May – About Anglia launches as a twice-weekly programme accompanying the 10-minute regional evening news bulletin in East Anglia on weekdays. Its success prompts it to be extended to four nights a week the following September and then to every weeknight.[4]
June
1 June – ITV and the BBC both show the Epsom Derby because it is a protected event which cannot be exclusive to either channel. However, the rest of the Epsom events, including The Oaks, are broadcast exclusively on ITV.
20 June – Nan Winton becomes the first national female newsreader on the BBC Television Service.
13 July – The Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting is established to consider the future of broadcasting, cable and "the possibility of television for public showing". Their report, published in 1962, criticises the populism of ITV and recommends that Britain's third national television channel (after the BBC Television Service and ITV) should be awarded to the BBC. BBC Two is launched in April 1964.
August
No events.
September
10 September – ITV broadcasts the first live Football League match to be shown on television and the last for 23 years.[6] The commentators are Peter Lloyd and Billy Wright