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The year 1963 involved some significant events in television. Below are lists of notable TV-related events.

Events

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  • January 1 – Osamu Tezuka's Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy), Japan's first serialized animated series based on the popular manga, is broadcast for the first time, on the Japanese television station Fuji Television.[1]
  • January 13 – BBC Television broadcasts the play Madhouse on Castle Street in the Sunday-Night Theatre series. The play co-stars a young American folk music singer named Bob Dylan.[2]
  • March 12 – Television broadcasts begin in the Nakhichevan ASSR (present-day Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic within Azerbaijan) with the launch of Nakhchivan TV.[3]
  • April 1 – German terrestrial channel ZDF (pronounced tseht-day-ehf) begins broadcasting.
  • April 15 - Three months after the first test broadcast, Television Singapura Channel 5 (now Mediacorp Channel 5) signs on as Singapore's first TV station.
  • May 15 – First television pictures transmitted from a US manned space capsule ("Faith 7"). Due to the poor picture quality, only NBC carries the transmission, and on tape-delay, not live.
  • July 8 – The English comedy sketch Dinner for One with Freddie Frinton, having been shown live on Peter Frankenfeld's show GutenAbend in 1962, is recorded in English by Norddeutscher Rundfunk before an audience at the Theater am Besenbinderhof, Hamburg, West Germany. Regularly repeated on New Year's Eve in Germany and elsewhere, it is not seen in its entirety on British television until 2018.[4]
  • July 22 – Bob Crane quits his DJ job at radio station KNX to become a regular on The Donna Reed Show after dividing time between the Screen Gems TV show and the CBS Radio affiliate. Crane had been a top five morning drive radio DJ since the mid-1950s in the Los Angeles market.
  • August 28 – Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his I Have a Dream speech which is covered by major American networks.
  • September 2 – CBS Evening News becomes network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
  • September 9 – One week later, NBC also expands its evening network news program, The Huntley-Brinkley Report, to 30 minutes.
  • September 27 – The Littlest Hobo makes its debut on TV across North America with the first episode entitled "Blue Water Sailor".
  • September 29 – The Judy Garland Show makes its debut on CBS, which later got cancelled in 1964 after one season (due to competition with the ever popular NBC western Bonanza airing in the same time slot).
  • September 30 – BBC Television begins using a globe as its symbol. They will continue to use it in varying forms until 2002.
  • October 1 – ABC News at last drops its dependence on outside sources of news film and begins to rely on its own camera crews.
  • October 14 − ABC affiliate WGHP in High Point, North Carolina signs on the air.
  • November 22 – All three major U.S. networks start pre-emptions for a week following the news of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The pre-emptions unofficially begin a few minutes after President Kennedy is shot: on the top-rated American soap opera As the World Turns, Nancy Hughes (Helen Wagner) is in the middle of a discussion with Grandpa (Santos Ortega) about Bob's (Don Hastings) decision to invite Lisa (Eileen Fulton) to Thanksgiving dinner when Walter Cronkite interrupts Wagner mid-speech to deliver the bulletin. As the World Turns continues for one more scene (at this time, the show is transmitted live) before Cronkite cuts in permanently. News of the assassination, and later the funeral procession, are the first television broadcasts across the Pacific Ocean (via Relay 1 satellite).
  • November 23 – On BBC Television in the United Kingdom:
  • November 24 – Jack Ruby murders John F. Kennedy's suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald live on television.[6]
  • November 28 - CBS' Huntsville television station WHNT begins on the air.[7]
  • December 7 – Instant Replay is used for the first time during the live transmission of the Army Navy Game by its inventor, director, Tony Verna.
  • December 28 – The launch of television broadcasting service in Malaysia, TV Malaysia, as predecessor of RTM TV1, member of Radio Televisyen Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, presided by government leaders from studios in Ampang Road in the capital.[8]
  • In Blanchard, North Dakota, construction on the KTHI TV transmitter mast (now KVLY-TV) was completed. Upon completion, its height of 2,063 ft (629m) made it the tallest structure in the world until 1966, when the nearby KXJB-TV mast (now KRDK) was completed. It still stands today, but at 1,987 ft tall due to an FCC spectrum repack.
  • For the first time, most Americans say that they get more of their news from television than newspapers.
  • The television remote control is authorized by the FCC.

