The year 1931 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1931.

Events

• May 1 - The first wedding is broadcast on television, on New York City's W2XCR.
• July 21 - CBS's station W2XAB began broadcasting 28 hours a week in New York City. http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/television5.html

October 30: NBC on Empire State Building which had opened in May 1931

• October 30 - NBC installs a television transmitter on top of the Empire State Building.
• November 1 - Television images are transmitted from JOAK radio station in Tokyo, Japan by Professors Kenjiro Takayagani and Tomomasa Nakashima. The images comprise 80 lines at 20 frames per second.
• December 22 - NBC begins broadcasting experimental test transmissions from the Empire State Building transmitter.
• December 23 - Don Lee Broadcasting signs on W6XAO (later KTSL) from Los Angeles with low-definition electromechanical television, broadcasting one hour of film footage, six days per week.
• Canada's first television station, VE9EC, begins broadcasting in Montreal, Quebec. VE9EC was owned jointly by radio station CKAC and the newspaper La Presse.

Debuts

• The Television Ghost premieres on the experimental W2XAB (1931-1933).

Television shows

Births

• January 13 - Charles Nelson Reilly, actor, game show panelist (d. 2007)
• January 17 - James Earl Jones, actor
• January 19 - Robert MacNeil, news reporter
• February 13 - Geoff Edwards, game show host
• March 11 - Rupert Murdoch, media mogul
• March 22 - William Shatner, actor
• March 26 - Leonard Nimoy, actor
• March 27 - David Janssen, actor (d. 1980)
• April 6 - Ivan Dixon, actor
• April 26 - Bernie Brillstein, agent, producer
• May 23 - Barbara Barrie, actress
• June 8 - Dana Wynter, actress
• June 14 - Marla Gibbs, actress
• June 20 - Martin Landau, actor
• July 6 - Della Reese, actress, singer
• July 8 - Roone Arledge, producer (d. 2002)
• July 27 - Jerry Van Dyke, actor
• July 28 - Darryl Hickman, actor
• August 25 - Regis Philbin, talk show host
• September 4 - Mitzi Gaynor, singer, actress
• September 10 - Philip Baker Hall, actor
• September 13 - Barbara Bain, actress
• September 21 - Larry Hagman, actor
• September 30 - Angie Dickinson, actress
• October 31 - Dan Rather, news reporter
• November 8 - Morley Safer, news reporter
• November 12 - Dick Clair, writer (d. 1988)
• November 28 - Hope Lange, actress (d. 2003)
• December 3 - Jaye P. Morgan, game show panelist
• December 11 - Rita Moreno, actress
• December 23 - Ronnie Schell, comedian
• December 28 - Martin Milner, actor

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