Editing 1964 in television (section)

==Events==
* Most of [[NBC]]'s programs are now broadcast in color.
* January 1 – The first ''[[Top of the Pops]]'' airs on [[BBC Television]] in the [[United Kingdom|UK]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Briggs |first1=Asa |title=The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Competition |date=1995 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780192159649 |page=508 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0pRGjVGtUvwC&pg=PA508|language=en}}</ref>
* January 3 – Footage of [[The Beatles]] performing a concert in [[Bournemouth, England]] is shown on ''[[The Jack Paar Show]]'' in the United States.
* January 4 
** [[TV Tokyo]] launched in [[Japan]].
** ''[[The Hollywood Palace]]'' variety series debuts on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] in the United States, with first guest host [[Bing Crosby]].
* February 9-23 – The Beatles appear on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'' in the United States, breaking television ratings records.
* April 20 – [[BBC Two|BBC2]] starts broadcasting in the UK; the existing BBC channel is renamed [[BBC One|BBC1]].
* April 30 – Television sets manufactured as of this date are required to receive [[Ultra high frequency|UHF]] channels.
* May 5 – The documentary film ''[[Seven Up!]]'' is broadcast on [[ITV1|ITV]] in the UK, showing the lives of fourteen school children. Subsequent films in the series have seen them interviewed every seven years since.
* June 4 - [[Sylvania Electric Products|Sylvania]] in the United States unveils a revolutionary color TV picture tube in which [[europium]]-bearing phosphor allows a much brighter display.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/05/archives/sylvania-develops-new-colortv-tube.html|title = Sylvania Develops New Color-Tv Tube|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 5 June 1964}}</ref>
* June 6 – [[The Rolling Stones]] make their American TV debut on ''[[The Hollywood Palace]]'', hosted by [[Dean Martin]].
* July – The British [[Associated Television]]'s series ''[[Emergency – Ward 10]]'' shows one of the [[First interracial kiss on television|first kisses on television between black and white actors]], [[Joan Hooley]] playing surgeon Louise Mahler and John White playing Dr. Giles Farmer.
* August 1 – The official launch of [[Melbourne, Australia|Melbourne]]'s third commercial television station [[ATV-10|ATV-0]], signaling the beginning of what is now [[Network Ten]].
* September 7 – "[[Daisy (advertisement)|Daisy]]" advertisement airs on network television in the United States as part of [[Lyndon B. Johnson 1964 presidential campaign]].
* September 17 – The new sitcom ''[[Bewitched]]'' pilot airs on ABC in the United States starring [[Elizabeth Montgomery]], [[Dick York]] and [[Agnes Moorehead]].
* October 10 – NBC in the United States airs the [[1964 Summer Olympics]] opening ceremony at [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]], with first time of live Olympic telecast program by geostationary communication satellite [[Syncom 3]]. This telecast marks NBC's first Olympic broadcasting stint.
* October 18 – [[Jackie Mason]] appears on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'' on CBS in the United States and is subsequently banned after he seemingly gives Ed "the finger" on the air.
* October 25 – [[The Rolling Stones]] make their first appearance on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]''; the next day, Sullivan insists that he'll never have them back.
* November 26 – [[Pakistan Television Corporation]] airs the first television broadcasts in [[Pakistan]].
* December 6 – [[NBC]] in the United States debuts the Christmas special ''[[Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special)|Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer]]''. It will become a holiday tradition, moving to [[CBS]] in [[1972 in television|1972]].