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The year '1976 in television' involved some significant events.
Below is a list of television-related events in 1976.
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Global television events

Births

Deaths

Global television events

★ The Olympics, broadcast from Montreal, Canada, draw an estimated one billion viewers worldwide.

★ Matsushita introduces the VHS home video cassette recorder to compete with Sony's Betamax system.

Births

Date	Name	Occupation/Accolades
January 6	Kait Borsay	British television presenter
January 6	Lesley Collier	British television presenter
February 11	Jenni Falconer	British television presenter
April 6	Candace Cameron	Actress on ''Full House''
July 8	Alexandra Fletcher	British actress
July 12	Anna Friel	British actress
August 6	Soleil Moon Frye	Actress who would go on to play the character ''Punky Brewster''
August 27	Sarah Chalke	Actress on ''Roseanne'' and ''Scrubs''
September 19	Alison Sweeney	Actress
October 12	Sarah Lane	US television presenter
October 23	Cat Deeley	British television presenter

Deaths

Date	Name	Occupation/Accolades
August 28	Anissa Jones	Former child actress; died from a drug overdose