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The year 1958 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1958.

Events

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  • January 1 – Suomen Televisio, later known as Yle TV1, begins regular broadcasting.[1]
  • January 28 – Short-lived station KTRX signs on the air in Kennewick, Washington.
  • January 14 – Television Wales and the West (TWW), the first ITV franchise for South Wales and West of England, begins broadcasting.
  • January 17 – TV Peru, the first television channel in Peru, begins operations.[2]
  • January 25 – Royal Thai Channel 5, officially launched in Bangkok, Thailand.[3]
  • February 17 – Pope Pius XII designates St. Clare of Assisi the patron saint of television. Thereafter, placing her icon on a television set was said to improve reception.[1]
  • April 19 – Chronicle Broadcasting Network, the predecessor of ABS-CBN Corporation in the Philippines, launches DZXL-TV Channel 9.
  • April 30 – Moldova TV signs on the air at 19:00, making it the very first television network in Moldova.
  • May 2 – CCTV-1 began on an experimental basis as Peking Television.
  • July 1 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) links television broadcasting across Canada. The CBC's microwave network between Nova Scotia and British Columbia, completed this year, makes it the longest in the world.
  • July 3 – The "Telecopter", a Bell Model 47 rented by television station KTLA in Los Angeles, and outfitted with a television camera, makes the world's first flight by a television news helicopter. Following a technical failure, it makes its first successful news flight the following day.[4]
  • August 23 – Television Belgrade, as predecessor for RTS1, a first regular television broadcasting station officially service start in Serbia, former part of Yugoslavia.[5]
  • August 30 – Southern Television, the ITV franchise for South Central and South East England, begins broadcasting.
  • September 16 – Orson Welles's The Fountain of Youth is broadcast on NBC-TV's Colgate Theatre.[6]: 424–425  Filmed in 1956 for a proposed Desilu series, the half-hour program airs only once and becomes the only unsold pilot ever to win a Peabody Award.[7][8]: 307 
  • Fall – The quiz show scandals resulted in the cancellation of the original big-money game show, CBS' "The $64,000 Question", and creating havoc within the US television industry.
  • October 1 – Shanghai Television, as early television station launched in China, first regular service to start.[9]
  • October 3 – Television Iran, as predecessor of IRIB TV1, a first regular program service television broadcasting station launched in Iran.[citation needed]
  • October 17 – Fred Astaire makes his TV starring debut in the NBC special, An Evening with Fred Astaire, which later won nine Emmy Awards and is one of the first TV specials to be preserved on videotape.
  • September 20 – Radio Valencia Televisión signs on the air in Venezuela with test transmissions began on April 30.
  • November 30 – During the live broadcast of the Armchair Theatre play Underground on the ITV network in the UK, actor Gareth Jones suffers a fatal heart attack between two of his scenes while in make-up.
  • December 15 – Channel 4, the flagship station of América Televisión, as well as the first every privately owned television station in Peru, begins officially regular broadcasting service first to viewers in Lima.[10]
  • SF DRS, the German-language Swiss television channel, debuts.
  • Ampex demonstrates their design for a color video tape recorder.
  • In the United Kingdom, the top-rated show of the year is the ITV game show Dotto, adapted from an American game show which in turn was based on children's Connect the dots game.
  • The original American version of "Dotto" was the first game show to be implicated in the quiz show scandals, and was cancelled in August.
  • Top-rated prime-time game show Twenty-One is cancelled by NBC in October after former contestant Herb Stempel charged that the series was rigged and that he had been ordered to lose a match to the popular Charles Van Doren.
  • DuMont company sells its television manufacturing assets to Emerson company. The quality decreases.

Programs/programmes

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Debuts

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Ending this year

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Date Show Debut
March 30 Sally 1957
April 14 Love That Jill 1958
April 28 Adventures of Superman 1952
May 16 Dick and the Duchess 1957[12]
May 31 The Polly Bergen Show 1957
June 7 The Life of Riley 1953
June 13 The Patrice Munsel Show 1957[13]
June 24 Educated Evans 1957
June 26 Climax! 1954
July 8 Mr. Adams and Eve 1957
September 6 Club Oasis
September 15 The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show 1950
September 25 Sergeant Preston of the Yukon 1955
October 1 Kraft Television Theater 1947
Unknown The Jeannie Carson Show 1956

