12/19/43 at 8:50 pm on W2XVW. Bette Davis graced Allen B. DuMont's experimental New York City station with Vincent Sherman's A PRESENT WITH A FUTURE, a 3-minute war bond short that was made at Warner Bros. 75 years ago for showing in theaters. 
NY TV debut 12/19/48 at 8:30 pm on WATV. Henabery, who played Lincoln in BIRTH OF NATION, directed a ton of VItaphone shorts and a few Poverty Row features like this 1935 yarn about former racers and a newspaper reporter.
12/19/53 at 3:30 pm on WCBS' "Early Matinee.'' Richard Wallace's disarming 1938 Selznick comedy about family of grifters made NY TV debut 9/9/44 on WNBT. It was not among the Selznicks that showed on ABC in the 1970s, but somehow Disney owns it now.
NY TV debut 12/19/58 at 7:30 pm on WNTA's "Movie Night.'' Boy, was I wrong about about MIRACLE strangely premiering at 11 pm on 12/20/59. Newsday listing (NYC newspapers were strike-bound) reveals it was actually shown three times one night (also at 9 and 10:30) a year earlier.
NY TV debut 12/19/58 at 11:15 pm on WCBS' "Late Show.'' The evening's other big premiere was a "packed with pleasure'' 1941 cross between Victor Herbert's operetta and Molnar's non-musical "The Guardsman.''
12/19/63 at 11:20 pm on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Kaye's only vehicle for WB had been shown by Channel 2 in black-in-white since its NY TV debut 12/5/59. Its copyright not renewed 28 years after 1949 release, period musical became a public-domain evergreen.
12/19/68 at 8 am on WABC's "Movie of the Day.'' Actually, Alda and Leslie had made this well before RHAPSODY IN BLUE, but it was held back so Alda could make his "debut" in the latter, necessitating the deletion of wartime references and numbers from CINDERELLA for 1946 release.
12/19/73 at 11:30 pm on WNEW. 1956 remake, Bing's last for Paramount, necessitated re-titling of his 1936 version as TOPS IS THE LIMIT for TV showings. "Asinine,'' griped Howard Thompson, but worse, the earlier was has never been on video.
12/19/78 at 2:50 am on WNET. Another long-MIA Paramount, Murphy's 1944 noir-ish sci-fi thriller stared Asther, whose career went back to the silents, as a 120-year-old scientist, a role considered for Alan Ladd and Albert Dekker.
12/19/83 on WPIX's "12:30 Star Movie.'' Self-produced 1951 Hope comedy was remake of 1934 Runyon adaptation. William Frawley also played Gloomy Willy in the earlier version, making belated US TV debut 5/29/84 on the USA Network, unseen for decades since.
12/19/88 at 1:50 am on "TNT Overnight.'' O'Brien plays Craig Rice's sleuth John J. Malone, mysteriously renamed Mike, in Sutherland's 1945 RKO that made its NY TV debut 7/14/58 on WOR's "Million Dollar Movie.''
12/19/93: Public domain chestnut makes its final rounds as the season's most ubiquitous movie before beginning its long, exclusive run on NBC in 1994, courtesy of the owners invoking underlying rights.
12/19/98 at 10 pm on TCM's "Feature Presentation With Robert Osborne.'' TCM's 4/14/94 launch meant it just missed access to IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, which ran on TBS/TNT. Capra's other suicidal PD classic has been a Yule staple. NY TV debut 9/12/50 on WNBT; copyright expired 1969.
I've wondered about provenance of TCM's print, better than any home video version I've seen. Supposedly AFI did partial restoration in '70s using materials from original theatrical distributor Warners. I've heard it's blocked by claims from Sony, as Screen Gems held pre-PD rights
