Editing 1930 in television

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The year '''1930 in television''' involved some significant events.
Below is a list of [[television]]-related events during 1930.
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==Global television events==
* May 22 – An audience at [[Proctor's Theatre (Schenectady, New York)|Proctor's Theatre]] in [[Schenectady, New York|Schenectady]], New York becomes the first to see a [[closed-circuit television]] signal projected onto a big screen.
* July 14 – For the first time in the United Kingdom, a television drama is broadcast.  The drama is a production of [[Luigi Pirandello]]'s ''[[The Man With the Flower in His Mouth]]''; it is broadcast by the [[BBC]] from [[John Logie Baird|Baird]]'s studios at 133 Long Acre, London.<ref name="earlytv">{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/technology/technology2.html|title=TV Technology 2. Television on the Air|first=Richard G|last=Elen|publisher=[[Screenonline]]|access-date=2007-02-07}}</ref>
* November 5 – Baird television transmissions at Hairdressing Fair of Fashion include the world's first television commercial for the Eugène Method of [[permanent wave|permanent hair waving]].
* December 7 – [[W1XAV]] in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts the first television commercial in the United States, of I.J Fox Furriers during The Fox Trappers.

==Births==
* January 1 - [[Ty Hardin]], U.S. actor (''Bronco'') (died 2017)
* January 3 - [[Robert Loggia]], U.S. actor (died 2015)
* January 4 - [[Sorrell Booke]], U.S. actor (''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]'') (died 1994)
* January 6 - [[Vic Tayback]], U.S. actor (''[[Alice (American TV series)|Alice]]'') (died 1990)
* January 15 - [[Edwin Sherin]], U.S. director (died 2017)
* January 19 - [[Tippi Hedren]], U.S. actress
* January 30 - [[Don Brockett]], U.S. actor (died 1995)
* February 8 - [[Alejandro Rey]], Argentinian-born actor (''[[The Flying Nun]]'') (died 1987)
* February 10 - [[Robert Wagner]], U.S. actor (''[[It Takes a Thief (1968 TV series)|It Takes a Thief]]'', ''[[Switch (American TV series)|Switch]]'', ''[[Hart to Hart]]'')
* February 27 - [[Joanne Woodward]], U.S. actress
* March 22
** [[Pat Robertson]], televangelist (died 2023)
** [[Stephen Sondheim]], U.S. composer (died 2021)
* March 30 - [[John Astin]], U.S. actor (''[[The Addams Family (1964 TV series)|The Addams Family]]'')
* April 5 - [[Mary Costa]], actress
* April 7 - [[Andrew Sachs]], German-born British actor (''[[Fawlty Towers]]'') (died 2016)
* April 18 - [[Clive Revill]], actor
* April 19 - [[Dick Sargent]], U.S. actor (''[[Bewitched]]'') (died 1994)
* April 23 - [[Alan Oppenheimer]], U.S. actor
* April 25 - [[Lynn Hamilton (actress)|Lynn Hamilton]],  U.S. actress (''[[Sanford and Son]]'')
* April 28 - [[Carolyn Jones]], U.S. actress (''[[The Addams Family (1964 TV series)|The Addams Family]]'') (died 1983)
* May 10 - [[Pat Summerall]], American football player and sportscaster (died 2013)
* May 17 - [[Frank Price]], U.S. TV and film executive
* May 20 - [[Betty DeGeneres]], American LGBT rights activist
* May 31 - [[Clint Eastwood]], U.S. director and actor (''[[Rawhide (TV series)|Rawhide]]'')
* June 12 - [[Jim Nabors]], U.S. actor, singer (''[[The Andy Griffith Show]], [[Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.]]'') (died 2017)
* June 19 - [[Gena Rowlands]], U.S. actress (died 2024)
* June 25 - [[George Murdock (actor)|George Murdock]], actor (died 2012)
* June 27 - [[Ross Perot]], American businessman and politician (died 2019)
* June 29 - [[Robert Evans]], Actor (died 2019)
* July 14 - [[Polly Bergen]], U.S. actress (died 2014)
* July 17 - [[Ray Galton]], British writer (died 2018)
