January 23 – W9XAL in Kansas City begins broadcasting.
January 24 – John Cameron Swayze begins his daily Journal-Post News Flashes on W9XAL, which is simulcast by KMBC radio.
April 21 – The first television revue, named Looking In, is shown on the BBC. The first four minutes of this programme survive on a Silvatone record, an early method of home video recording.
August 4 – W9XAT in Minneapolis, Minnesota makes its first transmission.
RCA performs private field tests in Camden, New Jersey of an electronic television system.
^"'Our Miss Brooks' Actress Seems Headed For Stage Stardom". The Times. Louisiana, Shreveport. May 1, 1949. p. A-17. Retrieved February 2, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.