The year 1928 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events during 1928.__TOC__
| Month | Day | Event |
|---|---|---|
| January | 13 | Dr. Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson performs the first successful public television broadcast. The pictures, with 48 lines at 16 frames per second, are received on sets with 1.5 sq. inch screens in the homes of four General Electric executives in Schenectady, New York. The sound is transmitted by the WGY radio station. |
| February | 09 | John Logie Baird transmits television pictures across the Atlantic. The pictures are transmitted from Motograph House, London by telephone cable to Ben Clapp's station GK2Z at 40 Warwick Road, Coulsdon, Surrey, and then by radio to Hartsdale, New York, United States. |
| June | 12 | The first outside broadcast is made by John Logie Baird on his roof in 133 Long Acre, London, featuring the actor Jack Buchanan. |
| July | 02 | Charles Francis Jenkins begins thrice-weekly television broadcasts in Washington, D.C., transmitting silhouette motion pictures.[1] Station W3XK broadcasts from 8 to 9 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights, testing on 46.72 metres for distance reception and on 186 metres locally.[2] |
| 03 | John Logie Baird demonstrates a colour television system achieved by using a scanning disc with spirals of red, green and blue filters at the transmitting and receiving ends.[3] | |
| August | 14 | Hugo Gernsback's radio station, WRNY (New York City) begins a regular, if limited, schedule of live television broadcasts, using a mechanical system developed by a South-American inventor. It transmits 48-line images. |
| September | 1 | Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his image dissector camera and "oscillite" tube receiver for the press, with the transmission of motion picture clips, described by a reporter as "a queer looking little image in bluish light now, one that frequently smudges and blurs."[4] It is the first public demonstration of an all-electronic television system. |
| 11 | The first broadcast of a play by television, melodrama The Queen's Messenger, on General Electric's W2XAD from Schenectady, New York, utilising techniques created by Ernst Alexanderson. Three electromechanical cameras are used.[5] |
| Date | Name | Notability | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 5 | U.S. politician (died 2021) | ||
| January 8 | U.S. television journalist (died 2019) | ||
| January 11 | U.S. actor (Dark Shadows) (died 2022) | ||
| January 20 | Canadian-American actor (Flamingo Road, The X-Files) (died 2018) | ||
| February 1 | U.S. actor (Cimarron Strip) (died 2020) | ||
| February 11 | U.S. jazz musician and actor (Mork & Mindy) (died 2022) | ||
| February 13 | U.S. composer (died 2023) | ||
| February 22 | English entertainer and presenter (Sunday Night at the London Palladium, The Generation Game) (died 2017) | ||
| February 29 | English actor (died 2023) | ||
| Actress (died 2005) | |||
| March 20 | U.S. television personality and musician (Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood) (died 2003) | ||
| April 1 | U.S. actor (Law & Order) (died 2007) | ||
| April 4 | U.S. actress (Seinfeld) (died 2022) | ||
| April 7 | U.S. film and television actor (Maverick, The Rockford Files) (died 2014) | ||
| April 23 | British executive, controller of BBC One (1977–1981), managing director of BBC Television (1981–1987) (died 2008) | ||
| May 23 | English-born U.S. actress (Search for Tomorrow, Hey, Jeannie!) | ||
| Actor (died 2013) | |||
| June 4 | Talk show host (died 2024) | ||
| June 20 | U.S. actor (Mission: Impossible) (died 2017) | ||
| July 1 | Finnish actress (Mumintrollet) (died 2017) | ||
| July 13 | U.S. disc jockey and actor (Hogan's Heroes) (died 1978) | ||
| July 15 | U.S. actor | ||
| July 22 | U.S. actor (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman) (died 2020) | ||
| August 10 | Actor (died 2010) | ||
| August 17 | Dutch radio and television presenter (died 2011) | ||
| September 1 | U.S. actor (Route 66) | ||
| September 19 | U.S. actor (Batman) (died 2017) | ||
| September 23 | U.S. actor (died 1995) | ||
| September 28 | U.S. television executive (died 2008) | ||
| October 17 | U.S. actor (Outlaws) (died 2021) | ||
| October 25 | Hal Bruno | U.S. journalist (ABC News) (died 2011) | |
| U.S. actress (Happy Days) | |||
| U.S. actor (died 2006) | |||
| November 11 | U.S. broadcast journalist (died 2015) | ||
| December 10 | U.S. actor (Bonanza) (died 1972) | ||
| December 16 | U.S. actor (McCloud) (died 2024) | ||
| December 17 | U.S. actor (The Andy Griffith Show) (died 2012) | ||
| December 28 | U.S. broadcast personality (died 2016) | ||
| December 29 | English actor (died 2022) |