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The year 1948 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1948. ==Events== *February 9 - WLWT, Cincinnati, Ohio, begins commercial broadcasting, changing its call letters from experimental station W8XCT. *March 20 – Renowned Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini makes his television debut, conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in the U.S. in a program featuring the works of Richard Wagner. *April 3 – Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is played on television in its entirety for the first time in a concert featuring Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The chorus is conducted by Robert Shaw. *June 21 – The first network telecast of political conventions from Philadelphia. *July 29 – The BBC Television Service begins its coverage of the 1948 Olympic Games in London by broadcasting the opening ceremony. From now until the closing ceremony on August 14 the BBC will broadcast an average three and a half hours a day of live coverage from the Games, using a special coaxial cable linking the main venue at Wembley Stadium to the television service's base at Alexandra Palace. This is the most ambitious sustained outside broadcast yet attempted by the BBC, but is completed without serious problems. *July 30 – Professional wrestling premieres during prime-time on the DuMont Network. *August 15 – The first network nightly newscast, CBS-TV News, debuts on CBS with Douglas Edwards as journalist. *November 4 - Moscow TV facility adopted a new 625 line PAL television standard. *November 29 * *Roller Derby is broadcast from NY on the CBS television network. * *The television puppet show series ''Kukla, Fran and Ollie'' is transferred to the NBC Midwest Network. *December 18 — WDSU TV, NBC affiliate, Becomes the first station in New Orleans and the State of Louisiana *CBS begins network programming. *ABC establishes its first television station in New York. *Television manufacturing begins in Canada. *Telecasts of the NBC Symphony Orchestra, begin until 1954. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1948 in television」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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