1954 in television

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1 Events

Events

NTSC video standard introduced
Television Act of 1954 authorises setting up the infrastructure for British commercial television.
January 1 - NBC broadcasts the Rose Parade[?] in color on 21 stations.
January 11 - The first weather forcast is televised in the U.K.
April - The American Broadcasting Company broadcasts the Army-McCarthy hearings live and in their entirety.
September 11 - The Miss America Beauty Contest airs for the first time on national television in the United States. 27 million viewers watched as Lee Ann Meriwether[?] won the crown. Meriwether would later become a television actress, co-starring in Barnaby Jones[?] in the 1970s.
November 3 - Disney's Alice in Wonderland[?] airs on ABC