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
The Television Ghost (1931–1933)
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
Phyllis Newman, actress, game show panelist
