Editing 1958 in television (section)

==Events==
*January 1 – Suomen Televisio, later known as [[Yle TV1]], begins regular broadcasting.<ref>[[Yle TV1#History]] Retrieved January 13, 2017.</ref>
*January 28 – Short-lived station [[KTRX (TV)|KTRX]] signs on the air in Kennewick, Washington.
*January 14 – [[Television Wales and the West]] (TWW), the first [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] franchise for [[South Wales]] and [[West of England]], begins broadcasting.
*January 17 – [[TV Peru]], the first television channel in [[Peru]], begins operations.<ref>[[TV Perú#Story]] Retrieved January 13, 2017.</ref>
*January 25 – [[Royal Thai Army Radio and Television Channel 5|Royal Thai Channel 5]], officially launched in [[Bangkok]], [[Thailand]].<ref>[[Royal Thai Army Radio and Television Channel 5#History]] Retrieved January 13, 2017.</ref>
*February 17 – Pope [[Pius XII]] designates [[St. Clare of Assisi]] the patron saint of television. Thereafter, placing her icon on a television set was said to improve reception.[http://www.cbc.ca/hdtv/history.html]
*April 19 – Chronicle Broadcasting Network, the predecessor of [[ABS-CBN Corporation]] in the Philippines, launches DZXL-TV Channel 9.
*April 30 – [[Moldova 1|Moldova TV]] signs on the air at 19:00, making it the very first television network in Moldova.
*May 2 – CCTV-1 began on an experimental basis as Peking Television.
*July 1 – The [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] (CBC) links television broadcasting across [[Canada]]. The CBC's microwave network between Nova Scotia and British Columbia, completed this year, makes it the longest in the world.
* July 3 – The "Telecopter", a [[Bell Model 47]] rented by [[television station]] [[KTLA]] in Los Angeles, and outfitted with a television camera, makes the world's first flight by a [[television news]] helicopter. Following a technical failure, it makes its first successful news flight the following day.<ref>Pool, Bob, "Obituary: John D. Silva, 92; TV Engineer Devised the World's First News Helicopter," ''The Washington Post'', December 11, 2012, p. B6.</ref>
*August 23 – Television Belgrade, as predecessor for [[RTS1]], a first regular [[Television station|television broadcasting station]] officially service start in [[Serbia]], former part of [[Yugoslavia]].<ref>[[:sr:РТС 1#Историјат]] (Serbian language) Retrieved date on October 3, 2017.</ref>  
*August 30 – [[Southern Television]], the ITV franchise for South Central and [[South East England]], begins broadcasting.
*September 16 – [[Orson Welles]]'s ''[[The Fountain of Youth (film)|The Fountain of Youth]]'' is broadcast on NBC-TV's ''[[Colgate Theatre (1949 TV series)|Colgate Theatre]]''.<ref name="TIOW">Welles, Orson, and [[Peter Bogdanovich]], edited by [[Jonathan Rosenbaum]], ''[[This is Orson Welles]]''. New York: HarperCollins Publishers 1992 {{ISBN|0-06-016616-9}}</ref>{{Rp|424–425}} Filmed in 1956 for a proposed [[Desilu Productions|Desilu]] series, the half-hour program airs only once and becomes the only unsold pilot ever to win a [[List of Peabody Award winners (1950–59)#1958|Peabody Award]].<ref>Adams, Val, "Peabody Awards for 1958 Listed". ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 8, 1959.</ref><ref name="Arnaz">[[Desi Arnaz|Arnaz, Desi]]. ''A Book''. New York: William Morrow, 1976. {{ISBN|0688003427}}</ref>{{Rp|307}}
*[[Autumn|Fall]] – The [[quiz show scandals]] resulted in the cancellation of the original big-money game show, CBS' "[[The $64,000 Question]]", and creating havoc within the US television industry.
*October 1 – [[Shanghai Television]], as early [[television station]] launched in [[China]], first regular service to start.<ref>[[:zh:上海电视台#历史]] (Chinese language) Retrieved January 14, 2017.</ref>
*October 3 – Television Iran, as predecessor of [[IRIB TV1]], a first regular program service television broadcasting station launched in [[Iran]].{{citation needed|date=November 2020}} 
*October 17 – [[Fred Astaire]] makes his TV starring debut in the NBC special, ''An Evening with Fred Astaire'', which later won nine Emmy Awards and is one of the first TV specials to be preserved on videotape.
*September 20 – Radio Valencia Televisión signs on the air in Venezuela with test transmissions began on April 30.
*November 30 – During the live broadcast of the ''[[Armchair Theatre]]'' play ''[[Underground (1958 TV play)|Underground]]'' on the ITV network in the [[United Kingdom|UK]], actor [[Gareth Jones (actor)|Gareth Jones]] suffers a fatal heart attack between two of his scenes while in make-up.
*December 15 – Channel 4, the flagship station of [[América Televisión]], as well as the first every privately owned [[television station]] in [[Peru]], begins officially regular broadcasting service first to viewers in [[Lima]].<ref>[[América Televisión]] Retrieved January 7, 2017.</ref>
*[[SF DRS]], the German-language Swiss television channel, debuts.
*[[Ampex]] demonstrates their design for a color [[video tape recorder]].
*In the United Kingdom, the top-rated show of the year is the ITV game show [[Dotto]], adapted from an American game show which in turn was based on children's [[Connect the dots]] game.
*The original American version of "Dotto" was the first game show to be implicated in the [[quiz show scandals]], and was  cancelled in August.
*Top-rated prime-time game show ''[[Twenty-One (game show)|Twenty-One]]'' is cancelled by NBC in October after former contestant [[Herb Stempel]] charged that the series was rigged and that he had been ordered to lose a match to the popular [[Charles Van Doren]].
*[[DuMont Laboratories|DuMont]] company sells its television manufacturing assets to [[Emerson Radio|Emerson]] company. The quality decreases.