1963 in television

1963 in television
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The year 1963 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1963.

Further information: 1963-64 American network television schedule

1 Events
2 Debuts
3 Television shows
4 Ending this year
5 Births
6 Deaths

Events

January 13 - BBC Television broadcasts the play The Madhouse on Castle Street in the Sunday-Night Theatre strand. The play co-stars a young American folk music singer named Bob Dylan.
April 1 - German terrestrial channel ZDF (pronounced tseh-deh-ehf) began broadcasting.
May 15 - First television pictures transmitted from a US manned space capsule ("Faith 7"). Due to the poor picture quality, only NBC carries the transmission, and on tape-delay, not live.
July 22 - Bob Crane quits his DJ job at radio station KNX to become a regular on The Donna Reed Show.
September 2 - CBS Evening News becomes network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
September 9 - NBC also expands its evening network news program to 30 minutes.
September 30 - BBC Television begins using a globe as their symbol. They would continue to use it in varying forms until 2002.
October 1 - ABC News at last drops its dependence on outside sources of news film and begins to rely on its own camera crews.
November 22 - All three major U.S. networks start pre-emptions for a week following the news of John F. Kennedy's assassination. The pre-emptions unofficially begin a few minutes after Kennedy was shot; on the top-rated American soap opera As the World Turns, Nancy Hughes (Helen Wagner) was in the middle of a discussion with Grandpa (Santos Ortega) about Bob's (Don Hastings) decision to invite Lisa (Eileen Fulton) to Thanksgiving dinner. Walter Cronkite interrupted Wagner mid-speech to deliver the bulletin. As the World Turns continued for one more scene (at that time, the show was transmitted live) before Cronkite cut in permanently.
November 23 - That Was The Week That Was broadcasts its famous, non-satirical Kennedy tribute episode on the BBC.
November 24 - Jack Ruby murders John F. Kennedy's suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald live on television.
For the first time, most Americans say that they get more of their news from television than newspapers.
The television remote control is authorized by the FCC.
The actor to play the Doctor Who character The Doctor was William Hartnell. He played the role from 1963 until 1966