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1962–63 United States network television schedule |
1963–64 United States network television schedule |
List of American television programs currently in production |
This is a list of American television-related events in 1963.
Date | Event | Ref. |
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May 15 | NBC carries the first transmission from "Faith 7", a U.S. manned space capsule. It was broadcast on tape delay due to poor picture quality. | |
September 2 | The CBS Evening News becomes the first half-hour weeknight news broadcast in American network television when the show was lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes. NBC's evening news program, The Huntley-Brinkley Report, follows suit one week later. | |
October 1 | ABC News begins to rely on its own camera crews, after depending on outside sources for news film. | |
November 22 | Regular programming of all three major U.S. networks start pre-emptions following the news of John F. Kennedy's assassination. The most notable preserved recording of the wall-to-wall news coverage of the assassination was that of CBS, when CBS News interrupts that day's episode of As the World Turns. Through the facilities of the Relay 1 satellite, the news bulletins about the assassination, as well as the funeral procession later that week, were the first television broadcasts across the Pacific Ocean. | |
December 7 | Instant Replay, the brainchild of CBS Sports director Tony Verna makes its debut during CBS's live broadcast of the Army-Navy Game. Following a series of improvements, instant replay goes on to become a vital part of televised sports coverage around the world. It is often credited as a primary factor in the rise of televised American football. |
Date | Show | Network | Debut | Notes |
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January 25 | Don't Call Me Charlie! | NBC | September 21, 1962 | |
March 25 | The Jetsons | ABC | September 23, 1962 | Returned in 1985. |
April 2 | Hawaiian Eye | October 1959 | ||
April 14 | Car 54, Where Are You? | NBC | September 1961 | |
May 5 | Ensign O'Toole | September 23, 1962 | ||
May 14 | Empire | September 25, 1962 | ||
May 21 | Laramie | September 15, 1959 | ||
The Voice of Firestone | September 1949 | |||
June 5 | The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis | CBS | September 29, 1959 | |
June 20 | Leave It to Beaver | ABC | October 4, 1957 | Returned in 1983. |
June 23 | The Real McCoys | CBS | October 3, 1957 | |
August 26 | Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har | Syndication | September 3, 1962 | |
Touché Turtle and Dum Dum | ||||
August 30 | Wally Gator | |||
September 28 | The Shari Lewis Show | NBC | October 1, 1960 | Returned in 1968. |
Date | City of license/Market | Station | Channel | Old affiliation | New affiliation | Notes/Ref. |
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August 1 | Davenport, Iowa (Moline-Rock Island, IL/Bettendorf, Iowa) |
WOC-TV | 6 | NBC (primary) ABC (secondary) |
NBC (exclusive) |
Date | City of license/Market | Station | Channel | Affiliation | Sign-on date | Notes |
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April 17 | Hot Springs, Arkansas | KFOY-TV | 9 | NBC | February 1, 1961 | |
May 16 | Charlotte, North Carolina | WUTV | 36 | ABC (primary) NBC/CBS (secondary) |
September 5, 1961 | |
June | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | WPCA-TV | 17 | Independent | July 10, 1960 (first incarnation) January 31, 1963 (second incarnation) |
Financial distress; returned in 1965 as WPHL-TV |
June 10 | Ann Arbor, Michigan | WJMY | 20 | Independent | October 7, 1962 | |
July 15 | Flagstaff, Arizona | KVLS | 13 | Independent | December 18, 1961 |
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