Editing 1954 in television (section)

==Events==
*January 1 – [[NBC]] broadcasts the [[Rose Parade]] from Pasadena, California in [[NTSC]] color.  The broadcast uses a new mobile color TV studio (truck) and the program is carried across the continent on 21 stations.  [[RCA]] strategically places Color TV sets in public viewing areas such as hotel lobbies because the first sets only become available to the public in the spring.
*January 3 – [[Rai 1|Programma Nazionale]] began transmissions in [[Italy]], making it the first TV network in Italian television.
*January 5 – WAYS-TV, predecessor of [[WCCB]], signed on the air. It was North Carolina's second UHF station (after [[WNAO-TV]] in [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]]), as well as the second television station in the Charlotte market.
*January 10 – [[CBMT]] opens in [[Montreal]], making that city the first in Canada to have 2 stations operating. The new station uses the English language, leaving [[CBFT]] to continue entirely in French.
*January 11 – The first weather forecast with an in-vision presenter is televised in the [[United Kingdom|UK]].
*January 12 – Experimental television begins in [[Norway]].
*February 28 – [[Television_in_Morocco#History|Telma]] became the first television station in Morocco. It was closed down after 15 months on the air and was left without an official TV station until 1962.
*March 28 – [[WKAQ-TV]] became the first television station in [[Puerto Rico]].
*April – The [[American Broadcasting Company]] broadcasts the Army-McCarthy hearings live and in their entirety.
*May 1
**[[WAPA-TV]] becomes the second television station in [[Puerto Rico]].
**[[RTS 1 (Swiss TV channel)|Télévision suisse romande TSR]] is launched as the first Italian broadcaster in Switzerland.
*May 17–23 – One week (the so-called "Sandrewsveckan" or "Sandrews week") of experimental television broadcasts are aired in Sweden, the first such programs in the country.
*June 5 – The last new episode of the comic variety program, ''[[Your Show of Shows]]'', airs.
*June 6 – The [[Eurovision (network)|Eurovision]] network makes its first ''official'' transmission: it broadcasts the Narcissus Festival in [[Montreux]], Switzerland, followed by an evening program from Rome, including a tour of the [[Vatican City]], an address from [[Pope Pius XII]] and an [[apostolic blessing]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ebu.ch/CMSimages/en/dossiers_1_04_eurovision50_ve_tcm6-13890.pdf|title=50 Years of Eurovision|date=January 2004|access-date=2011-08-13|archive-date=2016-08-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160813012304/http://www.ebu.ch/CMSimages/en/dossiers_1_04_eurovision50_ve_tcm6-13890.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=1954-06-02|title='Eurovision' Bows Ushering in Era|page=1|url=https://archive.org/stream/variety194-1954-06#page/n64/mode/1up|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref>
*June 13 – Canal Nacional, predecessor of [[Canal 1]], launched as the first [[television in Colombia|Colombian]] television station.
*July 5 – First actual news bulletin, ''News and Newsreel'', aired on [[BBC One|BBC Television]], replacing ''[[Television Newsreel]]''.
*September 11 – The [[Miss America]] Beauty Contest airs for the first time on national television in the [[United States]]. 27 million viewers watched as [[Lee Meriwether|Lee Ann Meriwether]] wins the title. Meriwether would later become a television actress, co-starring in ''[[Barnaby Jones]]'' (1973–1980).
*September 16 – [[CBET-DT]] began transmissions as CKLW-TV at 2:50 p.m., it was the first television station in Windsor.
*September 26 – [[WCAX-TV]] signs on the air as WMVT, making it the first television station in Vermont.
*October 2 – ''[[The Jimmy Durante Show]]'' premieres on NBC (1954–1956).
*October 29 – [[Sveriges Radio]] begins broadcasting TV in Sweden and apart from news and a weather forecast, the first Swedish TV programme is "En skål för televisionen" ("A Toast to Television") led by [[Lennart Hyland]]. For the first few months (until spring 1955), Swedish TV is broadcast one evening a week and for about an hour each time.
*November 3 – [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]]'s ''[[Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' airs on ABC in the United States.
*November 6 – [[Latvijas Televīzija|LTV]] began broadcasting for the first time in Latvia and the oldest in the [[Baltic states|Baltic countries]].
*November 19 – [[TMC (TV channel)|Télé Monte-Carlo]] launched in [[Monaco]], the first microstate to have a television network.
*December 12 – BBC Television broadcasts its famous, and controversial, adaptation of [[George Orwell]]'s novel ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four (UK TV programme)|Nineteen Eighty-Four]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=George Orwell’s 1984 broadcast |url=https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/december/1984 |website=bbc.com |access-date=4 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*The [[Television Act 1954]] authorises setting up the infrastructure for British commercial television.
*The [[British Academy Television Awards]], the most prestigious awards of the British television industry, are first awarded.
*The [[RCA]] [[CT-100]] and Westinghouse 15" color sets hit the market. Neither are big sellers.