Editing 1946 in television (section)

==Events==
*February 4 – [[RCA]] demonstrates an all-electronic [[color television]] system.
*February 18 – The first [[Washington, D.C.]] – [[New York City]] telecast through [[AT&T Corporation|AT&T corporation]]'s [[coaxial cable]], in which General [[Dwight Eisenhower]] places a wreath at the base of the statue in the [[Lincoln Memorial]] and others make brief speeches, is termed a success by engineers, although ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine calls it "as blurred as an early Chaplin movie."
*February 25 – The prewar U.S. 18-channel [[VHF]] allocation is officially ended in favor of a new 13-channel VHF allocation due to the appropriation of some frequencies by the military and the relocation of [[FM radio]]. Only five of the old channels are the same as new channels in terms of frequency and none have the same number as before.
*April 22 – [[CBS]] transmits a Technicolor movie short and color slides by coaxial cable from Manhattan to Washington (332 kilometers) and return.
*June 7 – The [[BBC One|BBC Television Service]] begins broadcasting again for the first time since 1939. The first words heard are "Good afternoon everybody. How are you? Do you remember me, [[Jasmine Bligh]]?". Twenty minutes later, the [[Mickey Mouse]] cartoon ''Mickey's Gala Premiere'', last programme transmitted [[1939 in television|seven years earlier]] at the start of [[World War II]], is reshown.
*June 19 – The first televised heavyweight [[boxing]] title fight between [[Joe Louis]] and [[Billy Conn]] is broadcast from [[Yankee Stadium (1923)|Yankee Stadium]]. The fight is seen by 141,000 people, the largest television audience to see a boxing match to this date.
*July 7 – Broadcasting of the BBC's children's programme ''[[For The Children]]'' is resumed, one of the few pre-war programmes to resume after reintroduction of the service.
*August 4 – Children's puppet "[[Muffin the Mule]]" debuts in an episode of the series ''For the Children''. He is so popular he is given his own show later that same year.
*September 6 – Chicago's WBKB-TV (now [[WBBM-TV]]) commences broadcasting as the first [[United States|U.S.]] television station outside the [[Eastern Time Zone]].
*September 15  – [[DuMont Television Network]] begins broadcasting regularly in the [[United States]].
*October 2 – The first [[television network]] [[soap opera]], ''[[Faraway Hill]]'', is broadcast by DuMont.
*October 22 – ''[[Telecrime]]'', the first television crime series from the 1930s, is resumed by the BBC, retitled ''Telecrimes''.
*December 24 – The first Christmas church service is telecast, Grace Episcopal Church in New York, on WABD.
*Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo founds a company, which would later become [[Sony]].
*Zoomar introduces the first professional [[zoom lens]] for television cameras.
* The first postwar television sets are released by the companies [[RCA]], [[DuMont Laboratories|DuMont]], [[Crosley Broadcasting Corporation|Crosley]], and Belmont.