1954 in television

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Events

• January 1 - NBC broadcasts the Rose Parade in NTSC color on 21 stations.
• January 3 - RAI launched in Italy.
• January 11 - The first weather forecast with an in-vision presenter is televised in the UK.
• March 23 - First television station in Puerto Rico airs his tests and starts transmission.
• April - The American Broadcasting Company broadcasts the Army-McCarthy hearings live and in their entirety.
• June 5 - The last new episode of the comic variety program, Your Show of Shows, airs.
• July 5 - First actual news bulletin, News and Newsreel, aired on BBC Television, replacing Television Newsreel.
• 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.
• December 12 - BBC Television screens its famous, and controversial, adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
• First television broadcast begins in Colombia.
• Television Act 1954 authorises setting up the infrastructure for British commercial television.