Births

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Date Name Notability
January 1 Renn Woods Actress (Roots)
January 4 Matt Frewer Actor (Max Headroom, The Pink Panther)
January 12 Christiane Amanpour Host
January 17 Deran Sarafian Actor
January 20 Lorenzo Lamas Actor (Falcon Crest)
January 26 Ellen DeGeneres Actress & talk show host (Ellen)
January 27 Susanna Thompson Actress (Once and Again)
January 29 Judy Norton Taylor Actress (The Waltons)
January 30 Brett Butler Actress (Grace Under Fire)
February 2 Douglas McGrath Actor (died 2022)
February 13 Donal Gibson Actor
February 16 Lisa Loring Actress (The Addams Family)
Ice-T Actor & rapper (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
February 19 Leslie David Baker Actor (The Office)
February 21 Jack Coleman Actor (Dynasty, Heroes)
Kim Coates Actor
Denise Dowse Actress (Beverly Hills, 90210, The Guardian, Charmed)
February 23 Norm Spencer Actor (X-Men: The Animated Series, Rescue Heroes) (died 2020)
February 24 Todd Fisher Actor
Margaret Larson Presenter
February 25 Mark Moses Actor (Desperate Housewives, Mad Men)
February 26 Greg Germann Actor (Ally McBeal)
March 3 Miranda Richardson Actress
March 4 Patricia Heaton Actress (Everybody Loves Raymond, The Middle)
March 10 Sharon Stone Actress
Mary Murphy Choreographer
March 15 Deb Lacusta Actress
March 17 Christian Clemenson Actor (CSI: Miami, Boston Legal)
March 19 Fred Stoller Actor & comedian (Everybody Loves Raymond)
March 20 Holly Hunter Actress (The Incredibles)
March 21 Gary Oldman Actor & filmmaker
Brad Hall Actor (Saturday Night Live, The Single Guy, Watching Ellie)
Sabrina Le Beauf Actress (The Cosby Show)
March 22 Laurie David American environmental activist
March 25 James McDaniel Actor (NYPD Blue)
March 27 Michael O'Leary Actor & screenwriter (Guiding Light)
March 30 Maurice LaMarche Voice actor (The Brain on Animaniacs)
April 2 Amelia Marshall Soap opera actress
Jon Klein CNN former president
April 3 Alec Baldwin Actor (30 Rock)
April 4 Constance Shulman Actress (Doug, Orange is the New Black)
April 14 John D'Aquino Actor (seaQuest DSV, Cory in the House)
April 21 Andie MacDowell Actress
April 26 Giancarlo Esposito Actor
Tommy Habeeb American television host
April 29 Eve Plumb Actress (The Brady Bunch)
Michelle Pfeiffer Actress
Rosanna Scotto American news anchor
May 1 Nick Stellino Chef, author and TV presenter
May 10 Rick Santorum Politician and commentator[14] (CNN, Newsmax TV)
May 20 Matt McCoy Actor
May 21 Tim Hill Actor
May 23 Drew Carey Actor, comedian, game show host (The Price Is Right)
Lea DeLaria Actress, comedian
May 26 Margaret Colin Actress (As the World Turns, Gossip Girl)
May 27 Linnea Quigley Actress
May 29 Karen Maruyama Actress
May 30 Ted McGinley Actor (Married... with Children, Hope & Faith)
May 31 Roma Maffia Actress (Profiler)
June 5 Beth Hall Actress
June 7 Prince Singer and actor (died 2016)
June 12 Rebecca Holden Actress & singer
June 21 Eric Douglas Actor
June 22 Bruce Campbell Actor (Burn Notice) & director
June 27 Robert Newman Actor
July 3 Rick Sanchez Journalist
July 4 Steve Hartman Sportcaster
July 5 Peter Tolan Writer
July 6 Jennifer Saunders Actress & comedian (Absolutely Fabulous)
July 8 Kevin Bacon Actor
July 11 John Tinker Writer
July 14 Joe Keenan Writer
Gail Mancuso American film and television director
July 20 Billy Mays American television direct-response advertisement salesperson (died 2009)
July 23 Keenan Ivory Wayans Actor & comedian (In Living Color)
July 24 Joe Keenan Writer
July 27 Vincenzo Nicoli Actor (Hank Zipzer)
July 28 Michael Hitchcock Actor
Isaac Florentine Israeli film director
July 30 Richard Burgi Actor (The Sentinel, Desperate Housewives)
July 31 Mark Cuban Television personality, and NBA basketball team owner
August 1 Michael Penn Composer
August 6 Ira Angustain Actor (The White Shadow)
August 8 Deborah Norville TV presenter (Today, Inside Edition)
August 9 Amanda Bearse Actress (Married... with Children)
August 10 John Goldwyn American film producer
August 13 David Feherty Golfer
August 15 Rondell Sheridan Actor (That's So Raven)
August 16 Angela Bassett Actress
Madonna Singer & actress
Jonathan Prince Actor
August 18 Madeleine Stowe Actress (Revenge)
Steven Zirnkilton American voice actor
Reg E. Cathey American actor (died 2018)
August 22 Colm Feore American-Canadian actor (24, House of Cards)
August 24 Steve Guttenberg Actor
August 25 Christian LeBlanc Actor (The Young and the Restless)
August 29 Lenny Henry English actor and comedian (Chef!)
Michael Jackson Singer and actor (died 2009)
September 3 Kevin Kiner Composer
September 4 Drew Pinsky American media personality
September 6 Jeff Foxworthy American actor
September 11 Roxann Dawson Actress (Star Trek: Voyager)
Julia Nickson Actress
Scott Patterson Actor (Gilmore Girls)
September 12 Kim Fupz Aakeson Writer
September 14 Terry Dubrow American plastic surgeon and television personality
September 16 Jennifer Tilly Actress
September 19 Kevin Hooks Actor & director (The White Shadow)
September 21 Penny Smith TV presenter
Jennifer Caron Hall Actress
September 22 Kevin Sorbo Actor (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys)
September 26 Dan Foster Talent show judge (Idols, Nigeria's Got Talent) (died 2020)[15]
September 27 Shaun Cassidy Actor
September 29 Karen Young Actress
October 1 Clyde Phillips Writer
October 5 Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist
October 9 Michael Paré Actor
October 16 Tim Robbins Actor
October 19 Michael Steele Political commentator[16] (MSNBC)
October 20 Scott Hall American pro wrestler (ECW, TNA, NJPW, WCW, WWE) (died 2022)
Eric Scott Actor (The Waltons)
October 22 Michael Price Writer
October 23 Jonathan Wolff American composer
Viggo Mortensen American actor
October 27 Nina Easton American author, journalist, TV commentator, entrepreneur, and film producer
October 31 Debbie McGee English television, radio and stage performer
November 1 Rachel Ticotin Actress (Ohara, Skin, Law & Order: LA)
Stephen Hopkins Director
November 5 Robert Patrick Actor (The X-Files, Scorpion)
November 7 Jon Scott American television news anchor
November 9 Reid Harrison Writer
November 11 Donna Wilkes Actress
November 12 Megan Mullally Actress & singer (Will & Grace, Bob's Burgers)
November 16 Marg Helgenberger Actress (Ryan's Hope, China Beach, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
Julie Johnson Actress
November 17 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Actress
November 18 Oscar Nunez Cuban-American actor (The Office)
November 19 Terrence C. Carson Singer and actor (Living Single, Star Wars: The Clone Wars)
November 22 Jamie Lee Curtis Actress (Anything But Love)
Mark Malone American football quarterback
November 24 Alain Chabat Actor
November 25 Dana Tyler News anchor
November 29 Devon Scott Actress
December 1 Charlene Tilton Actress (Dallas)
December 7 Edd Hall US announcer
December 10 John J. York US soap actor
December 11 Isabella Hofmann Actress
December 12 Sheree J. Wilson Actress (Dallas, Walker, Texas Ranger)
December 13 Clark Brandon Actor (The Fitzpatricks, Mr. Merlin)
December 25 Cheryl Chase Voice actress (Angelica Pickles on Rugrats)
December 27 Barbara Crampton Actress (Days of Our Lives)
December 31 Bebe Neuwirth Actress, singer and dancer (Cheers, Frasier)
Johnny Hardwick Voice actor (King of the Hill) (died 2023)

