1957 in Television - Events

Events

  • January 6 – Elvis Presley makes his final appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
  • January 24 – Steve Allen makes his final appearance as host of NBC's The Tonight Show. He is replaced by Jack Lescoulie and the show is changed from a talk/variety show format to be more like Today.
  • June – Lescoulie is a flop, so NBC hires Al "Jazzbo" Collins as emcee. Collins doesn't last long; NBC is already planning to replace him and go back to the original format.
  • July 29 – Jack Paar becomes the permanent host for NBC's The Tonight Show. The format changes back to a talk/variety show.
  • March 7 – Portugal creates its television service after several months of experimentation.
  • March 31 – The first TV version of Cinderella, starring 21-year-old Julie Andrews, and with songs by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, airs in color on CBS.
  • April 1 – British current affairs programme Panorama (BBC) broadcasts the famous Spaghetti tree hoax report.
  • August 31 – Central Scotland's ITV franchise Scottish Television goes on air, the first 7-day-a-week ITV franchise to do so.
  • September 7 – NBC introduces an animated version of its famous "living color" peacock logo.
  • February 16 – In the UK, the "Toddlers' Truce" (an arrangement whereby there were no TV broadcasts between 6 PM and 7 PM, to allow parents to put their children to bed) was abolished. It had been a major stumbling block to the success of ITV.
  • Front Page Challenge, television's longest continuously running panel show starts airing on the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). It ran for 38 years.
  • Cyprus began a limited television service, serving only three hours a day, twice-weekly. By 1960, a full service was launched.
  • CBC Television begins nationwide broadcasting of NHL games as Canada's microwave network is completed coast-to-coast. Prior to this, broadcasts had been delayed.
  • Westinghouse introduces the first rectangular tube color TV. Due to issues with convergence (aligning the guns to get a single image), the sets were withdrawn from the market. The first successful rectangular color tubes arrive in the mid-1960s.

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