Draft:1931 in American television

This is a list of American television-related events in 1931.

Events

 * May 1 – The first wedding is broadcast by television, on New York City's W2XCR.
 * June 3 – First television outside broadcast of a sporting event: Baird televises the Epsom Derby horse race in England.
 * July 21 – CBS's station W2XAB begins broadcasting 28 hours a week in New York City.
 * August – At the Berlin Radio Show, Manfred von Ardenne gives the world's first public demonstration of a television system using a cathode-ray tube for both transmission and reception. Ardenne never develops a camera tube, using the CRT instead as a flying-spot scanner to scan slides and film.
 * October 9 – Canada's first television station, VE9EC, begins broadcasting in Montreal, Quebec. VE9EC is owned jointly by radio station CKAC and the newspaper company La Presse.
 * October 30 – NBC installs a television transmitter on top of the Empire State Building.
 * November 1 – Television images are transmitted from JOAK radio station in Tokyo, Japan by Professors Kenjiro Takayagani and Tomomasa Nakashima. The still images comprise 80 lines at 20 frames per second.
 * December 22 – NBC begins broadcasting experimental test transmissions from the Empire State Building transmitter.
 * December 23 – Don Lee Broadcasting begins broadcasting low-definition electromechanical television from the station W6XAO (later KTSL) in Los Angeles, broadcasting one hour of film footage, six days per week.