Programs/programmes

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Debuts

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Ending this year

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Date Show Debut
January 25 Don't Call Me Charlie! 1962
March 17 The Jetsons (returned in 1985)
April 2 Hawaiian Eye 1959
April 14 Car 54, Where Are You? 1961
May 5 Ensign O'Toole 1962
May 14 Empire
May 21 Laramie 1959
The Voice of Firestone 1949
June 20 Leave It to Beaver 1957
June 23 The Real McCoys
August 26 Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har 1962
Touché Turtle and Dum Dum
August 30 Wally Gator
September 28 The Shari Lewis Show 1960

Births

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Date Name Notability
January 3 New Jack American professional wrestler (died 2021)
January 4 Dave Foley Canadian comedic actor (The Kids in the Hall, NewsRadio)
January 9 Bob Gosse Actor
January 16 James May English presenter (Top Gear)
January 19 Martin Bashir British journalist
January 20 James Denton Actor (Desperate Housewives)
January 21 Hakeem Olajuwon NBA basketball player
Detlef Schrempf NBA basketball player
January 23 Gail O'Grady Actress (NYPD Blue, American Dreams)
Tony Daniels Actor
January 25 Jim Axelrod National Correspondent
Don Mancini Screenwriter
January 29 Monica Horan Actress (Everybody Loves Raymond)
February 10 Philip Glenister Actor
February 12 John Michael Higgins Actor
February 14 Enrico Colantoni Canadian actor (Just Shoot Me!, Veronica Mars, Flashpoint)
February 15 Steven Michael Quezada Actor
February 17 Michael Jordan NBA basketball player (Space Jam)
Larry the Cable Guy American stand-up comedian
Rene Syler American broadcast television journalist
February 19 Seal British singer
Jessica Tuck Actress (One Life to Live, Judging Amy, True Blood)
February 20 Charles Barkley NBA basketball player and TV analyst
February 21 William Baldwin Actor
February 26 Chase Masterson Actress (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
March 1 Bryan Batt Actor
Russell Wong Actor
March 5 Joel Osteen Televangelist
March 6 D. L. Hughley Actor and comedian (The Hughleys)
March 7 Bill Brochtrup Actor (NYPD Blue)
March 9 David Pogue TV presenter
March 11 Alex Kingston Actress (ER)
March 12 Jake Weber English actor (Medium)
March 15 Greg Nicotero American special make-up effects creator
March 16 Jerome Flynn English actor
March 17 Jane Tranter English television executive
March 18 Geoffrey Lower Actor (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman)
Vanessa Williams Actress and singer (Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives)
March 19 Mary Scheer Actress and comedian (Mad TV, iCarly)
March 20 Gregg Binkley Actor (Raising Hope)
Kathy Ireland Actress and model
March 31 Paul Mercurio Actor
April 3 Sarah Woodward Actress
April 4 Graham Norton TV presenter
April 8 Dean Norris Actor (Breaking Bad)
April 9 Joe Scarborough Television host
April 14 Steve Hartman Broadcast journalist
April 15 Paula Pell Actress
April 16 Jimmy Osmond Actor
April 17 Joel Murray Actor (Dharma & Greg)
April 18 Eric McCormack Canadian-American actor (Will & Grace, Perception)
Conan O'Brien Television host and comedian (Late Night, Conan)
Don McGill American television producer
April 21 Erik King Actor (Oz, Dexter)
Roy Dupuis Actor
April 26 Olivia Birkelund Actress (All My Children)[9]
April 29 Bruce Harwood Actor
May 9 Justin Vivian Bond Actor
May 10 Darryl M. Bell Actor (A Different World)
May 11 Roark Critchlow Canadian actor (Drake & Josh, Zoey 101)
May 21 Richard Appel American writer
May 24 Joe Dumars NBA basketball player
May 25 Mike Myers Comic actor (Saturday Night Live)
May 29 Tracey E. Bregman Soap opera actress (The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful)
Lisa Whelchel Actress (The Facts of Life)
Mitchell Hurwitz Writer
May 31 Hugh Dillon Canadian musician and actor (Flashpoint)
June 1 Kevin A. Ross American host
Brian Goodman American actor
June 6 Jason Isaacs English actor
June 9 Johnny Depp Actor (21 Jump Street)
June 10 Jeanne Tripplehorn Actress (Criminal Minds, Big Love)
June 12 Tim DeKay Actor
June 13 Greg Daniels Writer
June 15 Helen Hunt Actress (Mad About You)
June 17 Greg Kinnear Actor (Talk Soup)
June 19 Laura Ingraham American conservative television host
June 20 Jeff Beal Composer
June 22 Randy Couture Actor
June 25 John Benjamin Hickey Actor
June 27 Jay Karnes Actor
June 28 Charlie Clouser Composer
