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The year 1979 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1979.

For the American TV schedule, see: 1979-80 American network television schedule.

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Events

  • January 9 – The Music for UNICEF Concert is performed in New York City. The televised special airs the following night on NBC in the United States.
  • February 11 – In the US, 43 million viewers watch Elvis, a made for TV movie starring Kurt Russell as Elvis Presley, on ABC.
  • March 6 – Another World becomes the first (and, to date, the only) soap opera to air regularly-scheduled ninety-minute telecasts. The time extension coincides with the death of long-running character John Randolph (played by Michael M. Ryan) in a house fire. The show goes back to 60-minute episodes in August 1980.
  • March 6 – Villain Roger Thorpe (played by Michael Zaslow) rapes his wife Holly (Maureen Garrett) on Guiding Light, the first time spousal rape was shown on U.S. television.
  • March 19 – C-Span. a United States cable channel is launched.
  • April 22 – Friendly Fire, a TV movie starring Carol Burnett as a mother who wants to know how her son died in Vietnam, airs on ABC.
  • August 10 – In the UK, the whole of the ITV network except in the Channel Islands, is affected by a technicians' strike for eleven weeks.
  • September 7 – ESPN begins broadcasting sports 24/7 and was the first cable channel to be launched.
  • September 19 – On the two-hour TV-movie season premiere event on Eight is Enough, both David and Susan Bradford married their respective loves in a double ceremony. The premiere grabbed a 40 share across the two hours.
  • October 24 – On ITV's first night back on air after the strike, Quatermass, the fourth and final serial featuring Professor Bernard Quatermass, begins its run on the network.
  • Over 300 million households worldwide now own television sets.
  • December 1 – The Movie Channel begins broadcasting movies 24/7.
  • General Hospital tops the yearly daytime television ratings for the first time.
  • CFMT, Toronto's first multicultural channel, launches.
  • Un Pecado del Amor premieres in Guatemala.
  • First color television broadcasts in Greece.
  • BBC2 unveils the first computer-generated television presentation symbol in the world. US broadcaster NBC unveils their first computer-generated symbol later that year.
  • Berlinda Tolbert and Mike Evans who both portray Lionel and Jenny Willis Jefferson, rejoins the cast of The Jeffersons, Mike Evans returns to the series, after the television show he co-created, Good Times, was cancelled, Tolbert and Evans joins the cast until Spring of 1981.

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