The year 1927 in television involved some significant events.
Below is a list of television-related events during 1927.
Global television events
| Month | Day | Event |
| January | 07 | Philo Farnsworth applies for an image dissector tube patent, which used caesium to produce images electronically. |
| April | 07 | Bell Telephone Company transmits a speech by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover 320 kilometers over telephone lines, which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television. Experimental station 3XN in Whippany, New Jersey is used to transmit 1,575 kHz video and 1,450 kHz radio. The system uses a flying-spot scanner, and is seen on Nipkow disc receivers with two-inch, 50-line images, and on a two-foot neon tube display. It was developed by Herbert E. Ives and Frank Gray. Edna Mae Horner, an operator at the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, assisted the transmission and became the first woman on television; she helped guests in Washington, D.C., exchange greetings with the audience in New York . Throughout the presentation, viewers in New York could see and hear Edna . |
| May |
23 | The first demonstration of television before a large audience. Nearly 600 members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers view the demonstration at the Bell Telephone Building in New York City. |
| 24 | John Logie Baird transmits a television signal from London to Glasgow by telephone line. |
| September |
07 | Philo Farnsworth achieves an experimental electronic television image, of a straight line, at his laboratory at 202 Green Street in San Francisco.[1] |
| 20 | John Logie Baird demonstrates the first ever system for recording television. His Phonovision VideoDisc apparatus records 30-line television pictures and sound on conventional 78 rpm gramophone records. |
Births
| Date | Name | Notability |
| January 3 | William Boyett | U.S. actor (Adam-12) (died 2004) |
| January 17 | Eartha Kitt | U.S. actress and singer (died 2008) |
| January 27 | Jerry Haynes | U.S. actor ("Mr Peppermint") (died 2011) |
| February 15 | Carlos Romero | U.S. actor (died 2007) |
| Harvey Korman | U.S. actor and comedian (The Carol Burnett Show) (died 2008) |
| March 31 | William Daniels | U.S. actor (Knight Rider, St. Elsewhere, Boy Meets World) |
| May 4 | Terry Scott | English actor and comedian (died 1994) |
| May 5 | Pat Carroll | U.S. actress |
| May 11 | Bernard Fox | Welsh-U.S. actor (Hogan's Heroes, Bewitched) (died 2016) |
| May 22 | Michael Constantine | U.S. actor (Room 222) |
| May 30 | Clint Walker | U.S. actor and singer (Cheyenne) (died 2018) |
| June 27 | Cino Tortorella | Italian presenter (Zecchino d'Oro) (died 2017) |
| July 4 | Neil Simon | U.S. writer, playwright, and author (Your Show of Shows, The Phil Silvers Show, The Odd Couple) (died 2018) |
| July 7 | Doc Severinsen | U.S. bandleader (The Tonight Show) |
| August 30 | Bill Daily | U.S. actor and comedian (I Dream of Jeannie, The Bob Newhart Show) (died 2018) |
| September 16 | Peter Falk | U.S. actor (Columbo) (died 2010) |
| October 1 | Tom Bosley | U.S. actor (Happy Days, Murder, She Wrote) (died 2011) |
| October 14 | Roger Moore | English actor (The Saint) (died 2017) |
| November 3 | Peggy McCay | U.S. actress |
| November 20 | Estelle Parsons | U.S. actress (Roseanne) |
| November 28 | Chuck Mitchell | U.S. actor (died 1992) |
| November 30 | Robert Guillaume | U.S. actor (Soap, Benson, Sports Night) (died 2017) |