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- Events January – June July August September October November December
- Debuts
- Television shows 1920s 1930s 1940s
- Births
- Deaths
- See also
- References
{{Year nav topic5|1949|British television}}This is a list of British television related events from 1949. EventsJanuary – JuneJuly- July – BBC Television revives the regular televised weather forecast.[1]
AugustSeptember- 29 September – The BBC Television Service first broadcasts Come Dancing, a TV ballroom dancing competition show.
October- 26 October – How Do You View?, the first comedy series on British television, starring Terry-Thomas, is first broadcast.
NovemberDecember- 17 December – The Sutton Coldfield television transmitter is opened in the Midlands, making it the first part of the UK outside London to receive the BBC Television Service.
Debuts- 29 September – Come Dancing (1949–1998)
Television shows1920s- BBC Wimbledon (1927–1939, 1946–2024)
1930s- Picture Page (1936–1939, 1946–1952).
- For the Children (1937–1939, 1946–1950)
- BBC Cricket (1939, 1946–1999, 2020–2024)
1940s- Kaleidoscope (1946–1953)
- Muffin the Mule (1946–1955, 2005–2006)
- Café Continental (1947–1953)
- Television Newsreel (1948–1954)
Births- 13 March – David Neilson, actor
- 30 March – Sue Cook, broadcaster and author
- 29 April – Anita Dobson, actress
- 2 May – Alan Titchmarsh, television presenter
- 13 May – Zoë Wanamaker, actress
- 14 May – Francesca Annis, actress
- 21 May – Andrew Neil, Scottish journalist and broadcaster
- 22 May – Cheryl Campbell, film, television and stage actor
- 16 August – John McArdle, actor
- 25 August – Ross Davidson, actor (died 2006)
- 19 September – Twiggy, model and television presenter
- 6 October – Sarah Cullen, television and radio journalist (died 2012)
- 6 November – Nigel Havers, actor
- 12 December – Bill Nighy, actor
- 13 December – Robert Lindsay, actor
Deaths- 10 June – Sir Frederick Ogilvie, Director General of the BBC, 57
See also- 1949 in British music
- 1949 in the United Kingdom
- List of British films of 1949
References1. ^"A history of TV weather forecasts ", BBC website, 16 January 2009
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