1958 in British television

List of years in British television (table)

This is a list of British television related events from 1958.

Events

January

February

  • 13 February – A by-election is covered on UK television for the first time when Granada broadcasts coverage of the 1958 Rochdale by-election; broadcast presenter Ludovic Kennedy takes second place for the Liberals, considerably increasing their share of the vote.
  • 17 February – Pope Pius XII designates St. Clare of Assisi as the patron saint of television. Thereafter, placing her icon on a television set is said to improve reception.
  • 18 February – Footage of the annual Shrove Tuesday Atherstone Ball Game is shown on television for the first time.

March

  • 31 March – Debut of the BBC's serial Starr and Company, set in an engineering firm. The programme is aired for nine months.

April

  • 14 April — The newly magnetic videotape machine Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus or VERA for short, is given a live demonstration on air in Panorama where Richard Dimbleby seated by a clock, talks for a couple of minutes about the new method of vision recording with an instant playback. The tape is then wound back and replayed. The picture is slightly watery, but reasonably watchable, and instant playback is something completely new.

May

  • 5 May – First experimental transmissions of a 625-line television service.

June

  • No events.

July

  • No events.

August

September

  • No events.

October

  • 11 October – The long running Saturday afternoon sports programme Grandstand debuts on the BBC Television Service. It airs until 2007.
  • 16 October – Blue Peter, the world's longest-running children's TV programme, debuts on the BBC Television Service. It continues to air into the 2020s.
  • 28 October – The State Opening of Parliament is broadcast on television for the first time.

November

December

  • No events.

Debuts

BBC Television Service/BBC TV

ITV

Continuing television shows

1920s

  • BBC Wimbledon (1927–1939, 1946–2019, 2021–2024)

1930s

  • The Boat Race (1938–1939, 1946–2019)
  • BBC Cricket (1939, 1946–1999, 2020–2024)

1940s

1950s

Ending this year

Births

Deaths

See also


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