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Not to be confused with the rap group from Moscow, Idaho called 1940's Television.

The year 1940 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1940.

January The FCC holds public hearings on television.
February 25 The first ice hockey game is televised in the United States, the New York Rangers vs Montreal Canadiens, from Madison Square Garden on W2XBS-TV.

The NHL New York Rangers were a tenant of the 50th-Street MSG from 1926 to 1968 (1932 33 Team Picture).

February 28 The first basketball game is televised, from Madison Square Garden; Fordham vs the University of Pittsburgh.
March 10 The Metropolitan Opera broadcast for the first time from NBC studios at Rockefeller Center an abridged performance of the first act of Pagliacci, along with excerpts from four other operas.
March 15 RCA cuts the price of television sets.
May 21 Bell Telephone Laboratories transmits a 441-line video signal, with a bandwidth of 2.7 MHz, by coaxial cable from New York to Philadelphia and back.
June W2XBS in New York (NBC) covers the Republican National Convention from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for 33 hours, over a five day period. The signal is transmitted via coaxial cable.
August 29 Peter Carl Goldmark of CBS announces his invention of a color television system.
September 3 CBS resumes its television transmissions with the first demonstration of high definition color TV, by W2XAB, transmitting from the Chrysler Building.