The year 1943 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1943.
Events[]
- May 8 - Opening of Paris Télévision - Fernsehsender Paris, a channel operated by German occupation authorities (Kurt Hinzmann, former director of Fernsehsender „Paul Nipkow“) after an agreement between Telefunken and Compagnie des Compteurs, with a (German) 441-line standard. Local French programmes and Fernsehsender „Paul Nipkow“ programmes were interlaced.
- June - Work is begun for the U.S. Army Air Forces to develop a remotely-controlled glide bomb guided by a radio receiver and a television transmitter using a 625-line iconoscope tube. The first are completed in July and tested in August.
- December 23 - The first complete opera, Hansel and Gretel, is telecast, by WRGB in Schenectady.
- The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is formed. Its television network debuts in 1948.
- Germany experiments with a flying bomb guided by a television camera, created by Fernseh, using both the Superikonoscope and the Farnsworth image dissector.
Debuts[]
- The Voice of Firestone Televues (1943-1947; renamed The Voice of Firestone, running from 1949 to 1963).
Television shows[]
| Series | Debut | Ended |
|---|---|---|
| The Voice of Firestone Televues | 1943 | 1947 |
| 1949 | 1963 |
Births[]
- January 1 - Don Novello, actor, Saturday Night Live.
- January 13 - Richard Moll, actor, Night Court.
- January 23 - Gil Gerard, actor.
- January 24 - Sharon Tate, actress, model (d. 1969)
- January 28 - John Beck, actor.
- February 27 - Mary Frann, actress (d. 1998).
- March 18 - Kevin Dobson, actor.
- March 29 - Eric Idle, actor, comedian.
- May 24 - Gary Burghoff, actor.
- May 27 - Bruce Weitz, actor.
- May 31 - Sharon Gless, actress.
- June 16 - Joan Van Ark, actress.
- July 3 - Kurtwood Smith, actor.
- July 31 - Susan Flannery, actress.
- August 2 - Max Wright, actor.
- October 8 - Chevy Chase, actor, comedian, Saturday Night Live.
- October 27 - Carmen Argenziano, actor, Stargate SG-1.
- November 20 - Veronica Hamel, actress.
- December 23 - Harry Shearer, actor, Saturday Night Live, This Is Spinal Tap, The Simpsons.
- December 28 - Richard Whiteley, presenter (d. 2005).
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