1943 in television

The year 1943 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1943.

Events

• May 8 – Opening of Paris Télévision – Fernsehsender Paris, a channel operated by German occupation authorities (Kurt Hinzmann, former director of Fernsehsender „Paul Nipkow“) after an agreement between Telefunken and Compagnie des Compteurs, with a (German) 441-line standard. Local French programmes and Fernsehsender „Paul Nipkow“ programmes were interlaced.
• June – Work is begun for the U.S. Army Air Forces to develop a remotely-controlled glide bomb guided by a radio receiver and a television transmitter using a 625-line iconoscope tube. The first are completed in July and tested in August.
• December 23 – The first complete opera, Hansel and Gretel, is telecast, by WRGB in Schenectady.
• The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is formed. Its television network debuts in 1948.
• Germany experiments with a flying bomb guided by a television camera, created by Fernseh, using both the Superikonoscope and the Farnsworth image dissector.

Debuts

• The Voice of Firestone Televues (1943–1947; renamed The Voice of Firestone, running from 1949 to 1963).

Television shows

Births

• January 1 – Don Novello, actor, Saturday Night Live.
• January 13 – Richard Moll, actor, Night Court.
• January 23 – Gil Gerard, actor.
• January 24 – Sharon Tate, actress, model (d. 1969)
• January 28 – John Beck, actor.
• February 27 – Mary Frann, actress (d. 1998).
• March 18 – Kevin Dobson, actor.
• March 29 – Eric Idle, actor, comedian.
• May 24 – Gary Burghoff, actor.
• May 27 – Bruce Weitz, actor.
• May 31 – Sharon Gless, actress.
• June 16 – Joan Van Ark, actress.
• July 3 – Kurtwood Smith, actor.
• July 31 – Susan Flannery, actress.
• August 2 – Max Wright, actor.
• October 8 – Chevy Chase, actor, comedian, Saturday Night Live.
• October 27 – Carmen Argenziano, actor, Stargate SG-1.
• November 20 – Veronica Hamel, actress.
• December 23 – Harry Shearer, actor, Saturday Night Live, This Is Spinal Tap, The Simpsons.
• December 28 – Richard Whiteley, presenter (d. 2005).