Editing 1931 in television

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The year '''1931 in television''' involved some significant events.
Below is a list of [[television]]-related events during 1931.

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==Events==
*May 1 – The first wedding is broadcast by [[television]], on New York City's [[W2XCR]].
*June 3 – First television [[outside broadcast]] of a sporting event: [[John Logie Baird|Baird]] televises the [[Epsom Derby]] horse race in England.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of British television: Timeline, 1926–2017|url=https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/history-of-british-television-timeline/|publisher=National Science and Media Museum|location=Bradford|date=2011-04-07|accessdate=2023-09-28}}</ref>
*July 21 – [[CBS]]'s station [[W2XAB]] begins broadcasting 28 hours a week in New York City. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090722063031/http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/recording/television5.html]
* August – At the [[Berlin Radio Show]], [[Manfred von Ardenne]] gives the world's first public demonstration of a television system using a cathode-ray tube for both transmission and reception. Ardenne never develops a camera tube, using the CRT instead as a [[flying-spot scanner]] to scan slides and film.<ref>Albert Abramson, ''Zworykin: Pioneer of Television'', University of Illinois Press, 1995, p. 111.</ref>
*October 9 – Canada's first television station, VE9EC, begins broadcasting in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]]. VE9EC is owned jointly by radio station [[CKAC]] and the newspaper company ''[[La Presse (Canadian newspaper)|La Presse]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/backgrnd/brochures/b19903.htm |title=CRTC Origins |publisher=Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission |date=2008-09-05 |access-date=2009-11-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120110203201/http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/backgrnd/brochures/b19903.htm |archive-date=January 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
[[Image:Empire-State-Building.JPG|thumb|130px|right|October 30: [[NBC]] on [[Empire State Building]] which had opened during May.]]
*October 30 – [[NBC]] installs a television transmitter on top of the [[Empire State Building]].
*November 1 – Television images are transmitted from JOAK radio station in Tokyo, Japan by Professors Kenjiro Takayagani and Tomomasa Nakashima. The still images comprise 80 lines at 20 frames per second.
*December 22 – [[NBC]] begins broadcasting experimental test transmissions from the Empire State Building transmitter.
*December 23 – [[Don Lee (broadcaster)|Don Lee Broadcasting]] begins broadcasting low-definition [[electromechanical]] television from the station W6XAO (later KTSL) in Los Angeles, broadcasting one hour of film footage, six days per week.

==Debuts==
* ''[[Exhibition Boxing Bouts]]'' premieres on the experimental W2XAB (1931–1932)
* ''[[Hints for Swimmers]]'' premieres on the experimental W2XAB (1931)
* ''[[Piano Lessons (TV series)|Piano Lessons]]'' premieres on the experimental W2XAB (1931–1932).
* ''[[The Television Ghost]]'' premieres on the experimental W2XAB (1931–1933).
* ''[[Television Today]]'' premieres on the experimental W2XAB (1931).
* W2XAB debuts music segments with [[Connie Boswell]], [[Doris Sharp]], [[Elliot Jaffee]], [[Grace Yeager]], [[Harriet Lee (TV series)|Harriet Lee]], and [[Helen Haynes]], among others.
* W2XCD debuts a semi-regular segment with singer [[Alice Remsen]].

