- 1931 in television
The year 1931 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of
television -related events in1931 .__TOC__
Events
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May 1 - The first wedding is broadcast on television, onNew York City 'sW2XCR .
*July 21 -CBS 's stationW2XAB began broadcasting 28 hours a week in New York City. [http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/television5.html]*
October 30 -NBC installs a television transmitter on top of theEmpire State Building .
*November 1 - Television images are transmitted from JOAK radio station inTokyo ,Japan by ProfessorsKenjiro Takayagani andTomomasa Nakashima . The images comprise 80 lines at 20 frames per second.
*December 22 -NBC begins broadcasting experimental test transmissions from the Empire State Building transmitter.
*December 23 -Don Lee Broadcasting signs on W6XAO (later KTSL) fromLos Angeles with low-definitionelectromechanical television, broadcasting one hour of film footage, six days per week.
*Canada 's first television station, VE9EC, begins broadcasting inMontreal, Quebec . VE9EC was owned jointly by radio stationCKAC and the newspaper,La Presse .Debuts
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The Television Ghost " premieres on the experimental W2XAB (1931-1933 ).Television shows
Births
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January 13 -Charles Nelson Reilly , actor, game show panelist (d.2007 )
*January 17 -James Earl Jones , actor
*January 19 -Robert MacNeil , news reporter
*February 13 -Geoff Edwards , game show host
*March 11 -Rupert Murdoch , media mogul
*March 22 -William Shatner , actor
*March 26 -Leonard Nimoy , actor
*March 27 -David Janssen , actor (d.1980 )
*April 6 -Ivan Dixon , actor
*April 26 -Bernie Brillstein , agent, producer
*May 23 -Barbara Barrie , actress
*June 8 -Dana Wynter , actress
*June 14 -Marla Gibbs , actress
*June 20 -Martin Landau , actor
*July 6 -Della Reese , actress, singer
*July 8 -Roone Arledge , producer (d.2002 )
*July 27 -Jerry Van Dyke , actor
*July 28 -Darryl Hickman , actor
*August 25 -Regis Philbin , talk show host
*September 4 -Mitzi Gaynor , singer, actress
*September 10 -Philip Baker Hall , actor
*September 13 -Barbara Bain , actress
*September 21 -Larry Hagman , actor
*September 30 -Angie Dickinson , actress
*October 31 -Dan Rather , news reporter
*November 8 -Morley Safer , news reporter
*November 12 -Dick Clair , writer (d.1988 )
*November 28 -Hope Lange , actress (d.2003 )
*December 3 -Jaye P. Morgan , game show panelist
*December 11 -Rita Moreno , actress
*December 23 -Ronnie Schell , comedian
*December 28 -Martin Milner , actor
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