1937 in television

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This is a list of television-related events in 1937.

Years in film:	1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940
Years in television:	1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years:	1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940

1 Events
2 Debuts
3 Television shows
4 Births

[edit] Events

January 4 Beginning of regular daily broadcasting on French TV with a 455-line standard.
February 6 - The BBC Television Service drops the Baird system in favour of the Marconi-EMI 405 lines system.
May - Gilbert Seldes becomes the first television critic, with his Atlantic Monthly article, the "Errors of Television".
March 9 Experimental broadcasting from Shabolovka Ulitsa television center, in Moscow (USSR).
May 12 - The BBC use their outside broadcast unit for the first time, to televise the coronation of King George VI. A fragment of this broadcast is one of the earliest surviving examples of British television - filmed off-screen at home by an engineer with an 8 mm cine camera, a short section of this footage was used in a programme during the week of the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, and this latter programme survives in the BBC's archives.
May 14 - The BBC broadcasts a thirty-minute excerpt of Twelfth Night, the first known instance of a Shakespeare play on television. Among the cast are Peggy Ashcroft and Greer Garson.
May 15 - RCA demonstrates projection television, with images enlarged to 8 by 10 feet, at the Institute of Radio Engineers convention.
June 21 - Wimbledon Championships (tennis) first televised by the BBC.
November 11 - The BBC broadcasts an adaptation of the World War I-set play Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff, starring Reginald Tate as Stanhope. Shown in commemoration of Armistice Day, it is the first time that a whole evening's programming has been given over to a single play.
CBS announces their efforts to develop television broadcasts.

[edit] Debuts

April 17 - The Disorderly Room (UK) premieres on the BBC Television Service (1937 & 1939).
April 24 - For The Children (UK), the BBC's first programme for young children, debuts (1937-1939; 1946-1950).
April 30 - Sports Review (UK), the first regular sports programme, debuts on the BBC (1937-1939).