Events in Film & Television in 1947

Feb 26 4th Golden Globes: "The Best Years of Our Lives", Gregory Peck, & Rosalind Russell win

Mar 4 WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
Mar 13 19th Academy Awards: "Best Years of Our Lives", De Havilland, March win
May 7 "Kraft Television Theater" premieres on NBC
Jun 27 WRC TV channel 4 in Washington, D.C. (NBC) begins broadcasting
Aug 23 8th Venice Film Festival opens (first since the start of World War II)
Sep 13 WPVI TV channel 6 in Philadelphia, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Sep 25 2nd Cannes Film Festival ends
Oct 3 WMAL (now WJLA) TV channel 7 in Washington, D.C. (ABC) begins
Oct 20 HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood

Oct 27 "You Bet Your Life" with Groucho Marx premieres on ABC radio

Oct 27 WMAR TV channel 2 in Baltimore, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting
Nov 6 NBC's "Meet the Press" debuts - US's longest running TV show
Nov 11 "Gentlemen's Agreement" directed by Elia Karan and starring Gregory Peck and Dorothy McGuire premieres in New York (Best Picture 1948)
Nov 12 KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR)
Nov 17 The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
Nov 24 The US House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists
Nov 25 The 1st systematic Hollywood blacklist is instituted, denying employment to American entertainment professionals due to alleged Communist ties or sympathies
Dec 17 WEWS TV channel 5 in Cleveland, Ohio (ABC) begins broadcasting
Dec 27 1st "Howdy Doody Show" (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC