The year 1931 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1931.

Events

• May 1 The first wedding is broadcast on television, on New York City's W2XCR.
• July 21 CBS's station W2XAB began broadcasting 28 hours a week in New York City. http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/recording/television5.html

October 30: NBC on Empire State Building which had opened in May 1931

• August At the Berlin Radio Show, Manfred von Ardenne gives the world's first public demonstration of a television system using a cathode-ray tube for both transmission and reception. Ardenne never develops a camera tube, using the CRT instead as a flying-spot scanner to scan slides and film.^[1]
• October 9 Canada's first television station, VE9EC, begins broadcasting in Montreal, Quebec. VE9EC was owned jointly by radio station CKAC and the newspaper La Presse.^[2]
• October 30 NBC installs a television transmitter on top of the Empire State Building.
• November 1 Television images are transmitted from JOAK radio station in Tokyo, Japan by Professors Kenjiro Takayagani and Tomomasa Nakashima. The still images comprise 80 lines at 20 frames per second.
• December 22 NBC begins broadcasting experimental test transmissions from the Empire State Building transmitter.
• December 23 Don Lee Broadcasting signs on W6XAO (later KTSL) from Los Angeles with low-definition electromechanical television, broadcasting one hour of film footage, six days per week.

Debuts

• The Television Ghost premieres on the experimental W2XAB (1931 1933).

Television shows

Births

• January 13 Charles Nelson Reilly, actor, game show panelist (died 2007)
• January 14 -[Himanshu Dev],engineer
• January 17 James Earl Jones, actor
• January 19 Robert MacNeil, news reporter
• February 13 Geoff Edwards, game show host
• March 11 Rupert Murdoch, media mogul
• March 22 William Shatner, actor
• March 26 Leonard Nimoy, actor
• March 27 David Janssen, actor (died 1980)
• April 6 Ivan Dixon, actor (died 2008)
• April 26 Bernie Brillstein, agent, producer (died 2008)
• May 23 Barbara Barrie, actress
• June 8 Dana Wynter, actress
• June 14 Marla Gibbs, actress
• June 20 Martin Landau, actor
• July 6 Della Reese, actress, singer
• July 8 Roone Arledge, producer (died 2002)
• July 27 Jerry Van Dyke, actor
• July 28 Darryl Hickman, actor
• August 25 Regis Philbin, talk show host
• September 4 Mitzi Gaynor, singer, actress
• September 10 Philip Baker Hall, actor
• September 13 Barbara Bain, actress
• September 21 Larry Hagman, actor
• September 30 Angie Dickinson, actress
• October 31 Dan Rather, news reporter
• November 8 Morley Safer, news reporter
• November 12 Dick Clair, writer (died 1988)
• December 3 Jaye P. Morgan, game show panelist
• December 11 Rita Moreno, actress
• December 23 Ronnie Schell, comedian
• December 28 Martin Milner, actor

References

1. ↑ Albert Abramson, Zworykin: Pioneer of Television, University of Illinois Press, 1995, p. 111.
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