June 29 Cathy Konrad American film and television producer
June 30 Rupert Graves Actor
July 5 Dorien Wilson Actor (The Parkers)
Edie Falco Actress
July 8 Rocky Carroll Actor (Roc, Chicago Hope, NCIS)
July 13 Kenny Johnson Actor
July 14 Maureen O'Boyle Reporter
July 15 Brigitte Nielsen Actress
July 16 Duane Clark Writer
July 17 John Ventimiglia Actor
July 22 Rob Estes Actor (Silk Stalkings, Melrose Place, 90210)
Joanna Going Actress
July 24 Karl Malone NBA basketball player
July 27 Donnie Yen Actor
July 29 Alexandra Paul Actress and model (Baywatch)
July 30 Lisa Kudrow Actress (Phoebe on Friends)
Chris Mullin NBA basketball player
July 31 Larry Romano Actor
August 1 Coolio Rapper (died 2022)
John Carroll Lynch Actor
Demián Bichir Actor
August 3 Isaiah Washington Actor (Grey's Anatomy)
August 5 Mark Strong Actor
August 6 Charles Ingram Quiz show winner
August 7 Harold Perrineau Actor (Oz, Lost, Constantine)
Julia Ford English actress
Ramon Estevez American actor
August 8 Jon Turteltaub Producer
August 9 Whitney Houston Singer and actress (died 2012)
Lonnie Quinn Anchor
August 13 Steve Higgins Actor
August 16 Christine Cavanaugh Voice actress (Rugrats, Darkwing Duck, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Dexter's Laboratory) (died 2014)
August 19 John Stamos Actor (Jesse on Full House)
Matthew Glave Actor
Martin Daniels English magician entertainer
August 30 Michael Chiklis Actor (The Commish, The Shield)
John King News anchor
September 3 Beth McCarthy-Miller Director
Holt McCallany Actor
September 5 Kristian Alfonso Actress (Days of Our Lives)
September 7 W. Earl Brown American actor
September 8 Brad Silberling American television and film director
September 10 Sean O'Bryan American actor
September 12 Ramón Franco American actor (Tour of Duty)
Norberto Barba American director
September 14 Tony Becker Actor (Tour of Duty)
September 15 Beth Cahill Actress (Saturday Night Live)
September 16 Richard Marx Singer
Dino Andrade Voice actor
September 17 James Urbaniak Actor
September 18 Dan Povenmire Voice actor (Heinz Doofenshmirtz on Phineas and Ferb)
Christopher Heyerdahl Actor
September 19 Jarvis Cocker Presenter
September 25 Tate Donovan Actor (The O.C., Damages)
September 27 Scott Lawrence Actor (JAG)
Marc Maron Actor
September 28 Susan Walters Actress (Loving, The Young and the Restless) and model
September 29 Les Claypool Musician
October 1 Beth Chamberlin Actress (Guiding Light)
October 6 Elisabeth Shue Actress (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
October 9 Sheila Kelley American actress (L.A. Law, Sisters)
October 12 JoAnn Willette Actress (Just the Ten of Us)
October 13 Chip Foose TV host
Hiro Kanagawa Actor
October 14 Lori Petty Actress
October 25 Jon Dixon Actor (Felicity, Alias, Lost)
Melinda McGraw Actress
October 26 Tom Cavanagh Canadian actor (Ed, The Flash)
October 27 Marla Maples Actress
October 28 Lauren Holly Actress (Picket Fences, NCIS)
Sheryl Underwood Actress
October 29 Tim Minear Screenwriter
October 30 Michael Beach Actor (ER, Third Watch)
October 31 Rob Schneider Actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live)
November 3 Brian Henson Voice actor
November 5 Tatum O'Neal Actress
November 8 Eric B. DJ
November 10 Hugh Bonneville English actor (Downton Abbey)
Tommy Davidson Comedian and actor (In Living Color, The Proud Family)
November 12 Sam Lloyd Actor (Scrubs) (died 2020)
November 17 Felice Schachter Actress (The Facts of Life)
Dylan Walsh Actor
November 19 Terry Farrell Actress and model (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Becker)
November 20 Ming-Na Wen Actress (ER, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
November 21 Nicollette Sheridan Actress (Knots Landing, Desperate Housewives)
November 23 Armando Iannucci Writer
November 25 Kevin Chamberlin Actor
Sonja Morgan American television personality
Bernie Kosar Sportscaster
November 27 Fisher Stevens Actor (Early Edition)
December 2 Dan Gauthier Actor (One Life to Live)
December 5 Doctor Dré Former MTV VJ
Kerry Brown Musician
December 7 Randall Einhorn Director
December 8 Wendell Pierce Actor
December 16 Benjamin Bratt Actor (Law & Order, Private Practice)
James Mangold Television director
December 18 Brad Pitt Actor (Glory Days)[10]
December 19 Jennifer Beals Actress
December 20 Joel Gretsch Actor
December 23 Jess Harnell Voice actor (Animaniacs, Doc McStuffins, Sofia the First)
Jim Harbaugh Coach
December 26 Roger Neill Composer
December 28 Willow Bay American television journalist

