30 March – Tyne Tees Television's regional news magazine North East Roundabout is relaunched as North East Newsview.
April[]
1 April – The Bressay transmitting station in the Shetland Islands comes into service, making the islands the last area of the United Kingdom to get a television transmitter.
20 April – BBC Two starts broadcasting,[3] the existing BBC TV channel is renamed BBC1.
26 April – News Review, a summary of the week's news with subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, is broadcast for the first time as part of the launch of BBC2.
30 April – Television sets manufactured as of this date are required to receive UHF channels.
May[]
5 May – The documentary film Seven Up! is broadcast on ITV, showing the lives of fourteen school children. Subsequent films in the series have seen them interviewed every seven years since.
30 May – The 26-part documentary series The Great War covering events in World War I begins airing on the BBC.
June[]
No events.
July[]
July – Associated Television's series Emergency – Ward 10 shows the first kiss on television between black and white actors, Joan Hooley playing surgeon Louise Mahler and John White playing Dr. Giles Farmer.
August[]
22 August – The first Match of the Day airs on BBC2.[4] The following episodes moved to BBC1.
September[]
18 September – Doctor Who goes to air on NZBC in New Zealand making it the first country outside of Great Britain to broadcast the long running science fiction series. It will first air in the region of Christchurch from 18 September to 11 December 1964, then in Auckland from 30 October 1964 to 29 January 1965, Wellington from 6 November 1964 to 5 February 1965 and Dunedin from 5 March to 28 May 1965.
28 September – In the Midlands, BBC One airs the first edition of its local news programme, Midlands Today.[5]
October[]
10 October – The 1964 Summer Olympics opening ceremony at Tokyo, Japan, with first time of live Olympic telecast program by geostationary communication satellite.
13 October – Danger Man (US: Secret Agent) returns to ITV in longer episodes after being cancelled in 1961.
October – Southern launches a weekly news magazine for the south east called ‘’Friday at Ten’’.
November[]
2 November – Crossroads premieres on ITV.
December[]
6 December – BBC2 goes on air in the Midlands and East Anglia, because the Sutton Coldfield transmitting station initially cannot relay BBC2 beyond an area reception to the Midlands region, resulting in a staggered signal.