* 1946 – Terry Nutkins, English television host and author ( d. 2012 )

David Keith Lynch ( born January 20, 1946 ) is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor.

* 1946 – Dick Wolf, American television series creator

In 1946 the FCC's decision to use Armstrong's FM system as the standard for NTSC television sound gave Armstrong another chance at royalty payments.

* 1946 – John Stapleton, English television presenter

Paganini has been portrayed by a number of actors in film and television productions, including Stewart Granger in the 1946 biographical portrait The Magic Bow, Roxy Roth in A Song to Remember, and Klaus Kinski in Kinski Paganini ( 1989 ).

Timothy James " Tim " Curry ( born 19 April 1946 ) is a British actor, singer, composer and voice actor, known for his work in a diverse range of theatre, film and television productions.

In Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ( 1956 ), Ishmael ( Richard Basehart ) narrates the story and sometimes comments on the action in voice-over, as does Joe Gillis ( William Holden ) in Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ) and Eric Erickson ( William Holden ) in The Counterfeit Traitor ( 1962 ); adult Pip ( John Mills ) in Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Michael York in a television remake ( 1974 ).

** David Angell, American television producer ( b. 1946 )

The DuMont Television Network, which had begun experimental broadcasts before the war, launched what Newsweek called " the country's first permanent commercial television network " on August 15, 1946, connecting New York with Washington.

John Logie Baird ( 13 August 188814 June 1946 ) was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first practical, publicly demonstrated television system, and also the world's first fully electronic colour television tube.

Maureen Diane Lipman, CBE ( born 10 May 1946 ) is a British film, theatre and television actress, columnist and comedienne.

Historical ' firsts ' from this era, the world's earliest television crime drama Telecrime ( 1938 – 39 and 1946 ) or Pinwright's Progress ( 1946 – 47, the world's first regular situation comedy ), only remain visually as a handful of still photographs.

Joanna Lamond Lumley, OBE, FRGS ( born 1 May 1946 ) is an English actress, voice-over artist, former-model and author, best known for her role in the British television series Absolutely Fabulous portraying Edina Monsoon's best friend, Patsy Stone, as well as parts in The New Avengers, Sapphire & Steel and Sensitive Skin.

* John A. Ferraro ( 1946 – 2010 ), actor, television director and stage director.

On February 9, 1928, Hartsdale became the birthplace of the American " Couch Potato " when the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird ( 1888 – 1946 ) transmitted the world's first inter-continental short-wave television signal from a transmitter ( call sign 2KZ ) in Coulsdon, Surrey ( a suburb of London ) to his colleague O. G. Hutchinson in the cellar of Robert M. Hart, an amateur radio operator ( call sign 2CVJ ) in Hartsdale.

* Harvey Dinkins ( 1900 – 1962 ), a farm writer for the Winston-Salem Journal and early radio and television personality for WSJS, beginning in 1946.

Connie Chung, full name: Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich (; born August 20, 1946 ) is an American journalist who has been an anchor and reporter for the U. S. television news networks NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC.

After the war, in 1946, she returned to her home in France, where she composed orchestral and chamber music, plus numerous other works including the ballets Paris-Magie ( with Lise Delarme ) and Parisiana ( for the Royal Ballet of Copenhaugen ), the operas Il était un petit navire ( with Henri Jeanson ), Dolores, La petite sirène ( with Philip Soupault, based on Hans Christian Andersen's story " The Little Mermaid ") and Le maître ( to a libretto by Ionesco ), the musical comedy Parfums, the Concerto des vaines paroles, for baritone voice, piano and orchestra, the Concerto for Soprano and Orchestra, the Concertino for Flute, Piano and Orchestra, the Second Piano Concerto, the Concerto for Two Guitars and Orchestra, her Second Sonata for Violin and Piano, the Sonata for Harp, as well as an impressive number of film and television scores.

Christopher John " Chris " Tarrant, OBE ( born 10 October 1946 ) is an English radio and television broadcaster, now best known for hosting the first version of the television game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Pleasence made his television debut in I Want to Be A Doctor in 1946.

The squad included seven future members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Browns ' first regular-season game took place September 6, 1946 at Cleveland Municipal Stadium against the Miami Seahawks before a record crowd of 60, 135.

However, Butler lost 53-41 to Connecticut, shooting a historically low 18. 8 percent from the field — the worst in any NCAA title game and the worst in any NCAA tourney game since Harvard against Ohio State in 1946.

Since 1933, Jacksonville has been the site of the annual Florida vs. Georgia Football Classic, a major college football rivalry game between the University of Florida Gators and the University of Georgia Bulldogs, and since 1946, the city has hosted the Gator Bowl, one of the oldest annual college football bowl games.

* 1946 – The New York Knicks played against the Toronto Huskies at the Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first Basketball Association of America game.

On November 1, 1946, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the Toronto Huskies hosted the New York Knickerbockers at Maple Leaf Gardens, in a game the NBA now regards as the first played in its history.

* 1946 – Pat Sajak, American game show host

They were still primarily a home-built proposition ; a 1946 Popular Science article details a slingshot builder and hunter using home-built slingshots made from forked dogwood sticks to take small game at ranges of up to 30 ' with No. 0 lead buckshot (. 32 in., 8 mm diameter ).

His first game was a 7-2 victory over Ireland in September 1946.

Campanella's 1946 season proceeded largely without racist incidents, and in one game Campanella took over the managerial duties after manager Walter Alston was ejected.

Walden's new team drew nearly 1, 000 fans for their opening game on June 10, 1946 – an impressive feat for a town of just 4, 000 – but it was all downhill from there.

In the World Series, they once again faced the Cardinals, and just as in 1946, the Series went to a seventh game.

The club joined the Cheshire County League in 1946 – 47, playing their first game after reformation on 31 August, 1946, a 2 – 0 defeat to Buxton.

They toned the gag down after 1941, though they kept it going often enough as the years continued, climaxing on Allen's May 26, 1946 show, in which a sketch called " King for a Day ," satirizing big-money game shows, featured Benny pretending to be a contestant named Myron Proudfoot on Allen's new quiz show.

From 1940 to 1946 the Bears displayed their dominance in the game, playing in five NFL championship games, winning four, and posted a 54 – 17 – 3 regular season record.

He played with them for seven games at the end of the 1946 NBL season, scoring an impressive 16. 5 points per game in his rookie games.

On December 3, 1946, in just his eight game as a professional, Fulks became the league's record holder for most points scored in a single game when he scored 37 points, making 16 field goals and five free throws, in Philadelphia's 76 to 68 win over the Providence Steam Rollers.

In 1946 she moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, to work on her tennis game with Hubert A. Eaton and enrolled at Williston High School.

Hilty, together with Ray McCarthy, Maurice Cherry and W. C. Ivey put up $ 10, 000 to underwrite the first game, which was held at Jacksonville's football stadium, Fairfield Stadium, on January 1, 1946.

An example of a similar smothered mate in master-level play is the game between Edward Lasker ( White ) and Israel Horowitz ( Black ) in New York City, 1946, which went: 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e3 c5 4. c4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 e5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Nc3 d4 8. exd4 exd4 9. Nb5 Bb4 + 10. Bd2 0-0 11. Bxb4 Nxb4 12. Nbxd4 Qa5 13. Nd2 Qe5 + 14. Ne2 Nd3 #.

The Raisin Bowl was an annual post-season American college football bowl game played at Ratcliffe Stadium in Fresno, California, from 1946 to 1949.