Deaths

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Date Name Age Notability
June 10 Timothy Birdsall 27 English cartoonist (That Was the Week That Was)

Television debuts

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Ledoux, Trish (1997). The complete anime guide : Japanese animation film directory & resource guide. Issaquah, Wash: Tiger Mountain Press. p. 9. ISBN 9780964954250.
  2. ^ "Jones, Evan". Film and TV database. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 2009-09-25. Retrieved 2010-02-14.
  3. ^ "Naxçıvan Dövlət Televiziyası və Radiosu, "Nuhçıxan" İnformasiya Agentliyi yeni-yeni uğurlara imza atır". Azertac (in Azerbaijani). 1 April 2020. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  4. ^ Bolzen, Stefanie (2018-12-30). "Dinner for One: the British comedy Germans have been laughing at for years". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
  5. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  6. ^ Bergreen, Laurence (1980). Look Now, Pay Later: The Rise of Network Broadcasting. New York: Doubleday and Company. ISBN 978-0-451-61966-2.
  7. ^ "WHNT's Founder Brought Station On Air In Crucial Time". WHNT.com. 2013-07-08. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
  8. ^ "Capital gets TV - Service opened by Tengku". The Straits Times (retrieved from NLB). 29 December 1963. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  9. ^ Willis, John; Hodges, Ben (2004). Theatre World. New York: Applause. p. 234. ISBN 1-55783-625-6.
  10. ^ TV Guide. "Glory Days Cast and Details". TV Guide. Retrieved 2013-02-11.