Editing 1960 in television (section)

==Events==
*February 10 – [[Jack Paar]] temporarily quits his television program in the United States because his monologue had been edited the night before, in favor of a three-minute news update. Parr walks out to the audience at the beginning of the show, announces that he is quitting, says "There's got to be a better way to make a living," and then walks off the stage. After network executives apologize personally, Parr resumes hosting the program a month later. His first show back starts with the words "As I was saying before I was interrupted...".<ref name=tvacres-joke>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvacres.com/censorship_jack.htm|title=Jack Paar's Water Closet Joke|work=Censorship & Scandals|publisher=TV ACRES|access-date=April 24, 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130205001237/http://www.tvacres.com/censorship_jack.htm|archive-date=February 5, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><!--  Commented out because image was deleted: [[Image:Jackpaar.jpg|thumb|140px|right|Feb. 11: [[Jack Paar]].]] -->
*February–September – In a first for US Audiences, [[CBS]] broadcasts the [[1960 Winter Olympics]] and [[1960 Summer Olympics|Summer Olympics]], on an exclusive basis, for $60,000. From [[Squaw Valley, Placer County, California|Squaw Valley]], American viewers are treated to 31 hours of coverage, which includes a mix of alpine skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, speed skating, and ski jumping. The Winter Olympic broadcast is hosted by [[Walter Cronkite]] while a young [[Jim McKay]], who will go on to host [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC's]] Olympic coverage, does the Rome Games.
*March 1 – Philippines's third television station [[DZTV-TV]] (now owned by the [[Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation]]) starts broadcasts at 6:30&nbsp;pm under the Inter-Island Broadcasting Corporation through the tri-media conglomerate of [[Radio Mindanao Network|RMN]]-IBC-''Philippine Herald'' owned by [[Andrés Soriano]], owner at this time of [[San Miguel Corporation]].
*March 2 – [[Lucille Ball]] files for divorce from [[Desi Arnaz]], ending their 20-year marriage and the ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' franchise on CBS.
*April 29 – [[RTSH]] started test transmissions at 6:00 pm, just only one day before an official launch.
*June 1 – Auckland TV2, as predecessor for [[TVNZ 1]] ([[Television New Zealand]]), a first television station in New Zealand, officially starts regular broadcasting service in [[Auckland]].<ref>[[TVNZ 1#History]] Retrieved January 13, 2017.</ref>    
*June 11 - CBS broadcasts the [[1960 Monaco Grand Prix|Monaco Grand Prix]] [[Formula One|Formula 1]] race (which took place on May 29), possibly the first broadcast of any F1 race in the United States.
*June 20 – [[Nan Winton]] becomes the first national female newsreader on BBC television in the United Kingdom.<ref name="Remembering Nan Winton">{{cite web|last1=Hill|first1=Jane|title=Remembering Nan Winton|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/962dea26-ac61-36e7-9418-5841e35363af|website=About the BBC|publisher=BBC|access-date=April 25, 2015|ref=Remembering Nan Winton}}</ref>
*June 29 – The [[BBC Television Centre]] is opened in London.
*July 21 – ERTU Al Oula, a member of the [[Egyptian Radio and Television Union]], a first television broadcasting service, is launched in [[Egypt]].{{citation needed|date=February 2021}} 
*July 31 – [[Telecuraçao]] is launched as the [[Netherlands Antilles]]' first television station, and also of the Antilliaanse Television Company (ATM). 
*August 20 – [[NRK1]], a first television station in Norway, an officially regular broadcasting service starts in [[Oslo]].<ref>[[NRK1]] Retrieved January 13, 2017.</ref>
*September 19 – [[Nikita Khrushchev]], leader of the [[Soviet Union]], arrives in New York City for the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly. The United States government asks television networks to minimize coverage of his visit.<ref>{{cite book|last=Khrushchev|first=Nikita|title=Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev|publisher=Pennsylvania State University|location=University Park|year=2004|isbn=9780271029351|pages=891–2}}</ref>
*September 24 – After thirteen seasons of entertaining American children, [[National Broadcasting Company|NBC]] children's show ''[[Howdy Doody]]'' ends with [[Clarabell the Clown]] saying the final two words of the show ("Goodbye Kids") after being assumed to be mute. 
*September 25 – First Japanese [[colour television]] broadcast.
*September 26 – The [[1960 United States presidential debates]], the first in history, take place as the two major candidates, Republican U.S. Vice President [[Richard Nixon]] and Democrat U.S. Senator [[John F. Kennedy]], face each other live in [[Chicago]] at the television studios of [[WBBM-TV]]. Carried live by all three networks, the debate begins at {{Nowrap|8:30 p.m.}} local time and lasts one hour.<ref>{{cite news|title=Great Debate Scheduled For Tonight|newspaper=Oakland Tribune|date=26 September 1960|page=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Nixon, Kennedy Meet Face to Face on TV|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=27 September 1960|page=1}}</ref> This first debate demonstrates the power of television in influencing voters: Kennedy appears tan and charismatic, while Nixon, due in part to poor makeup and a recent hospitalization, looks unkempt and tense, and this may impact on the outcome of the election. A special act of Congress has been passed in order to allow the American television and radio networks to broadcast the debate without having to provide equal time to other presidential candidates.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museum.tv/debateweb/html/history/1960/92660transcript.htm|title=The History of Televised Presidential Debates|publisher=Museum of Broadcast Communications}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first1=Kurt|last1=Lang|author1-link=Kurt Lang and Gladys Engel Lang|first2=Gladys Engel|last2=Lang|title=Television and Politics|publisher=U.S.A. Transaction Publishers|year=2002|pages=108–111}}</ref> In addition to being the first presidential debates to be televised, the debates also mark the first time "[[split screen (film)|split screen]]" images are used by a network.
*October 1 – [[Argentina|Argentine]] television station, [[El Trece]], a first officially regular broadcasting service, starts in [[Buenos Aires]].{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}
*October 5 – [[KEYC-TV]] signs on today, just in time to broadcast the first game of the [[1960 World Series|World Series]] tonight from [[NBC]].
*October 12 – [[Inejiro Asanuma]], chairman of the [[Japan Socialist Party]], is assassinated by [[Otoya Yamaguchi]] using a ''[[wakizashi]]'' ([[samurai]] sword) during a political debate in Tokyo being taped by Japanese television broadcaster [[NHK]].
*November 4 – The University of Chile inaugurates its TV station over Channel 9 in Santiago, Chile. Its first broadcast marks the first live broadcast of a TV show in Chile.
*December 9 – The [[Coronation Street: The First Episode|first episode]] of soap opera ''[[Coronation Street]]'', made by [[Granada Television]] in Manchester, England, is aired on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]].<ref name="Pocket">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|year=2006|isbn=0-14-102715-0}}</ref> Intended as a 13-week pilot and disfavoured by critics, it continues past its 10,000th episode in 2020 (its 60th anniversary year) as Britain's longest running soap.
*December 31 – [[Norma Zimmer]] officially becomes [[Lawrence Welk]]'s "Champagne Lady" on ''[[The Lawrence Welk Show]]''. She would remain with the show until it ended in 1982.

===Undated===
*[[Frank and Doris Hursley]] start their soap opera writing career, taking the jobs of joint head writers for the series ''[[Search for Tomorrow]]''.
*Nearly 90% of homes in the United States now have a television set, and over one hundred million television sets are in use worldwide.