1958 in television

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Events

• July 1 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada.
• November 28 - During the live broadcast of the Armchair Theatre play Underground on the ITV network in the UK, actor Gareth Jones dies between two of his scenes while in make-up. Director William Kotcheff is forced to improvise with his cast to carry on the play to its conclusion, with producer Sydney Newman ordering him to "shoot it like a football match".
• Senator Estes Kefauver holds congressional hearings on the rising rates of juvenile crime and publishes an article in Reader's Digest called "Let's Get Rid of Tele-Violence."
• Ampex demonstrates their design for a color Video Tape Recorder.
• In the United Kingdom, the top-rated show of the year was the ITV game show Dotto, based on children's Join the Dots puzzles.
• Television broadcasting begins in Portugal.
• Fall ? Scandals involving rigged network quiz shows create havoc within the US television industry.