1962 in television



For the American TV schedule, see: 1962–63 United States network television schedule.

The year 1962 involved some significant events in television. Below is a list of notable events of that year.

Events

 * January 1
 * The 1962 Rose Bowl game on NBC is the first coast-to-coast color television broadcast of a college football game in the United States.
 * NBC introduces the Laramie Peacock before a midnight showing of Laramie.
 * March 24 – Boxer Benny Kid Paret falls unconscious at the hands of fellow boxer Emile Griffith during a boxing match telecast by ABC from Madison Square Garden, and officiated by Ruby Goldstein. Paret dies ten days later.
 * April 16 – Walter Cronkite succeeds Douglas Edwards as anchorman of the CBS Evening News; he will remain so for the next 19 years.
 * May 27 - General Electric Theater airs its last episode on CBS.
 * July 6 - Gay Byrne presents the first edition of The Late Late Show on RTÉ in the Republic of Ireland. Byrne goes on to present the show for 37 years, the longest period through which any individual hosts a televised talk show anywhere in the world, and the show itself becomes the world's second longest-running talk show.
 * July 23 – First publicly available live transatlantic television broadcast via Telstar 1.
 * August 24 - Indonesia begins the first television broadcast with the newly inaugurated TVRI (Televisi Republik Indonesia, the Television Channel of Indonesia). TVRI is the first national television network in Indonesia before 1989. The establishment of TVRI marked the Day of Indonesian National Television.
 * September 1 – Channel Television, the ITV franchise for the Channel Islands, goes on air.
 * September 9 - WNYS-TV (now WSYR-TV) signs-on the air, giving Syracuse, New York its first full-time ABC affiliate.
 * September 14 – Wales West and North Television (Teledu Cymru) goes on air to the North and West Wales region, extending ITV to the whole of the UK.
 * Broadcast of Sábados Alegres begins, program later becomes Sábados Gigantes
 * Cigarette adverts are banned from children's programmes in the UK. Actors in these adverts now have to be over 21, and connection to social success is no longer allowed. The tobacco companies also start a policy of not advertising before 9pm.
 * The U.S. All-Channel Receiver Act requires UHF tuners to be on all consumer sets (channels 14 through 83), as well as VHF.
 * Zenith markets its first color TV, a 21" round screen set.

Debuts

 * 1) The Virginian