Editing 1953 in television (section)

==Events==
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*January 19 – 68% of all U.S. television sets are tuned in to ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' to watch Lucy give birth to little Ricky.
*January 23 – TP1, a predecessor of [[TVP1]], a member of [[Telewizja Polska]], becomes the first [[television station]] in [[Poland]] when it officially begins a regular broadcasting service, from [[Warsaw]].
*February 1
**Japanese television begins when [[NHK|JOAK-TV]] begins broadcasting from Tokyo.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nhk.or.jp/digitalmuseum/nhk50years_en/history/p06/index.html|title=50 Years of NHK Television|website=NHK|access-date=August 7, 2022|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040313200855/https://www.nhk.or.jp/digitalmuseum/nhk50years_en/history/p06/index.html|archive-date=March 13, 2004}}</ref>
**[[General Electric Theater]] airs for the first time on [[CBS]].
*February 18 – [[Lucille Ball]] and [[Desi Arnaz]] sign an $8,000,000 contract to continue the ''I Love Lucy'' [[television series]] through 1955.
*February 26 – [[Fulton J. Sheen]], on his program ''[[Life Is Worth Living]]'', reads Shakespeare's ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'', with the names of high-ranking [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet]] officials replacing the main characters. At the end of the reading, Sheen intones that "[[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] must one day meet his judgment". Stalin dies one week later.
*March 17 – [[Patrick Troughton]] becomes television's first [[Robin Hood]], playing the eponymous folk hero in the first of six half-hour episodes of ''Robin Hood'', shown weekly until April 21 on the [[BBC One|BBC Television Service]].
*March 19 – The [[25th Academy Awards]] is broadcast by [[NBC]] in the U.S. This becomes the first [[Academy Awards]] ceremony to be televised.
*March 25 – CBS concedes victory to [[RCA]] in the war over [[color television]] standards.
*April 3 – ''[[TV Guide]]'' is published for the first time in the United States, with 10 editions and a circulation of 1,562,000.
*May 1 – [[Czech Television|Czechoslovak Television]] becomes the first television station in the country when it officially begins a regular broadcasting service, from [[Prague]]; this station will separate into [[Czech Television]] and [[Slovenská televízia]] in January 1993. 
*May 25 – [[KUHT]] in [[Houston]] becomes the first non-commercial educational TV station in the United States.
*June 2 – The [[Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II]] is televised by the BBC from London. Sales of TV sets in the United Kingdom rise sharply in the weeks leading up to the event. It is also one of the earliest broadcasts to be deliberately recorded for posterity and still exists in its entirety. More than twenty million viewers around the world watch the coverage;<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/2/newsid_2654000/2654501.stm|title=On This Day: Queen Elizabeth takes coronation oath|website=BBC News|publisher=BBC|access-date=2014-04-28|date=1953-06-02}}</ref> to ensure Canadians could see it on the same day, British [[Royal Air Force]] [[English Electric Canberra|Canberra]]s fly film of the ceremony across the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to be broadcast by the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archives.cbc.ca/society/monarchy/topics/70/|title=Society > The Monarchy > Canada's New Queen > Coronation of Queen Elizabeth > The Story|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=2009-12-17}}</ref> the first non-stop flight between the United Kingdom and the Canadian mainland. In [[Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador|Goose Bay, Labrador]], the film is transferred to a [[Royal Canadian Air Force]] [[Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck|CF-100]] jet fighter for the further trip to [[Montreal]]. In all, three such voyages are made as the coronation proceeds.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archives.cbc.ca/society/monarchy/topics/70/|author=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|author-link=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation| title=Society > The Monarchy > Canada's New Queen > Coronation of Queen Elizabeth > Did You Know?|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=2009-12-17}}</ref>
*July 18 
**''[[The Quatermass Experiment]]'', first of the famous ''[[Bernard Quatermass|Quatermass]]'' science-fiction serials by [[Nigel Kneale]], begins its run on the [[BBC One|BBC]] in the U.K.
**''[[The Tonight Show]]'' begins as a local [[New York City|New York]] [[variety show]], originally titled ''The Knickerbocker Beer Show''.
*August 28 – [[Nippon Television]], becomes the first regular broadcast service to start in [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]].<ref>[[Nippon TV#History]] Retrieved January 13, 2017.</ref> The first program is ''[[Hato no kyujitsu]]''.
*August 30 – NBC's ''[[Kukla, Fran, and Ollie]]'' is the first publicly announced experimental broadcast of a program in RCA compatible color.
*September 27 – [[RecordTV]], a major [[free-to-air]] [[television network]] in [[Brazil]], becomes the first official regular broadcasting service to start in [[São Paulo]].<ref>[[RecordTV#History#1950s: Beginnings]] Retrieved January 13, 2017.</ref>
*October 18 – A [[King Lear (1953 TV drama)|live television adaptation of the Shakespeare play ''King Lear'']] starring [[Orson Welles]] is aired on [[CBS]] as part of the [[Omnibus (U.S. TV series)|''Omnibus'']] series.
*October 19 – American CBS presenter [[Arthur Godfrey]] dismisses singer [[Julius La Rosa]] live on air on the radio-only segment of his morning show.<ref>{{cite web|first=Elizabeth|last=Ahlfors|url=http://www.juliuslarosa.com/julie'sstory.html|title=Julie's Story|website=Juliuslarosa.com|access-date=2014-08-09|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107180520/http://juliuslarosa.com/julie%27sstory.html|archive-date=2014-11-07}}</ref>
*October 23 – [[Alto Broadcasting System]] of the [[Philippines]] makes the first television broadcast in [[Southeast Asia]] through [[DZAQ-TV]]. Alto Broadcasting System is the predecessor of what is now [[ABS-CBN Corporation]].
*November 15 – [[Radio Caracas Television]] (RCTV) becomes the first television station in [[Venezuela]] when it officially begins a regular broadcast service.  
*November 22 – RCA airs (with special permission from the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) in the U.S.) the first commercial color program in compatible color, ''[[The Colgate Comedy Hour]] with Donald O'Connor''.
*November 26 – NBC broadcasts its first national telecast of the [[Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade]].
*December 2 – BBC broadcasts its 'Television Symbol' for the first time, the first animated [[television presentation]] symbol.
*December 12 – The [[DuMont Television Network]] televises its first ever [[National Basketball Association]] game with the [[1953–54 Boston Celtics season|Boston Celtics]] defeating the [[1953–54 Baltimore Bullets season|Baltimore Bullets]] 106–75. This marked the first year the NBA had a national television contract. This was the only year of [[NBA on DuMont|NBA coverage on DuMont]]; the Saturday afternoon package moved to [[NBA on NBC|NBC]] for the {{nbay|1954}} season, mainly because NBC could clear the games on far more [[List of NBC television affiliates (by U.S. state)|stations]] that [[List of former DuMont Television Network affiliates|DuMont]] could.
*December 17 – The [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]] reverses its 1951 decision and approves the RCA/[[NTSC]] color system.
*December 24 – ''[[Dragnet (drama)|Dragnet]]'' becomes the first filmed drama to be televised in color each year as a network [[television]] program. However, only this one episode, entitled "The Big Little Jesus", is filmed in color during the 1950s; the show returns in the late 1960s in color.