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The year 1958 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1958. ==Events== *January 14 – Television Wales and the West (TWW), the first ITV franchise for South Wales and West of England, begins broadcasting. *17 February 1958 – Pope Pius XII designates St. Clare of Assisi the patron saint of television. Thereafter, placing her icon on a television set was said to improve reception.() *July 1 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada. The CBC's microwave network between Nova Scotia and British Columbia, completed this year, makes it the longest in the world. *August 30 – Southern Television, the ITV franchise for South Central and South East England, begins broadcasting. *September 16 – Orson Welles's ''The Fountain of Youth'' is broadcast on NBC-TV's ''Colgate Theatre''.〔Welles, Orson, and Peter Bogdanovich, edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum, ''This is Orson Welles''. New York: HarperCollins Publishers 1992 ISBN 0-06-016616-9〕 Filmed in 1956 for a proposed Desilu series, the half-hour program airs only once and becomes the only unsold pilot ever to win a Peabody Award.〔Adams, Val, "Peabody Awards for 1958 Listed". ''The New York Times'', April 8, 1959.〕〔Arnaz, Desi. ''A Book''. New York: William Morrow, 1976. ISBN 0688003427〕 *October 17 – Fred Astaire makes his TV starring debut in the NBC special, ''An Evening with Fred Astaire'', which later won nine Emmy Awards and is one of the first TV specials to be preserved on videotape. *November 30 – During the live broadcast of the ''Armchair Theatre'' play ''Underground'' on the ITV network in the UK, actor Gareth Jones suffers a fatal heart attack between two of his scenes while in make-up. *Ampex demonstrates their design for a color Video Tape Recorder. *In the United Kingdom, the top-rated show of the year was the ITV game show Dotto, adapted from an American game show which in turn was based on children's Connect the dots game. * The original American version of "Dotto" was the first game show to be implicated in the quiz show scandals, and was cancelled in August. * Top-rated prime-time game show "Twenty One" was cancelled by NBC in October after former contestant Herb Stempel charged that the series was rigged and that he had been ordered to lose a match to the popular Charles Van Doren. *Fall – The quiz show scandals resulted in the cancellation of the original big-money game show, CBS' "The $64,000 Question", and creating havoc within the US television industry. * DuMont company sells its television manufacturing assets to Emerson company. The quality decreases. 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「1958 in television」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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