Editing 1940 in television (section)

==Events==
*January – The [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]] has public hearings concerning [[television]].
*January 12 - The first network telecast, a play entitled "Meet The Wife," is televised by NBC over [[WNBC|W2XBS]] ([[NBC]]) and [[WRGB|W2XB]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/east_midwest_connection/|title=Early Networks and the East-Midwest Connection - TVObscurities|date=November 12, 2009|website=Television Obscurities}}</ref>
*February 25 – The first [[ice hockey]] game is televised in the United States, the [[New York Rangers]] vs [[Montreal Canadiens]], from [[Madison Square Garden (1925)|Madison Square Garden]] on W2XBS-TV.
*February 28 – The first basketball game is televised, from [[Madison Square Garden (1925)|Madison Square Garden]]: [[Fordham University]] vs the [[University of Pittsburgh]].
*March 10 – The [[Metropolitan Opera]] broadcast for the first time from NBC studios at [[Rockefeller Center]] an abridged performance of the first act of ''[[Pagliacci]]'', along with excerpts from four other operas.
*March 15 – [[RCA]] reduces the price of television sets.
*May 21 – [[Bell Telephone Laboratories]] transmits a 441-line video signal, with a bandwidth of 2.7 MHz, by coaxial cable from New York to Philadelphia and back.
*June – [[WNBC-TV|W2XBS]] in New York ([[NBC]]) covers the [[1940 Republican National Convention|Republican National Convention]] from [[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania for 33 hours, during a five-day period. The signal is transmitted via [[coaxial cable]].
*August 1 – [[W2XBS]] goes out of commission from 1 August 1940 until the 27th of October 1940 while the transmitter is adjusted from 441-line picture to 525-line picture. <ref>Television Station to be shut-down; station to be remodelled. New York, NY: New York Times. Sunday, 21 July 1940. Page 10X, col. 8.</ref><ref>Television Station to Reopen.  New York, NY: New York Times.  Wednesday, 23 October 1940. Page L25, col 8. </ref>
*August 29 – [[Peter Carl Goldmark]] of [[CBS]] announces his invention of a [[color television]] system.
*September 3 – [[CBS]] resumes its television transmissions with the first demonstration of high definition color TV, by W2XAB, transmitting from the [[Chrysler Building]].
*November 5 - First televised Presidential election coverage is carried by [[WNBC|W2XBS]] ([[NBC]]) and [[WNYW|W2XWV]] ([[DuMont Television Network|DuMont]]).