Editing 1929 in television

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The year '''1929 in television''' involved some significant events.
Below is a list of [[television]]-related events during 1929.

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==Global television events==
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| June || 27 || [[Herbert Ives]] and his colleagues at [[Bell Labs|Bell Telephone Laboratories]] in New York City demonstrate color mechanical television (this was first achieved by [[John Logie Baird]] the previous year). The 50-line color images are of a bouquet of roses and an [[Flag of the United States|American flag]]. The images are transmitted between New York and Washington, D.C.
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|rowspan="2"| August 
| 20 || First transmissions of Baird's 30-line television system by the [[BBC]] in London.<ref>{{cite book |title= The Hutchinson Factfinder |publisher= Helicon |year= 1999 |isbn= 1-85986-000-1 }}</ref>
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| 25 || [[Westinghouse Electric Corporation (1886)|Westinghouse]] station [[KDKA (AM)|KDKA]] in [[Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania, begins broadcasting movies on a daily basis, 60 lines per picture, 16 pictures per second.
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==Births==
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| January 11 || [[Nicoletta Orsomando]] || Italy's first TV continuity announcer (died 2021) 
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| January 20 || [[Arte Johnson]] || U.S. comic actor (''[[Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In]]'') (died 2019)
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| February 4 || [[Jerry Adler]] || U.S. actor
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| February 22 || [[Rebecca Schull]] || U.S. actress (''[[Wings (1990 TV series)|Wings]]'')
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| March 5 || [[Raymond Allen (television actor)|Raymond Allen]] || U.S. actor (''[[Sanford and Son]]'') (died 2020)
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| April 3 || [[Lee Leonard]] || U.S. television personality (died 2018)
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| April 10 || [[Liz Sheridan]] || U.S. actress (died 2022)
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| June 3 || [[Chuck Barris]] || U.S. game show host (''[[The Dating Game]]'') (died 2017)
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| June 23 || [[June Carter Cash]] || U.S. singer and actress (''[[The Johnny Cash Show]]'') (died 2003)
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| July 5 || [[Katherine Helmond]] || U.S. actress (''[[Soap (TV series)|Soap]]'', ''[[Who's the Boss?]]'') (died 2019)
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|July 28 || [[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis|Jacqueline Kennedy]] || 35th [[First Lady of the United States]] (died 1994)<ref>{{Cite news |last=McFadden |first=Robert D. |date=1994-05-20 |title=DEATH OF A FIRST LADY; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Dies of Cancer at 64 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/20/obituaries/death-of-a-first-lady-jacqueline-kennedy-onassis-dies-of-cancer-at-64.html |access-date=2024-09-01 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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| July 31 || [[Don Murray (actor)|Don Murray]] || U.S. actor (''[[The Outcasts (American TV series)|The Outcasts]]'', ''[[Knots Landing]]'') (died 2024)
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| August 17 || [[Julianna McCarthy]] || U.S. actress (''[[The Young and the Restless]]'')
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| September 5 || [[Bob Newhart]] ||  U.S. comedian and actor (''[[The Bob Newhart Show]]'', ''[[Newhart]]'') (died 2024)
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| rowspan="2" | September 25 || [[Ronnie Barker]] || British comedian, half of ''[[The Two Ronnies]]'' (died 2005)
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|[[Barbara Walters]]
|U.S. journalist and TV personality (died 2022)
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| October 16 || [[Nicholas von Hoffman]] || American journalist (died 2018)
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| October 23 || [[Merv Adelson]] || American producer (died 2015)
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| November 2 || [[Rachel Ames]] || U.S. actress (''[[General Hospital]]'')
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| November 15 || [[Ed Asner]] || U.S. actor (''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'', ''[[Lou Grant (TV series)|Lou Grant]]'') (died 2021)
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| November 20 || [[Jerry Hardin]] || U.S. actor (''[[The X-Files]]'') 
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| November 25 || [[Jack Hogan]] || U.S. actor (''[[Combat! (TV series)|Combat!]]'') (died 2023)
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| November 27 || [[Alan Simpson (scriptwriter)|Alan Simpson]] || British comedy scriptwriter (died 2017)
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| November 28 || [[Berry Gordy]] || U.S. producer
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| November 29 || [[Claus Toksvig]] || Danish foreign correspondent
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| rowspan="2"| November 30 || [[Dick Clark]] || U.S. TV host (''[[American Bandstand]]'') (died 2012)
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| [[Joan Ganz Cooney]] || U.S. producer (''[[Sesame Street]]'')
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| rowspan="2"| December 31 || [[Mies Bouwman]] || Dutch television presenter (died 2018)
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| [[David Nixon (magician)|David Nixon]] || British [[Magic (illusion)|magic]]ian and television personality (died 1978)
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==References==
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