April 20 - BBC2 starts broadcasting in the UK; the existing BBC channel is renamed BBC1. A power failure prevents the planned opening night's schedule from happening, meaning the first programme shown is Play School the following morning.
April 30 - Television sets manufactured as of this date are required to receive UHF channels.
May 5 - The documentary film Seven Up! is broadcast on ITV in the UK, showing the lives of fourteen school children. Subsequent films in the series have seen them interviewed every seven years since.
August 1 - The official launch of Melbourne's third commercial television station ATV-0, signalling the beginning of what is now Network Ten.
October 10 - The 1964 Summer Olympics opening ceremony at Tokyo, Japan, with first time of live Olympic telecast program by geostationary communication satellite.