor.
• July 11 – Bob McGrath, actor, singer.
• July 23 – Bert Convy, game show host (died 1991).
• July 30 – Edd Byrnes, actor.
• August 1 – Dom DeLuise, actor, comedian. (died 2009)
• August 11 – Jerry Falwell, televangelist (died 2007)
• August 15 – Jim Lange, game show host.
• August 16 – Julie Newmar, actress.
• August 25 – Tom Skerritt, actor.
• August 27 – Janet McLachlan, actress.
• September 13 – Eileen Fulton, actress.
• September 18 – Robert Blake, actor.
• September 26 – Donna Douglas, actress.
• September 27 – Greg Morris, actor (died 1996)
  • Kathleen Nolan, actress.
• November 3 – Jeremy Brett, actor (Sherlock Holmes in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) (died 1995)
  • Ken Berry, actor.
• November 5 – Herb Edelman, actor (died 1996)
• November 19 – Larry King, talk show host.
• November 28 – Hope Lange, actress (died 2003)
• December 8 – Flip Wilson, comedian (died 1998).
• December 15 – Tim Conway, comedian.
• December 26 – Carroll Spinney, puppeteer.