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The year 1953 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1953. ==Events== *January 19 – 68% of all U.S. television sets are tuned in to ''I Love Lucy'' to watch Lucy give birth to little Ricky. *February 1 * *Japanese television begins when JOAK-TV begins broadcasting from Tokyo. * *General Electric Theater airs for the first time on CBS. *February 18 – Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz sign an $8,000,000 contract to continue the ''I Love Lucy'' television series through 1955. *February 26 – Fulton Sheen, on his program ''Life Is Worth Living'', reads Shakespeare's ''Julius Caesar'', with the names of high-ranking Soviet officials replacing the main characters. At the end of the reading, Sheen intones that "Stalin must one day meet his judgment". Stalin dies one week later. *March 17 – Patrick Troughton becomes television's first Robin Hood, playing the eponymous folk hero in the first of six half-hour episodes of ''Robin Hood'', shown weekly until April 21 on the BBC Television Service. *March 25 – CBS concedes victory to RCA in the war over color television standards. *April 3 – ''TV Guide'' is published for the first time in the United States, with 10 editions and a circulation of 1,562,000. *May 25 – KUHT in Houston becomes the first non-commercial educational TV station. *June 2 – The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is televised from London. Sales of TV sets in the United Kingdom rise sharply in the weeks leading up to the event. It is also one of the earliest broadcasts to be deliberately recorded for posterity and still exists in its entirety. More than twenty million viewers around the world watch the coverage; to ensure Canadians could see it on the same day, British Royal Air Force Canberras fly film of the ceremony across the Atlantic Ocean to be broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the first non-stop flight between the United Kingdom and the Canadian mainland. In Goose Bay, Labrador, the film is transferred to a Royal Canadian Air Force CF-100 jet fighter for the further trip to Montreal. In all, three such voyages are made as the coronation proceeds. *July 18 – ''The Quatermass Experiment'', first of the famous ''Quatermass'' science-fiction serials by Nigel Kneale, begins its run on the BBC. *''The Tonight Show'' begins as a local New York variety show, originally titled ''The Knickerbocker Beer Show''. *August 30 – NBC's ''Kukla, Fran, and Ollie'' is the first publicly announced experimental broadcast of a program in RCA compatible color. *October 18 – A live television adaptation of the Shakespeare play ''King Lear'' starring Orson Welles is aired on CBS as part of the ''Omnibus'' series. *October 19 – Arthur Godfrey dismisses Julius La Rosa on the air. * October 23 – Alto Broadcasting System of the Philippines makes the first television broadcast in Southeast Asia through DZAQ-TV. Alto Broadcasting System is the predecessor of what is now ABS-CBN Corporation. *November 22 – RCA airs (with special permission from the FCC) the first commercial color program in compatible color, ''The Colgate Comedy Hour with Donald O'Connor''. *December 2 – BBC broadcasts its 'Television Symbol' for the first time, the first animated television presentation symbol. *December 17 – The FCC reverses its 1951 decision and approves the RCA/NTSC color system. *December 24 – ''Dragnet'' becomes the first filmed drama to be televised in color each year as a network television program. However, only this one episode, entitled "The Big Little Jesus", is filmed in color during the 1950s; the show returns in the late 1960s in color. 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「1953 in television」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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