Editing 1939 in television (section)

==Events==
*March 4 – The [[BBC One|BBC Television Service]] broadcasts one of the first [[television play]]s specially written for the medium, ''[[Condemned To Be Shot]]'' by R. E. J. Brooke, live from its London studios at [[Alexandra Palace]]. The production is notable for the use of a camera as the first-person perspective of the play's unseen main character.
*March 27 – The [[BBC]] broadcasts the entirety of ''[[Magyar Melody]]'' live from [[His Majesty's Theatre, London|His Majesty's Theatre]] in London. The 175-minute broadcast is the first showing of a full-length musical by television.
*April 
**Television demonstrations are held at the [[1939 New York World's Fair]] on Long Island and the Golden Gate International Exhibition in San Francisco.
**RCA, General Electric, Dumont and others begin selling television sets to the public in the New York City area. Screen sizes typically range from 5 to 12 inches, and Dumont features 14-inch and 16-inch models.  Prices start at $200 and go as high as $1000. 
*April 30 – [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], appearing at the opening ceremony of the [[1939 New York World's Fair]], becomes the first President of the United States to give a speech that is broadcast by television.
*May 3 – The [[Walt Disney]] cartoon ''[[Donald's Cousin Gus]]'' airs on [[NBC]]'s experimental station W2XBS (later [[WNBC-TV]]) in New York. This marks the first movie cartoon to be televised in the United States.
*May 17 – The first baseball game to be televised ([[Princeton University]] vs. [[Columbia University]]) is broadcast, from [[Baker Field]] in New York. [[Bill Stern]] is the [[announcer]].
*June 1 – The first heavyweight [[boxing]] match to be televised ([[Max Baer (boxer)|Max Baer]] vs [[Lou Nova]]) is broadcast, from [[Yankee Stadium (1923)|Yankee Stadium]] in the Bronx.
*August 26
**The first [[Major League Baseball]] game to be televised (a double-header between the [[Cincinnati Reds]] and the [[Brooklyn Dodgers]]) is broadcast, from [[Ebbets Field]] in [[Brooklyn]], New York.
**Poland broadcasts a feature film for the first time—''[[Barbara Radziwiłłówna (film)|Barbara Radziwiłłówna]]'' (1936)—using the experimental transmitter mounted atop the [[Prudential building in Warsaw]].
*August 31 – 18,999 television sets have been sold in England before manufacture stops due to World War II.
*September 1 – The anticipated outbreak of World War II brings television broadcasting at the [[BBC One|BBC]] in Britain to an end at 12:35&nbsp;p.m. after the broadcast of a [[Mickey Mouse]] cartoon, ''[[Mickey's Gala Premier]]'', various sound and vision test signals, and announcements by presenter Fay Cavendish. It is feared that the [[VHF]] waves of television would act as a homing signal for guiding enemy bombers to central London: in any case, the engineers of the television service would be needed for the war effort, particularly for development of [[radar]]. The BBC would resume its broadcasting, with the same ''Mickey Mouse'' cartoon, after the war in 1946.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5054802.stm|title = Back after the break|date = 7 June 2006}}</ref>
*September 30 – [[1939 Waynesburg vs. Fordham football game]]: The first [[American football]] game to be televised (between college teams [[Fordham University]] and [[Waynesburg College]]) is broadcast, from [[Randall's Island]], New York.
*October 22 – The first [[National Football League]] game to be televised (The Brooklyn Dodgers vs. [[Philadelphia Eagles]]) is broadcast, from Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.
*November 8 – [[CBS]] television station [[WCBS-TV|W2XAB]] resumes test transmission with an all-electronic system broadcast from the top of the [[Chrysler Building]] in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|title=Early Television Stations – W2XAB/W2XAX/WCBW – CBS, New York|url=http://www.earlytelevision.org/w2xab.html|work=Early Television Museum|location=Hilliard, Ohio|access-date=2014-11-26}}</ref>
*November 23 – The earliest known live telecast of the [[Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade]] is broadcast locally in New York.