Editing 1962 in television (section)

==Events==
*January 1 
** The [[1962 Rose Bowl]] game on NBC is the first coast-to-coast [[color television]] broadcast of a [[college football]] game in the United States.
** [[NBC]] introduces the [[NBC Logos|Laramie Peacock]] before a midnight showing of [[Laramie (TV series)|Laramie]].
*[[Benny Paret vs. Emile Griffith III|March 24]] – Boxer [[Benny Kid Paret]] falls unconscious at the hands of fellow boxer [[Emile Griffith]] during a boxing match telecast by [[ESPN on ABC|ABC]] from [[Madison Square Garden (1925)|Madison Square Garden]], and officiated by [[Ruby Goldstein]]. Paret dies ten days later.
*April 16 – [[Walter Cronkite]] succeeds [[Douglas Edwards]] as anchorman of the ''[[CBS Evening News]]''; he will remain so for the next 19 years.
*May 27 - [[General Electric Theater]] airs its last episode on [[CBS]].
*June 26 - [[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]] airs its last half-hour episode on NBC, before expanding to one hour on September 20 as [[Alfred Hitchcock Presents|The Alfred Hitchcock Hour]] on CBS.
*July 6 - [[Gay Byrne]] presents the first edition of ''[[The Late Late Show (Ireland)|The Late Late Show]]'' on [[RTÉ]] in Ireland. Byrne would present the show for 37 years, the longest period through which any individual has hosted a televised [[talk show]] anywhere in the world, and the show itself becomes the world's second longest-running talk show.
*July 23 – First publicly available live transatlantic television broadcast via [[Telstar 1]].
*August 24 - [[Indonesia]] begins the first television broadcast with the newly inaugurated [[TVRI]], broadcast the opening ceremony of [[1962 Asian Games]]. TVRI is the first national television network in Indonesia before 1989. The establishment of TVRI marked as National Television Day. 
*September 1 – [[Channel Television]], the [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] franchise for the [[Channel Islands]], goes on air.
*September 9 - WNYS-TV (now [[WSYR-TV]]) signs-on the air, giving [[Syracuse, New York]] its first full-time [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] affiliate.
*September 14 – [[Wales West and North Television]] (Teledu Cymru) goes on air to the North and West [[Wales]] region, extending [[ITV (TV channel)|ITV]] to the whole of the [[United Kingdom|UK]].
*September 16 - WOKR-TV (now [[WHAM-TV]]) signs-on the air as an [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]-affiliate in [[Rochester, New York]] 
*September 26 – [[Television Malta|Malta Television (MTV)]] went on the air as the first TV station in Malta.
* Broadcast of ''Sábados Alegres'' begins, program later becomes ''[[Sábados Gigantes]]''
* [[Cigarette]] adverts are banned from children's programmes in the UK. Actors in these adverts now have to be over 21, and connection to social success is no longer allowed. The tobacco companies also start a policy of not advertising before 9pm.
* The U.S. ''All-Channel Receiver Act'' requires UHF tuners to be on all consumer sets (channels 14 through 83), as well as VHF.[http://www.cbc.ca/hdtv/history.html][http://www.ntia.doc.gov/opadhome/spectrumhistory.htm]
*[[Zenith]] markets its first color TV, a 21" round screen set.