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Then the first televised sporting event occurred May 17 1939, which was a college baseball game between Columbia and Princeton. In 1951, the first sports color telecast was a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves. [5] As years went by more options were given to the public and the more popular sports broadcasting became.
August 1–16, 1936 – The 1936 Summer Olympics, held in Berlin, Germany, were the first Olympic Games (and sporting event) to have live television coverage. [1] May 17, 1939 – The first live televised sporting event in the U.S. takes place: a college baseball game between the Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers, was broadcast by NBC ...
It was exactly 64 years ago that the first baseball game was broadcast on television in color. WCBS-TV in New York City broadcast the Boston Braves beating the Brooklyn Dodgers by an 8-1 score.
Estimates are that the broadcast reached approximately 1,000 television sets. [6] The game came just over a month after the Brooklyn Dodgers hosted the Cincinnati Reds in the first-ever televised professional baseball game, [7] and five months after the Princeton and Columbia baseball teams played the first televised American sporting event. [8]
Today in 1939, the first MLB game was broadcast on television in Brooklyn. ... In 2015, sports television makes up a huge portion of the sports industry. The NBA just signed a $24 billion ...
The Reds snap the streak on August 12, however, the Cards take two of their three meetings at Sportsman's Park to move within 6.5 of first place. August 14 – The Chicago White Sox defeat the St. Louis Browns 5–2. it was the first night baseball game ever played in the city of Chicago.
September 4 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast occurs in San Francisco, California from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference. September 29 The first live sporting event broadcast coast-to-coast, a college football game between Duke University and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised by NBC.
On August 3, 1993, Gayle Gardner became the first woman to do television play-by-play for a Major League Baseball game. It was the Colorado Rockies vs. Cincinnati Reds on KWGN-TV in Denver. Also in 1993, CBS' Andrea Joyce became the first woman to co-host the network television coverage of the World Series.