Editing 1948 in television (section)

== Events ==
* (undated) - The Ziv Company creates [[Ziv Company#Television|Ziv Television Programs]] as a subsidiary specializing in the production of original television programs for syndication.<ref name="et">{{cite book|last1=Newcomb|first1=Horace|title=Encyclopedia of Television|date=2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135194796|pages=2626–2627|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JUzIAgAAQBAJ&q=%22Ziv+Company%22+radio&pg=PA2627|access-date=10 January 2017|language=en|chapter=Ziv Television Programs, Inc.}}</ref>
* February 9 - [[WLWT]], Cincinnati, Ohio, begins commercial broadcasting, changing its call letters from experimental station W8XCT.<ref>{{cite news|title=Cincinnati's T-Day Observed Feb. 15|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1948/1948-02-23-BC.pdf|access-date=8 November 2014|agency=Broadcasting|date=February 23, 1948}}</ref>
* March 4 - First American television ratings are released by [[C. E. Hooper]].<ref name="firsthooper">(8 March 1948). [www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1948/1948-03-08-BC.pdf TV 'Amateur Hour' Gets 46.8 Rating], ''Broadcasting'', p. 42</ref><ref name="magic">Von Schilling, Jim. [https://books.google.com/books?id=_4osBgAAQBAJ The Magic Window: American Television, 1939-53], p. 100 (2013)</ref>
* March 20 – Renowned Italian conductor [[Arturo Toscanini]] makes his television debut, conducting the [[NBC Symphony Orchestra]] in the U.S. in a program featuring the works of [[Richard Wagner]].
* April 3 – [[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Beethoven's Symphony No. 9]] is played on television in its entirety for the first time in a concert featuring Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The chorus is conducted by [[Robert Shaw (conductor)|Robert Shaw]].
* May 3 – The first network nightly newscast, CBS Television News, debuts on [[CBS]] with [[Douglas Edwards]] as journalist.
* June 21 - The first network telecasts of political conventions from [[Philadelphia]].
* July 29 – The [[BBC One|BBC Television Service]] begins its coverage of the 1948 [[1948 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]] in London by broadcasting the opening ceremony. From now until the closing ceremony on August 14 the BBC will broadcast an average three and a half hours a day of live coverage from the games, using a special [[coaxial cable]] linking the main venue at [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley Stadium]] to the television service's base at [[Alexandra Palace]]. This is the most ambitious sustained outside broadcast yet attempted by the BBC and is completed without serious problems.
* August 10 - [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] establishes its [[WABC-TV|first television station]] in New York.
* August 25 – First-ever congressional hearing is televised: "Confrontation Day" between [[Alger Hiss]] and [[Whittaker Chambers]] before the House Un-American Activities Committee ([[HUAC]])
* November 4 - Moscow TV facility adopted a new 625 line [[PAL]] television standard.
*November 25 - The earliest known national telecast of the [[Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade]] is broadcast by CBS.
* November 29
** [[Roller Derby]] is broadcast from NY on the [[CBS]] television network.
** The television puppet show series ''[[Kukla, Fran and Ollie]]'' is transferred to the [[NBC]] Midwest Network.
* December 18 — [[WDSU]] TV channel 6, NBC affiliate, becomes the first station in the [[Deep South]] in [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]]
* CBS begins network programming.
* Television manufacturing begins in Canada.
* Telecasts of the [[NBC Symphony Orchestra]], begin until 1954.
* The number of homes in the U.S. that own a television set reaches one million.