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The year 1956 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1956. ==Events== *January 25–February 5 – The 1956 Winter Olympics in Italy are the first to be broadcast to an international Audience. The Soviet Union used its technological influence to broadcast the Cortina Winter Games to a western audience, from a communist point of view. *January 28 – Elvis Presley makes his national television debut on CBS on the program ''Stage Show'', the first of six appearances on the series. *February 14 – Television broadcasting begins in Azerbaijan which was then the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. *February 17 – The English Midlands becomes the first part of the UK outside London to receive Independent Television (ITV), when the Associated Television Network (as ATV Midlands) begins broadcasting their weekday franchise. The weekend franchise, Associated British Corporation (ABC), begins operation a day later. *February – U.M. & M. TV Corporation acquires the pre-October 1950 Paramount Pictures cartoons and theatrical shorts, except for the Popeye and Superman cartoons. *April 2 – ''As the World Turns'' and ''The Edge of Night'' premiere on CBS as the first half-hour American soap operas. Previously, all soap operas had been just fifteen minutes in length. *April 3 – Elvis Presley appears on ''The Milton Berle Show''. *April – WNBQ (now WMAQ-TV) in Chicago becomes the first TV station to broadcast all its local programming in color. *April 14 – Ampex company demonstrates a videotape recorder at the 1956 NARTB (now National Association of Broadcasters) convention in Chicago, Illinois. It was the demonstration of the first practical and commercially successful videotape format known as 2" Quadruplex. The three networks place orders for the recorders. *April – US Senator Estes Kefauver holds congressional hearings on the rising rates of juvenile crime and publishes an article in Reader's Digest named "Let's Get Rid of Tele-Violence." *May 3 – Granada Television begins broadcasting, extending ITV's coverage to Northern England. Associated British Corporation's weekend franchise begins operation two days later. *May 6 – Elvis Presley appears on ''The Milton Berle Show''. *May 25 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland. It is primarily a radio program at this stage, as few Europeans can afford TV sets. *July 1 – Elvis Presley appears on ''The Steve Allen Show''. *August 6 – Final telecast of the DuMont Network. The US would not have a fourth major network until the launch of the Fox network in 1986. *September – NBC introduces a still version of its ''peacock'' color logo. *September 4 – Television broadcasting begins in Sweden. *September 9 – Elvis Presley appears on ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' for the first time. *September 15 – Gabriel J. Fontana wins a record $64,000 from the Super Bonus Stunt on ''Beat The Clock.'' * September 16 – TCN-9 Sydney becomes the first Australian TV station to begin regular transmission. *October 1 – Ernie Kovacs becomes the host for NBC's ''The Tonight Show'' on Mondays and Tuesdays. *October 29 * *First use of videotape in network television programming; CBS uses its Ampex VTR to record the evening news, anchored by Douglas Edwards. The tape is then fed to West Coast stations three hours later. * *Chet Huntley and David Brinkley take over anchor duties of the NBC evening newscast, which is renamed ''The Huntley-Brinkley Report''. *November 3 – The 1939 MGM movie ''The Wizard of Oz'' is shown on television for the first time in the USA, by CBS (the viewing audience was estimated at 45 million people). *November 5 – The Australian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first TV broadcast from its Sydney studios. It is inaugurated by then-Prime Minister Robert Menzies. *November 19 – The Australian Broadcasting Corporation begins broadcast in Melbourne. Along with its Sydney counterpart, they air the 1956 Summer Olympics. *November – The first use of videotape for a network television entertainment program. Jonathan Winters uses videotape and superimposing techniques to be able to play two characters in the same skit for his NBC television show. *Television broadcasting begins in Spain and Uruguay. *Black-and-white portable TV sets are first marketed. *December 31 – Former Game series host Bob Barker makes his national TV debut on the program ''Truth or Consequences''. 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「1956 in television」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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