3 April – The BBC aspect ratio changes from 5:4 to 4:3.
May
21 May – The BBC Television Service's Lime Grove Studios in London are opened officially by Violet Attlee, the Prime Minister's wife. These were purchased from Gaumont-British last year as a temporary measure until Television Centre is available.
June
9 June – For the Children launches the BBC's dedicated children's programming from its Lime Grove Studios.[2]
27 August – The first ever live television pictures from across the English Channel are transmitted by the BBC Television Service. The two-hour programme, Calais en fête, is broadcast live from Calais in northern France to mark the centenary of the first message sent by submarine telegraph cable from England to France.[3]
September
8 September–27 October — No issues of Radio Times are published, due to a printing dispute.
8 September – The first outside broadcast of snooker takes place, at Leicester Square Hall. The balls are numbered with their values.[4]
30 September – First BBC Television Service broadcast from an aircraft.
20 December – Poet T. S. Eliot expresses concerns about "the television habit" in a letter to The Times (London).
23 December – Gala Variety with Tommy Cooper becomes the first programme of its type to be broadcast by the BBC from its Lime Grove Studios.[6]
Undated
A cable network is launched in Gloucester, to provide better television reception than is possible at this time via a rooftop aerial.[7]
The first film made specifically for British television, A Dinner Date With Death, shot in 1949,[8] is premiered, giving rise to an anthology series, "The Man Who Walks by Night".[9]
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