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A cameraman from the Olympic Broadcasting Services covering the men's 10 kilometre marathon swim at the 2012 Olympic Games in the Serpentine at Hyde Park. The broadcasting of sports events (also known as a sportscast) is the live coverage of sports as a television program, on radio, and other broadcasting media.
July 23, 1962 – The first live transatlantic television broadcast via the Telstar I satellite. [16] November 25, 1963 – The State funeral of John F. Kennedy was broadcast on live TV. It was seen by perhaps what was the largest viewing audience up to then. It was the first live TV coverage of a Presidential funeral.
Television broadcasting started around the 1950s and has continued to grow and become more sophisticated. When the National Basketball Association broadcasts first aired, they were broken down into four categories including; pre game, halftime, post game, and game coverage.
The programme broadcasts on weekdays through the night and includes live coverage of American sport as well as highlights from American and other global sports events. The first programme features the opening day of the 1997 Major League Baseball season. 31 May – Even though Channel 5 had said that it hadn't been intending to show live sport ...
Locally and regionally televised games were broadcast as early as 1939, but on December 23, 1951, DuMont televised the first ever live, coast-to-coast professional football game, the NFL Championship Game between the Los Angeles Rams and Cleveland Browns. DuMont paid $75,000 for the rights to broadcast the game. [2]
WWOS debuts a joint venture with Sports Illustrated TV's From the Pages of Sports Illustrated with a feature on Archie Manning's son Peyton. January 29 WWOS debuts its series of features leading up to the 1994 World Cup of soccer, with Jim McKay as host. WWOS debuts its WWOS for Kids show, with a repeat telecast of "The Great Alaskan Sled Dog ...
Early television broadcasts were limited to live or filmed productions (the first practical videotape system, Ampex's Quadruplex, only became available in 1957). [4] Broadcasting news, sports and other live events was something of a technical challenge in the early days of television and live drama with multiple cameras was extremely challenging.
Also, live coverage of every sport is shown via its interactive and online service meaning that viewers are able to watch every sport live and in full for the very first time. However, the BBC does not show the 2012 Paralympic Games, which are broadcast on Channel 4. August – Match of the Day 2 moves to BBC One.