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.

Global television events

Month	Day	Event
June	27	Herbert Ives and his colleagues at 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 American flag. The images are transmitted between New York and Washington, DC.
August	20	First transmissions of Baird's 30-line television system by the BBC.
	25	Westinghouse station KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania begins broadcasting movies on a daily basis, 60 lines per picture, 16 pictures per second.

Births

Date	Name	Notability
January 6	Joe Hamilton	American television producer and actor (died 1991)
January 11	Nicoletta Orsomando	Italy's first TV continuity announcer
January 20	Arte Johnson	U.S. comic actor (Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In) (died 2019)
January 30	Morton Stevens	U.S. composer (died 1991)
February 10	Jerry Goldsmith	U.S. composer (died 2004)
February 22	Rebecca Schull	U.S. actress (Wings)
March 5	Raymond Allen	U.S. actor (Sanford and Son) (died 2020)
April 18	Walt Levinsky	U.S. composer (died 1999)
June 3	Chuck Barris	U.S. game show host (The Dating Game) (died 2017)
June 23	June Carter Cash	U.S. singer and actress (The Johnny Cash Show) (died 2003)
June 29	Bonnie Bartlett	U.S. actress
July 5	Robert Thom	writer (died 1979)
	Katherine Helmond	U.S. actress (Soap, Who's the Boss?) (died 2019)
August 17	Julianna McCarthy	U.S. actress (The Young and the Restless)
August 28	Roxie Roker	U.S. actress (died 1995)
September 5	Bob Newhart	U.S. comedian and actor (The Bob Newhart Show, Newhart)
September 9	Stu Phillips	U.S. composer
September 15	John Julius Norwich	TV host (died 2018)
September 20	Anne Meara	TV actress (died 2015)
September 25	Ronnie Barker	British comedian, half of The Two Ronnies (died 2005)
	Barbara Walters	American retired broadcast journalist
October 16	Nicholas von Hoffman	American journalist (died 2018)
October 23	Merv Adelson	American real estate developer
November 2	Rachel Ames	U.S. actress (General Hospital)
November 15	Ed Asner	U.S. actor (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant) (died 2021)
November 20	Jerry Hardin	U.S. actor (The X-Files)
November 25	Jack Hogan	U.S. actor (Combat!)
November 27	Alan Simpson	British comedy scriptwriter (died 2017)
November 29	Berry Gordy	television producer
November 30	Dick Clark	U.S. TV host (American Bandstand) (died 2012)
	Joan Ganz Cooney	U.S. producer (Sesame Street)
December 21	Jack Melick	Composer (died 2021)
December 31	Mies Bouwman	Dutch television presenter (died 2018)
	David Nixon	British magician and television personality (died 1978)