1933 in television
The year 1933 in television involved some significant events.
Below is a list of television-related events during 1933.
Events
- January 23 – W9XAL in Kansas City begins broadcasting.
- January 24 – John Cameron Swayze begins his daily Journal-Post News Flashes on W9XAL, which is simulcast by KMBC radio.
- April 21 – The first television revue, named Looking In, is shown on the BBC. The first four minutes of this programme survive on a Silvatone record, an early method of home video recording.
- August 4? – W9XAT in Minneapolis, Minnesota makes its first transmission.
- RCA performs private field tests in Camden, New Jersey of an electronic television system.
Ending this year
Television shows
Births
- January 8 – Charles Osgood, journalist
- January 17 – Shari Lewis, puppeteer (died 1998),
- February 2 – Tony Jay, actor (died 2006)
- March 12 – Barbara Feldon, actress.
- March 19
- April 5 – Frank Gorshin, actor (died 2005)
- April 7 – Wayne Rogers, actor, financial commentator (died 2015)
- April 26 – Carol Burnett, actor, comedian
- May 7 – Roger Perry, actor
- May 20 – Constance Towers, actress
- May 21 – Richard Libertini, actor (died 2016)
- June 8 – Joan Rivers, comedian (died 2014)
- June 20 – Danny Aiello, actor
- June 21 – Bernie Kopell, actor
- June 27 – Gary Crosby (died 1995)
- July 23 – Bert Convy, game show host (died 1991)
- July 30 – Edd Byrnes, actor
- August 1 – Dom DeLuise, actor and comedian (died 2009)
- August 11 – Jerry Falwell, televangelist (died 2007)
- August 16 – Julie Newmar, actress
- August 25 – Tom Skerritt, actor
- September 13 – Eileen Fulton, actress
- September 18
- September 27
- November 3 – Ken Berry, actor
- November 5 – Herb Edelman, actor (died 1996)
- November 19 – Larry King, talk show host
- November 28 – Hope Lange, actress (died 2003)
- December 8 – Flip Wilson, comedian (died 1998)
- December 15 – Tim Conway, comedian
- December 26 – Caroll Spinney, puppeteer