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The year 1929 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1929.

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Global television events

MonthDayEvent
June27 Herbert Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City demonstrate color mechanical television (this was first achieved by John Logie Baird the previous year). The 50-line color images are of a bouquet of roses and an American flag. The images are transmitted between New York and Washington, DC.
August20First transmissions of Baird's 30-line television system by the BBC. [1]
25 Westinghouse station KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania begins broadcasting movies on a daily basis, 60 lines per picture, 16 pictures per second.

Births

DateNameNotability
January 11 Nicoletta Orsomando Italy's first TV continuity announcer (died 2021)
January 20 Arte Johnson U.S. comic actor ( Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In ) (died 2019)
February 4 Jerry Adler U.S. actor
February 22 Rebecca Schull U.S. actress ( Wings )
March 5 Raymond Allen U.S. actor ( Sanford and Son ) (died 2020)
April 3 Lee Leonard U.S. television personality (died 2018)
April 10 Liz Sheridan U.S. actress (died 2022)
June 3 Chuck Barris U.S. game show host ( The Dating Game ) (died 2017)
June 23 June Carter Cash U.S. singer and actress ( The Johnny Cash Show ) (died 2003)
July 5 Katherine Helmond U.S. actress ( Soap , Who's the Boss? ) (died 2019)
July 31 Don Murray U.S. actor ( The Outcasts , Knots Landing ) (died 2024)
August 17 Julianna McCarthy U.S. actress ( The Young and the Restless )
September 5 Bob Newhart U.S. comedian and actor ( The Bob Newhart Show , Newhart )
September 25 Ronnie Barker British comedian, half of The Two Ronnies (died 2005)
Barbara Walters U.S. journalist and TV personality (died 2022)
October 16 Nicholas von Hoffman American journalist (died 2018)
October 23 Merv Adelson American producer (died 2015)
November 2 Rachel Ames U.S. actress ( General Hospital )
November 15 Ed Asner U.S. actor ( The Mary Tyler Moore Show , Lou Grant ) (died 2021)
November 20 Jerry Hardin U.S. actor ( The X-Files )
November 25 Jack Hogan U.S. actor ( Combat! )
November 27 Alan Simpson British comedy scriptwriter (died 2017)
November 28 Berry Gordy U.S. producer
November 30 Dick Clark U.S. TV host ( American Bandstand ) (died 2012)
November 30 Joan Ganz Cooney U.S. producer ( Sesame Street )
December 31 Mies Bouwman Dutch television presenter (died 2018)
David Nixon British magician and television personality (died 1978)

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References

  1. The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN   1-85986-000-1.