Editing 1952 in television (section)

==Events==
*January 14 – ''[[Today (American TV program)|Today]]'' is first aired on [[NBC]] in the [[United States]] with [[Dave Garroway]] as host.
*January 16 – [[Sooty]], [[Harry Corbett]]'s little yellow [[glove puppet]] [[teddy bear]], first appears on the [[BBC One|BBC Television Service]]'s Talent Night in the [[United Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite book|first=David|last=Kynaston|authorlink=David Kynaston|title=Family Britain, 1951–57|location=London|publisher=Bloomsbury|year=2009|isbn=978-0-7475-8385-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/familybritain1950000kyna/page/458 458]|url=https://archive.org/details/familybritain1950000kyna/page/458}}</ref>
*February 1 – The first [[TV detector van]] is commissioned in the U.K. as the beginning of a clampdown on the estimated 150,000 British households that watch television illegally without a licence.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/1/newsid_2521000/2521357.stm|title=Test drive for TV detector vans|publisher=BBC On This Day|accessdate=2009-05-19|date=1952-02-01|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090510040206/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/1/newsid_2521000/2521357.stm|archivedate=2009-05-10|url-status=live}}</ref>
*March 14 – The [[BBC One Scotland|BBC Television Service]] in Scotland is launched.
*May 22 – The first televised [[atomic bomb]] detonation, billed as "[[Operation Tumbler–Snapper]]", is broadcast on [[KTLA]] in [[Los Angeles]], and fed to the three major U.S. networks via a {{convert|140|mi}} microwave link.
*July 7 – Turkey's first television station, [[ITU TV]], is opened.
*July 20 – ''[[Arrow to the Heart]]'', the first collaboration between director [[Rudolph Cartier]] and scriptwriter [[Nigel Kneale]], is broadcast by [[BBC One|BBC Television]] in the United Kingdom.
*August 1 – First television broadcast in the [[Dominican Republic]] by [[La Voz Dominicana]], a station based on the radio station of the same name.
*September 6 – Television debuts in [[Canada]] with the initiation of [[CBFT]] in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]].
*September 8 – [[CBLT (TV)|CBLT]] in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]] begins broadcasting as Canada's second television station.
*September 20 – The first commercial Ultra High Frequency ([[Ultra high frequency|UHF]]) television station in the world, [[KPTV]] (later a [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] company affiliate), begins broadcasting in [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]], [[Oregon]] on channel 27.
*October 7 – [[WFIL-TV]] Philadelphia's afternoon series ''Bandstand'', which will become ''[[American Bandstand]]'', changes emphasis to teens dancing to popular records
*November 4 – [[1952 United States presidential election]]: The first political advertisements have appeared on U.S. television. [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] bought a 30-minute time segment for their candidate, [[Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai Stevenson]] but he has received unfavorable mail for interfering with a broadcast of ''[[I Love Lucy]]''. [[Dwight Eisenhower]] bought 20 second commercial segments and wins the election.
*November 16 – [[CBS Television City]] in Hollywood, California opens, the network's first studio on the U.S. west coast.
*The U.S. [[Federal Communications Commission]] reserves channels for non-commercial public broadcasting.
*There are approximately 146,000 television sets in Canada and most antennas are pointed towards [[WIVB|WBEN]]-TV (later WIVB) in [[Buffalo, New York]].