1946 in television

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Events

• February 4 ? RCA demonstrates all-electronic color television system.
• February 18 - The first Washington, DC - New York City telecast through AT&T coaxial cable is termed success by engineers and viewers.
• April 22 - CBS color television program is successfully transmitted over a 450-mile coaxial cable link from New York to Washington.
• June 7 - The BBC Television Service begins broadcasting again, and reshows the same Mickey Mouse cartoon, Mickey's Gala Premiere, that had been the last programme transmitted seven years earlier at the start of the World War II. It is preceded by the announcement: "As we were saying before we were so rudely interrupted..."
• June 19 - The first televised heavyweight boxing title fight between Joe Louis and Billy Conn is broadcast from Yankee Stadium. The fight was seen by 141,000 people, the largest television audience to see a fight to that date.
• July 7 - The BBC's children's programme For The Children returns, one of the few pre-war programmes to resume after the reintroduction of the service.
• August 4 - Children's puppet "Muffin the Mule" debuts in an episode of For The Children. He is so popular he is given his own show later in the year.
• October 2 - The first television network soap opera, Faraway Hill, airs on the DuMont Network.
• October 22 - Telecrime, the first television crime series from the 1930s, returns for the final run on the BBC, retitled Telecrimes.
• December 24 - The first church service is telecast, Grace Episcopal Church in New York, on WABD.
• Tokyo Tushin Kogyo founded, which would later become Sony.
• Zoomar introduces the first professional zoom lens.
• In the United States, only the DuMont Network and NBC were broadcasting in the evening in 1946. DuMont ran a Western movie on Sunday night for an hour, other programming for an hour on Tuesday, and half hours on Wednesday and Thursday nights. NBC ran an hour of programming on Sunday, two hours on Thursday, and the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports on Monday and Friday nights, with an additional hour on Fridays.