List of years in television

(table)

In radio: 1927; 1928; 1929; 1930; 1931; 1932; 1933

In film: 1927; 1928; 1929; 1930; 1931; 1932; 1933

In music: 1927; 1928; 1929; 1930; 1931; 1932; 1933

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The year 1930 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1930.

Global television events

May 22 – An audience at Proctor's Theatre in Schenectady, New York becomes the first to see a closed-circuit television signal projected onto a big screen.
July 14 – For the first time in the United Kingdom, a television drama is broadcast. The drama is a production of Luigi Pirandello's The Man With the Flower in His Mouth; it is broadcast by the BBC from Baird's studios at 133 Long Acre, London.^[1]
November 5 – Baird television transmissions at Hairdressing Fair of Fashion include the world's first television commercial for the Eugène Method of permanent hair waving.
December 7 – W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts the first television commercial in the United States, of I.J Fox Furriers during The Fox Trappers.

Births

January 1 - Ty Hardin, U.S. actor (Bronco) (died 2017)
January 3 - Robert Loggia, U.S. actor (died 2015)
January 4
- Sorrell Booke, U.S. actor (The Dukes of Hazzard) (died 1994)
- Rosemary Prinz, U.S. actress (As the World Turns)
January 6 - Vic Tayback, U.S. actor (Alice) (died 1990)
January 15 - Edwin Sherin, U.S. director (died 2017)
January 19 - Tippi Hedren, U.S. actress
January 30 - Don Brockett, U.S. actor (died 1995)
February 8 - Alejandro Rey, Argentinian-born actor (The Flying Nun) (died 1987)
February 10 - Robert Wagner, U.S. actor (It Takes a Thief, Switch, Hart to Hart)
February 27 - Joanne Woodward, U.S. actress
March 22
- Pat Robertson, televangelist (died 2023)
- Stephen Sondheim, U.S. composer (died 2021)
March 30 - John Astin, U.S. actor (The Addams Family)
April 5 - Mary Costa, actress
April 7 - Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor (Fawlty Towers) (died 2016)
April 18 - Clive Revill, actor
April 19 - Dick Sargent, U.S. actor (Bewitched) (died 1994)
April 23 - Alan Oppenheimer, U.S. actor
April 25 - Lynn Hamilton, U.S. actress (Sanford and Son)
April 28 - Carolyn Jones, U.S. actress (The Addams Family) (died 1983)
May 10 - Pat Summerall, American football player and sportscaster (died 2013)
May 17 - Frank Price, U.S. TV and film executive
May 20 - Betty DeGeneres, American LGBT rights activist
May 31 - Clint Eastwood, U.S. director and actor (Rawhide)
June 12 - Jim Nabors, U.S. actor, singer (The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.) (died 2017)
June 19 - Gena Rowlands, U.S. actress
June 25 - George Murdock, actor (died 2012)
June 28 - Horacio Gómez Bolaños, Mexican actor (died 1999)
June 29 - Robert Evans, Actor (died 2019)
July 14 - Polly Bergen, U.S. actress (died 2014)
July 17 - Ray Galton, British writer (died 2018)
July 30 - Tony Lip, actor (died 2013)
August 11 - Paul Soles, actor (died 2021)
August 16
- Frank Gifford, American football player and sportscaster (died 2015)
- Robert Culp, U.S. actor (I Spy) (died 2010)
August 25
- Graham Jarvis, U.S. actor (died 2003)
- Sean Connery, Actor (died 2020)
August 28 -
- Windsor Davies, British comedy actor (It Ain't Half Hot Mum) (died 2019)
- Ben Gazzara, U.S. actor (Run for Your Life) (died 2012)
September 7 - Sonny Rollins, Saxophonist
September 11 - Cathryn Damon, U.S. actress (died 1987)
September 16 - Anne Francis, U.S. actress (Honey West) (died 2011)
September 23 - Ray Charles, U.S. singer, songwriter, pianist and composer (died 2004)
September 27 - Bill Carruthers, U.S. television executive (died 2003)
October 1 - Richard Harris, actor (died 2002)
October 6 - Lou Cutell, U.S. actor (died 2021)
October 19 - Fred Facey, U.S. radio and television announcer (died 2003)
November 3
- Larry Gelman, U.S. actor (The Bob Newhart Show)
- Lois Smith, U.S. actress
November 5 - Richard Davalos, U.S. actor (died 2016)
November 15 - Whitman Mayo, U.S. actor (Sanford and Son) (died 2001)
November 2 - Peter Hall, English director (died 2017)
December 4 - Ronnie Corbett, British comedian (died 2016)
December 9 - Buck Henry, U.S. writer, actor, director (died 2020)
December 12 - Bill Beutel, American television journalist (died 2006)
December 17 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, actor
December 21 - Phil Roman, U.S. animator
December 24 - Julian Barry, U.S. screenwriter
December 31 - Renate Hoy, U.S. actress

Deaths

February 19 - Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, Scottish electrical engineer who provided the theoretical basis for the electronic television, 66^[2]

References

^ Elen, Richard G. "TV Technology 2. Television on the Air". Screenonline. Retrieved February 7, 2007.
^ Oakes, Elizabeth (2009), A to Z of STS Scientists. Infobase publishing, pp. 51.

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