1957 in television
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Events
- January 6 - Elvis Presley makes final appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
- Jack Paar becomes the permanent host for NBC's The Tonight Show.
- March 31 - Cinderella, starring 21-year-old Julie Andrews, and with songs by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, airs in color on CBS.
- April 1 - British current affairs programme Panorama broadcasts the famous Spaghetti trees hoax report.
- September 7 - NBC introduces an animated version of its famous "living color" peacock logo.
- In the UK, the "toddler's truce" (an arrangement whereby there were no TV broadcasts between 6 PM and 7 PM, to allow parents to put their children to bed) was abolished.
- Front Page Challenge, television's longest continuously running panel show starts airing on the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) for the next 38 years.
- Cyprus began a limited television service, serving only three hours a day, twice-weekly. By 1960, a full service was launched.
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