1951 in television
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Events
- May 28 - The US Supreme Court upholds the FCC's approval of the CBS color television system.
- June 25 ? CBS presents its first commercial color telecast with Arthur Godfrey, Ed Sullivan, and Faye Emerson.
- June - RCA demonstrates its new electronic color system.
- August 11 - The first baseball games televised in color, a double-header between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Braves.
- September 4 - The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
- September 22 - The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
- October 3 - The first live coast-to-coast network telecast of a World Series game.
- October 12 - The Holme Moss transmitter is opened in Northern England, making BBC Television available to the region for the first time.
- December 24 - The first televised opera written for television, Amahl and the Night Visitors, airs on NBC.
- Television broadcasts begin in Argentina.
- Television broadcasts begin in Peru.
- Ernie Kovacs' Time for Ernie and Ernie in Kovacsland television shows premiere. Kovacs pushes the limits of television technology with his use of camera tricks and special effects.
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