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The year 1957 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1957. ==Events== * January 6 – Elvis Presley makes his final appearance on ''The Ed Sullivan Show''. * January 25 – Steve Allen makes his final appearance as host of NBC's ''The Tonight Show''. He is replaced by Jack Lescoulie and the show is changed from a talk/variety show format to be more like the series ''Today'', with the title ''Tonight! America After Dark''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jack Lescoulie-Hollywood Star Walk )〕 * February 16 – In the United Kingdom, the "Toddlers' Truce" (an arrangement whereby there were no TV broadcasts between 6 PM and 7 PM, to allow parents to put their children to bed) is abolished. It had been a major obstacle to the success of ITV. * March 7 – Portugal begins the Rádio e Televisão de Portugal television service after several months of experimentation. * March 31 – The first TV version of ''Cinderella'', starring 21-year-old Julie Andrews, and with songs by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, is broadcast in color by CBS. * April 1 – In Britain, the BBC's ''Panorama'' current affairs television programme presented by Richard Dimbleby broadcasts a spaghetti tree hoax report purporting to show spaghetti being harvested in Switzerland, believed to be the first April Fool's Day joke televised. * April 24 – First broadcast of BBC Television astronomy series ''The Sky at Night'' in the United Kingdom presented by Patrick Moore. This will be broadcast with the same presenter until his death in December 2012. * June – On ''Tonight! America After Dark'', Jack Lescoulie is unsuccessful, so NBC hires Al "Jazzbo" Collins as master of ceremonies. Collins doesn't last long; NBC is already planning to replace him and restore the original format as ''The Tonight Show''. * June 24 – Front Page Challenge, television's longest continuously running panel show, starts broadcasting on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation network. It runs for 38 years. * July 29 – Jack Paar becomes the permanent host for NBC's ''The Tonight Show''. The format reverts to a talk/variety show. * August 5 – ''American Bandstand'' begins its 30-year syndicated run on US network television. * August 31 – Central Scotland's independent channel Scottish Television goes on air, the first 7-day-a-week ITV franchise to do so. * September 7 – NBC introduces an animated version of its "living color" peacock logo. *November 26 – WHDH-TV/5-Boston begins broadcasting. It soon becomes involved in controversy about its license. It finally loses its license in 1972. * December 25 – The British Royal Christmas Message is televised with the Queen (Elizabeth II) on camera for the first time. * When Nat King Cole's television series is unable to get a sponsor, Frankie Laine is the first artist to cross TV's color line, foregoing his usual salary of $10,000.00 to become the first white artist to appear as a guest. Other major performers follow suit, including Mel Tormé and Tony Bennett, but, despite an increase in ratings, the show still fails to acquire a national sponsor. * Gorni Kramer makes his first appearance on Italian television, in the program ''Il Musichiere''. * Cyprus began a limited television service, serving only three hours a day, twice-weekly. By 1960 a full service will be initiated. * CBC Television begins nationwide broadcasting of NHL games as Canada's microwave network is completed coast-to-coast. Prior to this, broadcasts had been delayed. * Westinghouse introduces the first rectangular tube color TV. Due to issues with convergence (aligning the guns to get a single image), the sets were withdrawn from the market. The first successful rectangular color tubes were sold first during the mid-1960s. 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「1957 in television」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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