See also: 1928 in television, other events of 1929, 1930 in television and the list of 'years in television'.

Events

• June 27 - Herbert E. 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 images are of a bouquet of roses and an American flag. The images are transmitted between New York and Washington, DC.
• September 30 - The BBC and John Logie Baird begin daily experimental broadcasting of 30-line television transmissions using the BBC’s 2LO transmitter.
• Milton Berle appears in an experimental television broadcast in the US.

Births

• April 28 - Carolyn Jones, actress, Morticia in The Addams Family (+1983)
• September 5 - Bob Newhart, comedian, actor

Deaths