* July 28 - [[Horacio Gómez Bolaños]], Mexican actor (died 1999)
* July 30 - [[Tony Lip]], actor (died 2013)
* August 11 - [[Paul Soles]], actor (died 2021)
* August 16 
**[[Frank Gifford]], American football player and sportscaster (died 2015)
**[[Robert Culp]], U.S. actor (''[[I Spy (1965 TV series)|I Spy]]'') (died 2010)
* August 25
** [[Graham Jarvis]], U.S. actor (died 2003)
** [[Sean Connery]], Actor (died 2020)
* August 28 - 
** [[Windsor Davies]], British comedy actor (''[[It Ain't Half Hot Mum]]'') (died 2019)
** [[Ben Gazzara]], U.S. actor (''[[Run for Your Life (TV series)|Run for Your Life]]'') (died 2012)
* September 7 - [[Sonny Rollins]], Saxophonist
* September 11 - [[Cathryn Damon]], U.S. actress (died 1987)
* September 16 - [[Anne Francis]], U.S. actress (''[[Honey West (TV series)|Honey West]]'') (died 2011)
* September 23 - [[Ray Charles]], U.S. singer, songwriter, pianist and composer (died 2004)
* September 27 - [[Bill Carruthers]], U.S. television executive (died 2003)
* October 1 - [[Richard Harris]], actor (died 2002)
* October 6 - [[Lou Cutell]], U.S. actor (died 2021)
* October 19 - [[Fred Facey]], U.S. radio and television announcer (died 2003)
* November 3 
** [[Larry Gelman]], U.S. actor (''[[The Bob Newhart Show]]'')
** [[Lois Smith]], U.S. actress
* November 5 - [[Richard Davalos]], U.S. actor (died 2016)
* November 15 - [[Whitman Mayo]], U.S. actor (''[[Sanford and Son]]'') (died 2001)
* November 24 - [[Nina Russell]], U.S. writer, actress (died 2019)<ref>Miller, Quinlan (2019). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=cnSPDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT127 Camp TV: Trans Gender Queer Sitcom History]''. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. p.&nbsp;127. {{ISBN|9781478003038}}. "In ''Winchell-Mahoney Time'', NBC, written by Nina Russel, Winchell hosted and played characters like Bonehead Smiff, Mr. Goody-Goody"</ref><ref>Lerner, Patricia Klein (September 9, 1988). [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times/170502390/ "Valley News: Ventriloquist's Ex-Wife Fails to Get Share of $17.8-Million Award "]. ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]''. pt.&nbsp;II, p.&nbsp;11. Retrieved April 22, 2025. "Tessie Nina Moore, who was married to the ventriloquist for 11 years, contended that she was entitled to $8.9 million of the judgment Metromedia was ordered to pay Winchell for destroying tapes of his popular "Winchel-Mahoney Time" children's television show. [...] When the couple divorced, Moore, who wrote and performed in the show, agreed to $1,500 as her share of the corporation the couple used for business matters, said her attorney, Robert A. Kahn."</ref><ref>"United States, Obituary Records, 2014-2023", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6126-RVL5 : Fri Nov 08 10:51:49 UTC 2024), Entry for Nina Tessie Moore and Jerry, 16 December 2019.</ref>
* November 2 - [[Peter Hall (director)|Peter Hall]], English director (died 2017)
* December 4 - [[Ronnie Corbett]], British comedian (died 2016)
* December 9 - [[Buck Henry]], U.S. writer, actor, director (died 2020)
* December 12 - [[Bill Beutel]], American television journalist (died 2006)
* December 17 - [[Armin Mueller-Stahl]], actor
* December 21 - [[Phil Roman]], U.S. animator
* December 24 - [[Julian Barry]], U.S. screenwriter (died 2023)
* December 31 - [[Renate Hoy]], U.S. actress (died 2024)

==Deaths==
*[[February 19]] - [[Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton]], Scottish electrical engineer who provided the theoretical basis for the electronic television, 66<ref>Oakes, Elizabeth (2009), ''A to Z of STS Scientists''. Infobase publishing, pp. 51.</ref>

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