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The October 1947 Billboard reported over 3.9 million viewing the games, primarily on TV sets located in bars (5,400 tavern TV sets in NYC alone). The October 13, 1947 edition of Time magazine reported that President Truman , who had just made the first Oval Office TV appearance on October 5, 1947 and received the first TV for the White House ...
(For the record, President Franklin Roosevelt's address broadcast over NBC experimental television W2XBS—now WNBC—at the 1939 New York World's Fair preceded the 1947 Truman broadcast. However, Truman's broadcast is the first from inside the White House.)
(For the record, President Franklin Roosevelt's address broadcast over NBC experimental television W2XBS—now WNBC—at the 1939 New York World's Fair—preceded the 1947 Truman broadcast. However, Truman's broadcast is indeed the first from inside the White House.)
Major League Baseball (MLB) has been broadcast on American television since the 1950s, with initial broadcasts on the experimental station W2XBS, the predecessor of the modern WNBC in New York City. The World Series was televised on a networked basis since 1947, with regular season games broadcast nationally since 1953.
W2XBS had the game in Brooklyn, which later became WNBC-TV. Red Barber was the lone broadcaster assigned to the game. The broadcast came at a time where television was still tremendously unpopular.
Jan. 22, 1947– present Paramount: 1947–2009, NTSC-M, now ATSC digital W2XAB: WCBS-TV: 2.1–2.2 MHz Now VHF Channel 2 New York City, New York, United States: July 31, 1931– February 1933, 1939–present Columbia Broadcasting System: Mechanical television 60 lines/20 frame/s 1941–2009, NTSC-M, now ATSC digital W2XWV: WNYW
1947? Unknown Unknown Mechanical television: None WNBT WNBC-TV: New York City: NBC: Channel 1 4.1 (UHF 28) 1928 (as W2XBS) Still on air 525 30 Mechanical television: Now ATSC: WCBW WCBS: New York City: CBS: Channel 2 2.1 (UHF 33) 1938 (as W2XAB) Still on air 525 30 Mechanical television: Now ATSC: WABD WNYW-TV: New York City: DuMont Labs, Inc ...
In 1947, The World Series was televised for the first time ever. [7] [8] The games were shown in on NBC over their WNBT channel (now WNBC). The broadcast was sponsored by Gillette and Ford. With only about 100,000 television sets in the country at the time, the 1947 World Series brought in an estimated 3.9 million viewers.