Golden Globes
Feb 26 4th Golden Globes: "The Best Years of Our Lives", Gregory Peck, & Rosalind Russell win
Gregory Peck
- 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
- Sep 30 In first televised World Series Baseball game, NY Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 5-3 in Game 1 at Yankee Stadium; also largest WS crowd to date, 73,365
- Oct 3 WMAL (now WJLA) TV channel 7 in Washington, D.C. (ABC) begins
Event of Interest
Oct 5 Harry Truman makes the 1st Presidential address televised from the White House
Harry Truman
- Oct 20 HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood
Event of Interest
Oct 27 "You Bet Your Life" with Groucho Marx premieres on ABC radio
Groucho Marx
- 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 21 Bill Longson beats Lou Thesz in St Louis, to win National Wrestlingg Association world heavyweight title
- 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