==Television shows==
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|''[[Exhibition Boxing Bouts]]''
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|''[[Elliot Jaffee]]''
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|''[[Grace Yeager]]''
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|''[[Helen Haynes]]''
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|''[[Hints for Swimmers]]''
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|''[[Piano Lessons (TV series)|Piano Lessons]]''
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|''[[The Television Ghost]]''
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|''[[Television Today]]''
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==Births==
*January 4 – [[Rosemary Prinz]], U.S. actress (''[[As the World Turns]]'')
*January 10 – [[Marlene Sanders]], television news correspondent (died 2015)
*January 11 – [[Peter Baldwin (director)|Peter Baldwin]], actor (died 2017)
*January 13
**[[Charles Nelson Reilly]], actor, game show panelist (died 2007)
**[[Rip Taylor]], comedian (died 2019)
*January 15 – [[Thomas Hoving]], American museum executive (died 2009)
*January 17 – [[James Earl Jones]], actor
*January 19 – [[Robert MacNeil]], news reporter
*February 6 – [[Rip Torn]], actor (died 2019)
*February 8 – [[James Dean]], actor, ''[[East of Eden (film)|East of Eden]]'', ''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]'', ''[[Giant (1956 film)|Giant]]'' (died 1955)
*February 13 – [[Geoff Edwards]], game show host (died 2014)
*February 24 – [[Dominic Chianese]], actor
*February 28 – [[Gavin MacLeod]], actor, ''[[The Love Boat]]'' (died 2021)
*March 11 – [[Rupert Murdoch]], media mogul
*March 20 – [[Hal Linden]], actor, ''[[Barney Miller]]''
*March 22 – [[William Shatner]], actor, ''[[Star Trek]]''
*March 26 – [[Leonard Nimoy]], actor, ''[[Star Trek]]'' (died 2015)
*March 27 – [[David Janssen]], actor, ''[[The Fugitive (1963 TV series)|The Fugitive]]'' (died 1980)
*April 6 – [[Ivan Dixon]], actor, ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'' (died 2008)
*April 12 – [[Betty Clooney]], singer (died 1976)
*April 14 – [[Kenneth Cope]], English actor, ''[[Coronation Street]]'', ''[[Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)]]'' (died 2024)
*April 26 – [[Bernie Brillstein]], agent and producer (died 2008)
*May 15 – [[Ken Venturi]], golfer (died 2013)
*May 16 – [[Jack Dodson]], actor, ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'' (died 1994)
*May 18 
**[[Robert Morse]], actor (died 2022)
**[[George Shapiro]], producer (died 2022)
**[[Don Martin (cartoonist)|Don Martin]], cartoonist (died 2000)
*May 23 – [[Barbara Barrie]], actress, ''[[Barney Miller]]''
*June 8 – [[Dana Wynter]], actress (died 2011)
*June 14 – [[Marla Gibbs]], actress, ''[[The Jeffersons]]'', ''[[227 (TV series)|227]]''
*June 20 – [[Olympia Dukakis]], actress, ''[[Tales of the City (1993 miniseries)|Tales of the City]]'' (died 2021)
*June 26 – [[Marvin Minoff]], American film and television producer (died 2009)
*July 1 – [[Leslie Caron]], actress
*July 6 – [[Della Reese]], actress, singer, ''[[Touched by an Angel]]'' (died 2017)
*July 8 – [[Roone Arledge]], producer (died 2002)
*July 10 – [[Nick Adams (actor, born 1931)|Nick Adams]], actor (died 1968)
*July 26 – [[Robert Colbert]], actor, ''[[The Time Tunnel]]''
*July 27 – [[Jerry Van Dyke]], actor, ''[[Coach (TV series)|Coach]]'' (died 2018)
*July 28 – [[Darryl Hickman]], actor (died 2024)
*August 15 – [[Janice Rule]], actress (died 2003)
*August 23 – [[Barbara Eden]], actress, ''[[I Dream of Jeannie]]''
*August 25 – [[Regis Philbin]], talk show host (died 2020)
*September 1 – [[Beano Cook]], American television personality (died 2012)
*September 4 – [[Mitzi Gaynor]], singer, actress
*September 9 – [[Barbara Lyon]], singer, actress (died 1995)
*September 10 – [[Philip Baker Hall]], actor (died 2022)
*September 11 – [[Bill Simpson (actor)|Bill Simpson]], actor (died 1986)
*September 12 
**[[Bill McKinney]], actor (died 2011)
**[[Ian Holm]], actor (died 2020)
*September 13 – [[Barbara Bain]], actress, ''[[Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)|Mission: Impossible]]''
*September 17 – [[Anne Bancroft]], actress (died 2005)
*September 19 – [[Ray Danton]], actor (died 1992)
*September 21 – [[Larry Hagman]], actor, ''[[I Dream of Jeannie]]'', ''[[Dallas (TV series)|Dallas]]'' (died 2012)
*September 24 – [[Howard West]], TV producer (died 2015)
*September 30 – [[Angie Dickinson]], actress, ''[[Police Woman (TV series)|Police Woman]]''
*October 23
**[[Jim Bunning]], baseball player and politician (died 2017)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hall of Famer Bunning passes away |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/hall-of-fame-pitcher-jim-bunning-dies-at-85-c232780372 |access-date=2024-07-22 |website=MLB.com |language=en}}</ref>
**[[Diana Dors]], actress (died 1984)
*October 31 – [[Dan Rather]], news reporter
*November 5 – [[Reese Schonfeld]], news reporter (died 2020)
*November 8 – [[Morley Safer]], news reporter (died 2016)
*November 12 – [[Dick Clair]], writer (died 1988)
*November 30 – [[Jack Ging]], actor (died 2022)
*December 3 – [[Jaye P. Morgan]], game show panelist
*December 9 – [[Paddi Edwards]], actress (died 1999)
*December 11 – [[Rita Moreno]], actress
*December 23 – [[Ronnie Schell]], comedian
*December 28 – [[Martin Milner]], actor, ''[[Adam-12]]'' (died 2015)

==References==
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