Television debuts

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References

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  1. ^ Yle TV1#History Retrieved January 13, 2017.
  2. ^ TV Perú#Story Retrieved January 13, 2017.
  3. ^ Royal Thai Army Radio and Television Channel 5#History Retrieved January 13, 2017.
  4. ^ Pool, Bob, "Obituary: John D. Silva, 92; TV Engineer Devised the World's First News Helicopter," The Washington Post, December 11, 2012, p. B6.
  5. ^ sr:РТС 1#Историјат (Serbian language) Retrieved date on October 3, 2017.
  6. ^ Welles, Orson, and Peter Bogdanovich, edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum, This is Orson Welles. New York: HarperCollins Publishers 1992 ISBN 0-06-016616-9
  7. ^ Adams, Val, "Peabody Awards for 1958 Listed". The New York Times, April 8, 1959.
  8. ^ Arnaz, Desi. A Book. New York: William Morrow, 1976. ISBN 0688003427
  9. ^ zh:上海电视台#历史 (Chinese language) Retrieved January 14, 2017.
  10. ^ América Televisión Retrieved January 7, 2017.
  11. ^ "Oldest TV Anime's Color Screenshots Posted". Anime News Network. June 19, 2013. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  12. ^ McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television: the Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p. 216. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
  13. ^ Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle F. (June 24, 2009). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present. Random House Publishing Group. p. 1060. ISBN 978-0-307-48320-1. Retrieved September 11, 2023.
  14. ^ "Rick Santorum Fast Facts | CNN Politics". CNN. 2013-05-13. Retrieved 2024-06-16.
  15. ^ Leland, John (2020-06-24). "Dan Foster, the American-Born 'Big Dawg' of Nigerian Radio, Dies at 61". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
  16. ^ Burton, Danielle. "10 Things You Didn't Know About Michael Steele". U.S. News & World Report. Archived from the original on February 2, 2009. Retrieved July 4, 2024.
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