January 19 - CBS launches Operation 100, an all-out campaign to discredit NBC and all it stands for, using the slogan "The man can't bust our network."
March 7 - The "eclipse of the century" is covered by all three American networks.
March 16 - The FCC's "Miami channel 10 case" comes to a definite end as the station becomes WPLG.
April - TRT in Turkey launches television in that country.
December 25 - Pluto's Christmas Tree is broadcast on BBC1, the first complete Mickey Mouse cartoon to be shown on British television in colour.
In a cliffhanger on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow, businessman Sam Reynolds is believed to be dead after he perished in Africa. One of the first "exotic" deaths for a soap opera character, it was in tune with actorRobert Mandan's wish to leave the show.
March 30 - Soap opera Somerset premieres on NBC (1970-1976), while fellow soaps A World Apart (1970-1971) and The Best of Everything (1970) make their debut on ABC. It marks the last time multiple soaps premiere on the same day in the US.