* 1948 – Jeremy Beadle, English television host ( d. 2008 )

* 1948 – Candid Camera makes its television debut after being on radio for a year as Candid Microphone.

Bille August ( born 9 November 1948 ) is a Danish Academy Award winning film and television director.

Cable television first became available in the United States in 1948, with subscription services in 1949.

Arden portrayed the character on radio from 1948 to 1957, in a television version of the program from 1952 to 1956, and in a 1956 feature film.

* 1948 – Pat O ' Brien, American sportscaster and television host

Chapman, Cleese, and Tim Brooke-Taylor later joined Feldman in the television comedy series At Last the 1948 Show.

Hearst began acquiring radio stations in the 1920s, and in 1948, he became the owner of one of the first television stations in the country, WBAL-TV in Baltimore.

* 1948 – Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut.

Martin & Lewis made many appearances on early live television, their first on the June 20, 1948 debut broadcast of Toast of the Town with Ed Sullivan on the CBS TV Network ( later The Ed Sullivan Show ).

* 1948 – Stephen Stohn, Canadian television producer and lawyer

* 1948 – Lynn Faulds Wood, Scottish television presenter

* 1948 – Bille August, Danish film and television director

* 1947 – Meet the Press makes its television debut ( the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948 ).

* 1948 – Sarah Purcell, American television host

Also Paramount launched its own network, Paramount Television Network, in 1948 through its television unit, Television Productions, Inc.

* Rhea Perlman ( b. 1948 ), American television actress

True regular commercial television network programming did not begin in the U. S. until 1948.

This is the first complete television broadcast of the opera in the U. S. since the historic 1948 one.

In 1941 BBC radio presented a radio play version, and in 1948, another television adaptation – this time of the entire play, running to ninety minutes – was screened by the BBC.

Reality television began in 1948 with Alan Funt's TV series Candid Camera.

Candid Camera, which first aired on television in 1948, pioneered the format.

In 1948, it entered into a partnership with 20th Century Fox subsidiary Fox Movietone News to shoot newsfilm for television stations.

It began in the 1948 paper, " On the Problem of the Molecular Theory of Superconductivity " where Fritz London proposed that the phenomenological London equations may be consequences of the coherence of a quantum state.

When his Decca co-workers The Andrews Sisters began their engagement at the London Palladium directly on the heels of Kaye's incredibly successful 1948 appearance there, the trio was so well received that David Lewin of the Daily Express declared, " The audience gave The Andrews Sisters the Danny Kaye roar!

By 1948, after design modifications and experimentation with several prototypes, Morrison and business partner Warren Franscioni began producing the first plastic discs, renamin it the Flyin-Saucer in the wake of reported unidentified-flying-object sightings.

Regular shipments of beef from the Rupununi to Georgetown by air began on 9 July 1948.

On May 14, 1948, the Jewish People's Council declared the establishment of the State of Israel, following a prolonged campaign beginning in the late 19th century, when the Zionist movement began working towards creating a homeland for the Jewish people.

* As a teenager, IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad was directly involved in the pro-Nazi New Swedish Movement ( Nysvenska Rörelsen ) until at least 1948, causing tensions when IKEA began opening stores in Israel, although one source has claimed that the movement was not pro-Nazi.

The endgame began in February 1948, when a majority of the Cabinet directed the Communist interior minister, Václav Nosek, to stop packing the police force with Communists.

The Mandate ended at midnight on 14 May 1948, and the 1948 Arab – Israeli War began.

The ECA formally began operation in July 1948.

In December 1948, disputes over money ( Davis claims he was not being paid ) began to strain their relationship even further.

Key events that began the Cold War included Soviet, Yugoslav, Bulgarian, and Albanian intervention in the Greek civil war on the side of the communists, and the creation of the Berlin blockade by the Soviet Union in 1948.

Announced in November 1947, production of the post-war Olympia, with austere painted hubcaps, began in December 1948 and allowed a modest return to export sales in that year.

Although the public practice of Satanism began in 1966 with the founding of the Church of Satan, some historical precedents exist: a group called the Ophite Cultus Satanas was founded in Ohio by Herbert Arthur Sloane in 1948.

The situation began to change on 19 October 1948, when Lieutenant General Curtis LeMay assumed leadership of the Strategic Air Command, a position he held until June 1957, the longest tenure for any United States armed forces commander since Winfield Scott.

That began to change in 1948 when reports of Bikini Atoll tests were circulated among the Air Force, which made information about the bomb more available to planners and helped to convince them of its strategic capabilities.

The shot put competition for men has been a part of the modern Olympics since their revival in 1896, women's competition began in 1948.

The SCCA began sanctioning road racing in 1948, with the inaugural Watkins Glen Grand Prix.

In 1948 Alan Courtney — New York disk jockey and co-composer of the popular song, " Joltin ' Joe Dimaggio " — began a call-in program for the Storer station in Miami, Florida ( WGBS ) and then on Miami's WQAM, WINZ and WCKR the " Alan Courtney Open Phone Forum " flourished as an avowedly conservative and anti-communist political forum with a coverage area over the Southeastern U. S. and Cuba.

As an American relief agency, it was largely replaced by the Marshall Plan, which began operations in 1948.

Work on the Victor began in November 1947 and the Vulcan in January 1948.

As a further insurance measure against both radical designs failing, in July 1947 the Air Ministry issued Specification B. 9 / 48 written around Vickers-Armstrongs ' more conservative design, later named Valiant ; work began in April 1948.

In 1948 he announced that he would bequeath this collection to the Trustees of the National Theatre, and from 1951, some 14 years before his death, his paintings began their exhibition life.