Years in Television - 1950s

1950s

• 1950: First broadcast of Broadway Open House, Your Show of Shows, Sua vida me pertence and What's My Line?; Cuba is the first Caribbean country to receive TV; Mexico is the second North American country to receive TV
• 1951: First broadcast of live United States transcontinental television takes place in San Francisco, California from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference. I Love Lucy, See It Now, Dragnet
• 1952: First broadcast of Today (NBC), Astro Boy and Flower Pot Men; Hockey Night in Canada and The Guiding Light move from radio to TV
• 1953: First broadcast of Panorama; the coronation of Elizabeth II is the first of it kind to be broadcast on television
• 1954: First broadcast of The Tonight Show and Face the Nation ; NTSC video standard for color television is introduced
• 1955: First broadcast of The Honeymooners, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Gunsmoke; ITV launches in the UK
• 1956: First broadcast of The Edge of Night, As the World Turns, Playhouse 90, the Eurovision Song Contest and Hancock's Half Hour
• 1957: First broadcast of Cinderella, Leave It to Beaver, Senda prohibida and Carosello; Brazil is the first South American country to receive TV
• 1958: First broadcast of Blue Peter, Quatermass and the Pit and Moonlight Mask; the quiz show scandals wipe out The $64,000 Question and Twenty One
• 1959: First broadcast of The Twilight Zone, Rocky and His Friends and Bonanza;