1962 in television

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Events

• March 16 - Walter Cronkite succeeds Douglas Edwards as anchorman of the CBS Evening News.
• March 24 - Boxer Benny Kid Paret falls unconscious at the hands of fellow boxer Emile Griffith during a televised boxing match at Madison Square Garden. Paret would die nine days later.
• Les Crane and Regis Philbin host The Tonight Show for a short time, until Johnny Carson took over later in the year.
• Broadcast of Sábados Alegres begins, program later becomes Sábados Gigantes.
• Cigarette adverts are banned from children's programmes in the UK. Actors in these adverts now have to be over 21, and connection to social success is no longer allowed. The tobacco companies also start a policy of not advertising before 9pm.