The year1954 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list oftelevision-related events during 1954.

• January 1 –NBC broadcasts theRose Parade from Pasadena, California inNTSC color. The broadcast uses a new mobile color TV studio (truck) and the program is carried across the continent on 21 stations.RCA strategically places Color TV sets in public viewing areas such as hotel lobbies because the first sets only become available to the public in the spring.
• January 3 –Programma Nazionale began transmissions inItaly, making it the first TV network in Italian television.
• January 5 – WAYS-TV, predecessor ofWCCB, signed on the air. It was North Carolina's second UHF station (afterWNAO-TV inRaleigh), as well as the second television station in the Charlotte market.
• January 10 –CBMT opens inMontreal, making that city the first in Canada to have 2 stations operating. The new station uses the English language, leavingCBFT to continue entirely in French.
• January 11 – The first weather forecast with an in-vision presenter is televised in theUK.
• January 12 – Experimental television begins inNorway.
• February 28 –Telma became the first television station in Morocco. It was closed down after 15 months on the air and was left without an official TV station until 1962.
• March 28 –WKAQ-TV became the first television station inPuerto Rico.
• April – TheAmerican Broadcasting Company broadcasts the Army-McCarthy hearings live and in their entirety.
• May 1
  • WAPA-TV becomes the second television station inPuerto Rico.
  • Télévision suisse romande TSR is launched as the first Italian broadcaster in Switzerland.
• May 17–23 – One week (the so-called "Sandrewsveckan" or "Sandrews week") of experimental television broadcasts are aired in Sweden, the first such programs in the country.
• June 5 – The last new episode of the comic variety program,Your Show of Shows, airs.
• June 6 – TheEurovision network makes its firstofficial transmission: it broadcasts the Narcissus Festival inMontreux, Switzerland, followed by an evening program from Rome, including a tour of theVatican City, an address fromPope Pius XII and anapostolic blessing.^[1][2]
• June 13 – Canal Nacional, predecessor ofCanal 1, launched as the firstColombian television station.
• July 5 – First actual news bulletin,News and Newsreel, aired onBBC Television, replacingTelevision Newsreel.
• September 11 – TheMiss America Beauty Contest airs for the first time on national television in theUnited States. 27 million viewers watched asLee Ann Meriwether wins the title. Meriwether would later become a television actress, co-starring inBarnaby Jones (1973–1980).
• September 16 –CBET-DT began transmissions as CKLW-TV at 2:50 p.m., it was the first television station in Windsor.
• September 26 –WCAX-TV signs on the air as WMVT, making it the first television station in Vermont.
• October 2 –The Jimmy Durante Show premieres on NBC (1954–1956).
• October 29 –Sveriges Radio begins broadcasting TV in Sweden and apart from news and a weather forecast, the first Swedish TV programme is "En skål för televisionen" ("A Toast to Television") led byLennart Hyland. For the first few months (until spring 1955), Swedish TV is broadcast one evening a week and for about an hour each time.
• November 3 –Disney'sAlice in Wonderland airs on ABC in the United States.
• November 6 –LTV began broadcasting for the first time in Latvia and the oldest in theBaltic countries.
• November 19 –Télé Monte-Carlo launched inMonaco, the first microstate to have a television network.
• December 12 – BBC Television broadcasts its famous, and controversial, adaptation ofGeorge Orwell's novelNineteen Eighty-Four.^[3]
• TheTelevision Act 1954 authorises setting up the infrastructure for British commercial television.
• TheBritish Academy Television Awards, the most prestigious awards of the British television industry, are first awarded.
• TheRCACT-100 and Westinghouse 15" color sets hit the market. Neither are big sellers.

