Editing 1949 in television (section)

== Debuts ==
=== Programs ===
* January 16: ''[[ABC Television Players]]'', a dramatic anthology, debuts on ABC (1949).
* January 17: ''[[The Goldbergs (broadcast series)|The Goldbergs]]'', a situation comedy, debuts on CBS (1949–55).
* March 1: ''[[Ripley's Believe It or Not (1949 TV series)|Ripley's Believe It or Not]]'' debuts on NBC (1949-1950)
* May 5: Series ''[[Stop the Music (American game show)|Stop the Music]]'' debuts on [[American Broadcasting Company]] for a five-year run over seven years.
* June 24: "[[Hopalong Cassidy]]" becomes the first American television Western series (originally based on film shorts, then becoming an original series in 1952)
* June 27: ''[[Captain Video and His Video Rangers]]'', apparently the first science fiction series televised, debuts.
* July 15: ''[[This Is Show Business]]'', panel discussion program, premieres on CBS (1949–54; 1956).
* September 28: ''[[Photocrime]]'', detective program, premieres on ABC (1949).<ref name="es">{{cite book|last1=Irvin|first1=Richard|title=The Early Shows: A Reference Guide to Network and Syndicated PrimeTime Television Series from 1944 to 1949|date=2018|publisher=BearManor Media|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C2tRDwAAQBAJ&q=Photocrime&pg=PT95|access-date=21 March 2018|language=en}}</ref>
* September 29: ''[[Come Dancing]]'', a [[ballroom dancing]] competition, is first broadcast by the BBC (1949–95).
* ''[[Martin Kane, Private Eye]]'' premieres on NBC, becoming the first detective series televised (1949–54).
* ''[[The Voice of Firestone]]'' premieres (1949–63).
* ''[[Bozo the Clown]]'' premieres (1949–present).
* ''[[The Lone Ranger (TV series)|The Lone Ranger]]'' premieres on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] (1949–57).<ref name="etvs">{{cite book|last1=Terrace|first1=Vincent|title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010|date=2011|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers|location=Jefferson, N.C.|isbn=978-0-7864-6477-7|page=619|edition=2nd}}</ref>

=== Stations ===
* January 1: [[KPRC-TV]] (Originally known as KLEE-TV) Signs on the air. They are the Second TV station in Texas, and the First in [[Houston]]. That same day, [[KTTV]] Signs on in Los Angeles.
* March 21: [[WTVJ]] signs on the air becoming the first television station in the state of Florida.
* May 29: [[WVTM-TV]] (Originally WAFM, and later WABT and WAPI) Signs on the air as the first TV station in Alabama
* May 30: [[WRTV]] (originally WFBM-TV) Signs on the air as the first TV station in Indiana
* June 6: [[KFOR-TV]] (originally WKY-TV) Signs on the air as the first TV station in Oklahoma
* July 1 [[WBRC]] Begins operations from Birmingham AL, just 1 month after WVTM started operations.
* August 29: [[WOWT]] (originally WOW-TV) Signs on the air for the first time, becoming the first television station in Nebraska, and one of the first in the Midwest.