NY TV debut 11/19/48 from 8 to 9:40 pm on WPIX. There had been experimental color broadcasts in the US as early as 1940, but the FCC had not approved any systems by this point. So 1938 Korda comedy was broadcast in black-and-white. US copyright expired 1966. 
11/19/48 at 8:30 pm on WATV and 9 to 10:10 pm on WCBS' "Film Theatre of the Air.'' 1933 Poverty Row adventure and 1936 British thriller released by Grand National were available to TV stations as early as 1942, but first appearance in listings was 70 years ago tonight in NYC.
11/19/53 at 9 pm on WOR. Trickle of new feature arrivals meant endless repeats as titles cycled among NYC's 7 VHF stations at this point. Ulmer's stylish 1945 noir variation on HAMLET for defunct PRC had been on TV since 10/9/47 debut on WABD, now WNYW/5.
NY TV debut 11/19/58 from 5:30 to 7 on WCBS' "The Early Show.'' Dramatically different situation five years later, at least on Channel 2 which was working through a huge stockpile of new-to-TV contracted titles like Rosson's 1935 service adventure.
NY TV debut 11/19/58 from 5 to 6:30 pm on "Movie 4.'' 1938 episode, the second, in forgotten Fox B series featuring comic Armetta with different leads and sports in each one. I can find no record of the other two ever being being shown on NY TV stations. @leonardmaltin?
11/19/63 at 9:30 am and 1:30 pm on WOR's "Love Story.'' WOR's programmers often seemed to have more of a sense of humor than their counterparts, hence Oswald's 1957 noir about unhappily married police detective's wife on showcase that repeated films ten times over a week.
11/19/68 at 12:30 pm on WOR. No actor seemed to work at more studios (except WB) in the 40s than tireless Sanders. Among his 40 films (top-billed or not, many classics) that decade was a single appearance for Columbia, a forgotten 1943 spy thriller. DVD: Sony Choice.
11/19/73 at 9 pm on "NBC Monday Night at the Movies.'' The great Ossie Davis directed this unaccountably neglected and very funny crime comedy, as good a time capsule of 1970 New York City as you're likely to find.
11/19/78 at 11:30 am on WPIX. When Universal's distribution deals with Screen Gems and Seven Arts expired, Channel 11 was finally able to get a package of all the pre-'50 and post-'50 A&Cs which had been spread pretty far and wide.
US TV debut 11/19/83 from 8:30 to 11 pm on "The CBS Saturday Night Movies.'' Frank Perry's apparently unintended 1981 campfest, the subject of one of the most notorious full-page movie ads ever to run in the New York Times.
11/19/83 from 8 to 10 pm on WNEW and 10 to 12 pm on WNET. For those who just couldn't face Faye's Joan Crawford, a nice comfy Saturday night double feature of oldies that had been on New York TV for decades, the second sans commercials even.
11/19/83 at 11 pm on WNEW and midnight on WCBS. Let's just say Clint had more chemistry with Jeff in a Cimino that actually does look better now than it did then. Overlapping Eastwoods had prime-time premiered on ABC in 1977 and NBC in 1972.
11/19/88 at 3 am on WPIX. The oddest of RKO oddities, "Un Film De Howard Hughes'' completed principal photography in 1950 but was not released until 1957. Included in sale to General Teleradio, but bought back by HH along w/THE CONQUEROR; did not hit TV until after his 1976 death
11/19/93 at 7 pm on AMC. Goldwyn's 1938 flop made official NY TV debut 3/19/65 on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' But it may have been watched by a tiny audience of at-home early adopters 12/24/41 on WNBT, the RCA/NBC flagship then broadcasting on Channel 1.
11/19/98 at 4 am TCM. The oeuvres of William Powell, Bette Davis and Busby Berkeley gloriously overlapped just once, in this Dieterle-directed oddity. Shown on an evening devoted to haute couture movies, following A LIFE OF HER OWN (1950).