• Adventures of Superman (1952–1958)
• American Bandstand (1952–1989)
• Bozo the Clown (1949–present)
• Buick-Berle Show (1953–1954); the show was renamedThe Milton Berle Show (1954–1967) this year
• Candid Camera (1948–2014)
• Cavalcade of America (1952-1957)
• Cisco Kid (1950–1956)
• The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950-1955)
• Come Dancing (UK) (1949–1995)
• Death Valley Days (1952–1975)
• Dragnet (1951–1959)
• General Motors Theatre (Can) (1953–1956, 1958–1961)
• Gillette Cavalcade of Sports (1946–1960)
• Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951–present)
• Hawkins Falls (1950, 1951–1955)
• Hockey Night in Canada (1952–present)
• Howdy Doody (1947–1960)
• I Love Lucy (1951–1960)
• Kraft Television Theater (1947–1958)
• Kukla, Fran and Ollie (1947–1957)
• Life is Worth Living (1952–1957)
• Life with Elizabeth (1952–1955)
• Love of Life (1951–1980)
• Meet the Press (1947–present)
• Muffin the Mule (1946–1955)^[4]
• My Little Margie (1952–1955)
• Our Miss Brooks (1952-1956)
• Panorama (UK) (1953–present)
• Search for Tomorrow (1951–1986)
• Sky King (1951-1962)
• The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952–1966)
• The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950-1955)
• The Ed Sullivan Show (1948–1971)^[5]
• The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950–1958)
• The Goldbergs (1949–1955)
• The Good Old Days (UK) (1953–1983)
• The Guiding Light (1952–2009)
• The Jack Benny Program (1950–1965)
• The Roy Rogers Show (1951–1957)
• The Today Show (1952–present)
• The Voice of Firestone (1949–1963)
• This Is Your Life (US) (1952–1961)
• Truth or Consequences (1950–1988)
• What's My Line (1950–1967)
• Where's Raymond? orThe Ray Bolger Show (1953–1955)
• Your Hit Parade (1950–1959)

• January 1 –Annie Oakley (1954–1957)
• January 4 –The Brighter Day (1954–1962)
• January 23 –Stories of the Century (1954–1955)
• February 1 -The Secret Storm (1954–1974)
• March 11 –The Public Defender onCBS (1954–1955)
• April 2 –The Grove Family, onBBC Television (1954–1957); generally considered the first British TVsoap opera
• April 8 –Justice onNBC (1954–1956)
• April 18 –The Martha Wright Show onABC
• April 26 –The Tony Martin Show on NBC
• July 5 -Concerning Miss Marlowe on NBC.
• July 6 -The Blue Angel on CBS.^[6]
• July 16 -The Best in Mystery on NBC. (1954)
• August 5 –So You Want to Lead a Band on ABC (1954–1955)
• August 28 –The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan on NBC (1954–1955)
• September 7
  • Stop the Music premiered for the second time on ABC after a two-year hiatus
  • It's a Great Life on NBC (1954–1956)
• September 10 –Dear Phoebe on NBC (1954–1955)
• September 12 –Lassie on CBS (1954–1973)
• September 18 –Willy on CBS (1954–1955)
• September 27 –The Tonight Show on NBC (1954–present)
• October 2
  • The Imogene Coca Show on NBC (1954–1955)
  • The Jimmy Durante Show on NBC (1954–1956)
• October 3 -Father Knows Best on CBS (1954-60)
• October 5 -The Elgin Hour on ABC (1954-1955)
• October 7 –The Mail Story, subtitledHandle with Care, on ABC (1954)
• October 14 –Flash Gordon (1954–1955), starringSteve Holland
• October 15 –The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin on ABC (1954–1959)
• October 19 -The Halls of Ivy on CBS (1954-1955)
• October 21 – The CBSanthology series,Climax! (1954–1958) airs an adaptation ofIan Fleming's novel,Casino Royale, starringBarry Nelson as an Americanized version of spyJames Bond; the first dramatic adaptation of a Bond novel
• October 22 -The Jack Carson Show onNBC (1954-1955)
• October 27 – TheWalt Disney anthology series debuts asDisneyland (1954–present; asDisneyland 1954–1958)
• November 13 –Fabian of the Yard, the first British TVpolice procedural, debuts on BBC (1954–1956)
• December 21 –Zoo Quest on BBC Television (1954–1964)
• Face the Nation on CBS (1954–present)
• The Jo Stafford Show, a 15-minute primetime variety series, on CBS (1954–1955)
• The National premieres asThe National News on CBC (1954–present)
• That's My Boy on CBS

• Lew Ayres –Omnibus
• Carroll Baker –The Web
• Angie Dickinson –The Colgate Comedy Hour
• Dennis Hopper –Cavalcade of America
• Ruby Keeler –The Jackie Gleason Show
• Jayne Mansfield –Lux Video Theatre
• Ethel Merman –The Colgate Comedy Hour
• Robert Morse –The Secret Storm
• Nell O'Day –Studio One
• Ginger Rogers –Producers' Showcase
• Gilbert Roland –Ford Theatre
• Gena Rowlands –Top Secret
• Harry Dean Stanton –Inner Sanctum
• Adam West –The Philco Television Playhouse

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