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This is a list of television-related events in 1956. ... // May 2 - Fireside chat: On the Coal Crisis July 28 - Fireside chat: On Progress of War and Plans for Peace September 8 - Fireside chat: Opening Third War Loan Drive December 24 - Fireside chat: On Tehran and Cairo Conferences January 10 - The Better Half, a quiz show, debuts on Mutual. ... // January 11 - Fireside chat: State of the Union Message to Congress June 5 - Fireside chat: On the Fall of Rome June 12 - Fireside chat: Opening Fifth War Loan Drive (last fireside chat) January 25 - The black maid character Beulah, played by Marlin Hunt, debuts on Fibber McGee and Molly. ... // March 15 - The Academy Awards are broadcast on the radio in their entirety for the first time. ... // January 21 - The Fat Man debuts on ABC. February 2 - Twenty Questions debuts on Mutual. ... 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Events

• February 4 – RCA demonstrates an all-electronic color television system.
• February 18 - The first Washington, DC - New York City telecast through AT&T coaxial cable, in which General Dwight Eisenhower placed a wreath at the base of the statue in the Lincoln Memorial and others made brief speeches, is termed a success by engineers and viewers, although Time magazine calls it "as blurred as an early Chaplin movie."
• February 25 - The prewar U.S. 18-channel VHF allocation is officially dropped in favor of a new 13-channel VHF allocation due to the appropriation of some frequencies by the military and the relocation of FM radio. Only five of the old channels are the same as new channels in frequency and none have the same number as before.
• April 22 - CBS transmits a Technicolor movie short and color slides over coaxial cable from Manhattan to Washington (225 miles) and return.
• June 7 - The BBC Television Service begins broadcasting again. The first words heard are "Good afternoon everybody. How are you? Do you remember me, Jasmine Bligh?". Twenty minutes later, the Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Gala Premiere that had been the last programme transmitted seven years earlier at the start of World War II, is reshown.
• June 19 - The first televised heavyweight boxing title fight between Joe Louis and Billy Conn is broadcast from Yankee Stadium. The fight was seen by 141,000 people, the largest television audience to see a fight to that date.
• July 7 - The BBC's children's programme For The Children returns, one of the few pre-war programmes to resume after the reintroduction of the service.
• August 4 - Children's puppet "Muffin the Mule" debuts in an episode of For The Children. He is so popular he is given his own show later in the year.
• October 2 - The first television network soap opera, Faraway Hill, airs on the DuMont Network.
• October 22 - Telecrime, the first television crime series from the 1930s, returns for the final run on the BBC, retitled Telecrimes.
• December 24 - The first church service is telecast, Grace Episcopal Church in New York, on WABD.
• Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo founded, which would later become Sony.
• Zoomar introduces the first professional zoom lens for television cameras.
• In the United States, only the DuMont Network and NBC were broadcasting in the evening in 1946. DuMont ran a Western movie on Sunday night for an hour, other programming for an hour on Tuesday, and half hours on Wednesday and Thursday nights. NBC ran an hour of programming on Sunday, two hours on Thursday, and the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports on Monday and Friday nights, with an additional hour on Fridays.
• The First Post War Television Sets Relesed by Rca,Dumont,Crosley,and Belmont

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Debuts

• May 9 - The first regularly scheduled American variety show, Hour Glass, premieres on NBC (1946–1947).
• November 2 - Kaleidoscope (UK) (1946–1953).
• November 29 - Pinwright's Progress (UK), British television's first sitcom, debuts on the BBC Television Service (1946–1947).
• Gilette Cavalcade of Sports (1946–1960).
• Cash and Carry premieres on the DuMont network (1946–1947).
• Campus Hoopla premieres (1946–1947).
• Face to Face premieres on NBC (1946–1947).
• I Love to Eat premieres on NBC (1946–1947).
• Let's Rhumba premieres on NBC (1946–1947).
• Serving Through Science premieres on DuMont (1946–1947).
• Paging You premieres (1946–1948).
• Television Screen Magazine premieres on NBC (1946–1949).
• You Are an Artist premieres on NBC (1946–1950).
• Muffin the Mule (UK) premieres (1946–1955).
• Faraway Hill, the first network-televised soap opera, debuts on DuMont.

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Television shows

listed by starting year

• The Voice of Firestone Televues (1943–1947).
• Missui Goes A-Shopping (1944–1949).
• The World In Your Home (1944–1948).
• Picture Page (UK) (1936–1939; 1946–1952).
• Starlight (UK) (1936–1939; 1946-1949).
• For The Children (UK) (1937–1939; 1946–1950).

The Voice of Firestone was a weekly broadcast of the best in classical music, as performed by the nations most popular composers. ... Picture Page was a British television programme, broadcast on the BBC Television Service (now known as BBC One) from 1936 to 1939, and again after the services hiatus during the Second World War from 1946 until 1952. ... Starlight was an early British television programme, one of the first regular series to be shown on the BBC Television Service in the 1930s. ...

Ending this year

• November 25 - Telecrime (UK) (1938–1939; 1946).

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Births

• January 20 - David Lynch, film director.
• April 5 - Jane Asher, actress.
• April 12 - Ed O'Neill, actor (Married... with Children, The West Wing).
• May 1 - Joanna Lumley, actress.
• June 28 - Gilda Radner, actress, comedian, Saturday Night Live (d. 1989).
• September 25 - Felicity Kendal, actress.
• October 24 - Gwyneth Powell, actress.
• October 30 - Lynne Marta, actress.
• November 21 - Pam Freeman, actress.
• November 15 - Gwyneth Powell, actress
• November 21 - Jacky Lafon, actress.
• November 28 - Regina Braga, actress.
• December 3 - Marjana Lipovsek, opera singer and actress.
• December 6 - Chelsea Brown, actress.
• December 20 - Lesley Judd, television presenter.