1947 in radio
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Generally
- During the year, done in a number of Central and Eastern European countries Choices for communist takeovers, so thanks in Romania from King Michael I and in Bulgaria, a new constitution is adopted. In Czechoslovakia, the Communist Party comes first legally through election to power.
- The Amsterdam publishing house Querido the resulting in U.S. exile main work of Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, the collection of essays for the first time in German language appears. One of the central problems addressed in addition to the question why the Enlightenment has failed after anti-Semitism, Nazism and the Holocaust, a fundamental critique of the " culture industry ".
- January 4 - The first edition of the news magazine Der Spiegel appears.
- March 12 - Annunciation of the Truman Doctrine and final breakup of the anti-Hitler coalition.
- July 16 - The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) leads the Federal Communications Commission before the first fully electronic color television camera in the world.
- August 14 - creation of Pakistan.
- August 15 - India is independent.
- December 23 - Developed by Walter H. Brattain, and William B. Shockley at Bell Laboratories, first functioning bipolar transistor is presented in an internal presentation. In the following years the much smaller transistors displace the electron tubes previously used, thus creating one of the most important foundations for the rapid development of microelectronics in the second half of the 20th century.
Radio
TV
- January 21 - KTLA in Los Angeles begins to send the first commercial television station in the western United States.
- Mai - In Los Angeles, the two actors Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz founded the television production company Desilu Productions. In their studios arise in the following decades, television shows such as I Love Lucy or the Starship Enterprise.
- October 5 - In the U.S., the first television address by an American president can be seen, which is also simulcast on the radio.
- November 6 - On NBC is the first edition of Meet the Press to see, until now the longest continuously running television series in the world.