See also: 1929 in television, other events of 1930, 1931 in television and the list of 'years in television'.

Events

• March 31 John Logie Baird installs a television receiver at 10 Downing Street, London, the British Prime Minister’s residence.
• May 22 - An audience at Proctor's Theatre in Schenectady, New York becomes the first to see a closed-circuit television signal projected onto a big screen.
• July 14 - The first television drama, a production of Luigi Pirandello's The Man With the Flower in His Mouth, is broadcast by the BBC from Baird's studios at 133 Long Acre, London.
• November 5 Baird television transmissions at Hairdressing Fair of Fashion include the world's first television commercial for the Eugène Method of permanent hair waving.
• November - W9XAP in Chicago, Illinois broadcasts the U.S. senatorial election returns, which was apparently the first time a senatorial race, with non-stop vote tallies, was ever televised
• December 7 - W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts video from a CBS radio program, The Fox Trappers orchestra program. The broadcast also included the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I. J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.

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