1943 in television

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The year 1943 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1943.

Events

• May 8 – Opening of Paris Télévision – Fernsehsender Paris, a channel operated by German occupation authorities (Kurt Hinzmann, former director of Fernsehsender "Paul Nipkow") after an agreement between Telefunken and Compagnie des Compteurs, with a (German) 441-line standard. Local French programmes and Fernsehsender "Paul Nipkow“ programmes were interlaced.
• June – Work is begun for the U.S. Army Air Forces to develop a remotely controlled glide bomb guided by a radio receiver and a television transmitter using a 625-line iconoscope tube. The first are completed in July and tested in August.
• December 23 – The first complete opera, Hansel and Gretel, is telecast, by WRGB in Schenectady.
• The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is formed. Its television network debuts in 1948.
• Germany experiments with a flying bomb guided by a television camera, created by Fernseh, using both the Superikonoscope and the Farnsworth image dissector.

Debuts

• The Voice of Firestone Televues (1943–1947; renamed The Voice of Firestone, broadcast from 1949 to 1963).

Television shows

Series	Debut	Ended
Thrills and Chills Everywere	August 27, 1941	1946?
The Face of the War	September 12, 1941	1945
The Voice of Firestone Televues	1943	1947
	1949	1963

Births

• January 1 – Don Novello, actor, Saturday Night Live.
• January 13 – Richard Moll, actor, Night Court.
• January 23 – Gil Gerard, actor.
• January 24 – Sharon Tate, actress, model (d. 1969)
• January 28 – John Beck, actor.
• February 17 – Claire Malis, American actress (d. 2012)
• February 27 – Mary Frann, actress (d. 1998).
• March 18 – Kevin Dobson, actor.
• March 29 – Eric Idle, actor, comedian.
• May 24 – Gary Burghoff, actor.
• May 27 – Bruce Weitz, actor.
• May 31 – Sharon Gless, actress.
• June 7
  • Ken Osmond, American actor and police officer
  • Michael Pennington, English actor and director
• June 16 – Joan Van Ark, actress.
• July 3 – Kurtwood Smith, actor.
• July 31 – Susan Flannery, actress.
• August 2 – Max Wright, actor.
• October 8 – Chevy Chase, actor, comedian, Saturday Night Live.
• October 27 – Carmen Argenziano, actor, Stargate SG-1.
• November 20 – Veronica Hamel, actress.
• December 23 – Harry Shearer, actor, Saturday Night Live, This Is Spinal Tap, The Simpsons.
• December 28 – Richard Whiteley, presenter (d. 2005).

Deaths

• January 7 - Nikola Tesla, inventor of the Tesla coil (born 1856)