Editing 1959 in television (section)

==Events==
*January 15 – [[Tyne Tees Television]], the Independent Television ([[ITV (TV channel)|ITV]]) franchise for [[North East England]], begins broadcasting.
*February 1 – The earliest known [[First interracial kiss on television|interracial kiss on television]] occurs during a live performance of the play ''[[Hot Summer Night (play)|Hot Summer Night]]'', broadcast on the British [[ABC Weekend TV|ABC]] program ''[[Armchair Theatre]]'' on the [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] network. The kiss is between [[Andrée Melly]] and [[Lloyd Reckord]], the latter of whom would be featured in another early televised interracial kiss three years later in the play ''[[You in Your Small Corner]]''.
*February 1 – [[TV Asahi|Nihon Educational Television]] begins operating to the Kanto region of Japan, operating as a for-profit educational television station for its first year.
*March 1 &ndash; [[Fuji Television]] commences its regular operations in Japan.<ref>[[Fuji Television#History of Fuji TV]] Retrieved January 13, 2017.</ref>
*April 6 – [[WKYC|KYW-TV]] in Cleveland, Ohio (later WKYC) becomes the first station to use the ''[[Eyewitness News]]'' name.<ref>{{Cite web|title=L.A. station celebrates 50 years of 'Eyewitness News'|url=https://www.newscaststudio.com/2019/03/12/eyewitness-news-kabc-50/?og=1|access-date=2021-10-23|website=NewscastStudio|language=en-US}}</ref>
*May 24 – Television Ecuatoriana, the first [[television station]] in [[Ecuador]], starts a regular broadcasting service in [[Quito]] and [[Guayaquil]].{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}
*May 28 – Initiation of Lebanon's first television station, [[Télé Liban]].
*July 13–17 – ''[[The Hate That Hate Produced]]'', a documentary on [[Black nationalism]] in the United States, airs on [[WNET|WNTA-TV]].
*July 24 – The [[Kitchen Debate]] occurs in [[Moscow]], recorded on color [[videotape]].
*August 21 – The Catholic University of Chile begins broadcasting a partial service over Channel 2, the first TV station in Santiago, Chile.
*October 16 – OBXY-TV, predecessor of [[Panamericana Television]], [[Peru]], starts the first regular official broadcasting service in [[Lima]].<ref>[[Panamericana Televisión#History]] Retrieved January 13, 2017.</ref>
*October 22 – ''[[Take a Good Look (TV series)|Take a Good Look]]'', an innovative comedy series created by [[Ernie Kovacs]], premieres on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] in the United States.
*October 27 – [[Anglia Television]], the ITV franchise for [[Eastern England]], begins broadcasting.
*October 31 – [[Ulster Television]], the ITV franchise for [[Northern Ireland]], begins broadcasting.<ref 
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*October 31 – [[Western Nigeria Television]] (later known as [[Nigerian Television Authority]]) is launched in Nigeria, making it the first country to introduce television in Africa.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter=Television broadcasting in Africa: Pioneering milestones|doi=10.1109/HISTELCON.2010.5735315 |s2cid=21817115 |chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5735315|title=2010 Second Region 8 IEEE Conference on the History of Communications |year=2010 |last1=Nwulu |first1=Nnamdi I. |last2=Adekanbi |first2=Adeyemi |last3=Oranugo |first3=Tochukwu |last4=Adewale |first4=Yemi |pages=1–6 |isbn=978-1-4244-7450-9 }}.</ref>
*November 22 – ''[[Sandmännchen]]'', a children's bedtime [[stop motion]] series, premieres on [[East Germany|East German]] television channel [[Deutscher Fernsehfunk]]. The series will continue airing on Rundfunk Berlin–Brandenburg into the 2000s, making it the longest-running animated television series in history with the [[List of animated television series by episode count|greatest episode count for a single series]].
*November 29 – The [[Grammy Awards]] are first televised as part of [[NBC]]'s ''[[Sunday Showcase]]''.
*December 26 – [[BNT 1]], a member of [[Bulgarian National Television]], the first [[television station]] in [[Bulgaria]], starts a regular official broadcasting service in [[Sofia]].<ref>[[:bg:БНТ|1]] (Bulgarian language) Retrieved January 6, 2017</ref>