Editing 1947 in television (section)

==Events==
*January 3 – Proceedings of the [[U.S. Congress]] are televised for the first time.
*January 22 – The first commercial television station west of the [[Mississippi River]], [[KTLA]], begins operation in Hollywood.
*January 29 – [[RCA]] company demonstrates an all-electronic color television system using live images, to the US [[Federal Communications Commission]].
*January 30 – The FCC rejects [[CBS]]' color television system.
*February 10-March 11 – [[BBC]] television service in the UK is temporarily suspended due to a national fuel crisis.
*March 11 – The first successful American children's television series, ''[[Small Fry Club (television program)|Movies for Small Fry]]'' debuts on the [[DuMont Television Network|DuMont Network]].
*July 16 – RCA demonstrates the world's first all-electronic color camera to the [[Federal Communications Commission]]. (Only television receivers are present at the demonstration on January 29; the camera is at a remote studio.)
*September 30 – The opening game of the [[World Series]] is the first World Series game to be telecast. The [[1947 World Series]] is watched by an estimated 3.9 million people (many watching in bars and other public places), becoming television's first mass audience.  
*October 5 – The first telecast of a presidential address from the [[White House]]. President [[Harry S. Truman|Truman]] speaks about the world food crisis. It is preceded by a [[Jell-O]] commercial, and features the president discussing his program for food rationing. The address is televised by WTVW-TV (presently [[WJLA-TV]] Channel 7 in Washington DC) as part of its inaugural broadcast. It is also simulcast by radio. It was long believed that no copy of this broadcast existed, but segments are preserved on [[kinescope]] in the Library of Congress.  (For the record, President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Franklin Roosevelt]]'s address broadcast over [[NBC]] experimental television W2XBS—now [[WNBC]]—at the [[1939 New York World's Fair]] preceded the 1947 Truman broadcast. However, Truman's broadcast is the first from inside the White House.)
*October 13 – The puppet show series ''Junior Jamboree'', later known as ''[[Kukla, Fran and Ollie]]'', premieres on WBKB in Chicago, Illinois.
*November 6 – ''[[Meet the Press]]'' first appears as a local program in [[Washington, D.C.]]
*November 8 – Memorial service broadcast from the [[Cenotaph]] by the BBC, using tele-recording for the first time.
*The first Hollywood movie production for TV, ''The Public Prosecutor''.
*There are 250,000 television sets in use in the United States.