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1940: The American Federal Communications Commission, (), holds public hearings about television; 1941: First television advertisements aired. The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941, over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.
The history of the National Football League on television documents the long history of the National Football League on television.The NFL, along with boxing and professional wrestling (before the latter publicly became known as a "fake" sport), was a pioneer of sports broadcasting during a time when baseball and college football were more popular than professional football.
The following is the list of most watched television broadcasts in the United States by average viewership, according to Nielsen. Of the 30 most-watched telecasts, 27 are Super Bowls . The Apollo 11 moon landing is considered the most watched broadcasts of all time, with an estimated viewership of 125–150 million. [ 1 ]
The Coaches Show; First on the Field (now NFL GameDay First) A Football Life; Good Morning Football; NFL Classics; NFL Fantasy Live; NFL Films Presents; NFL Follies; NFL GameDay; NFL GameDay Morning; NFL RedZone Replay; NFL Replay; NFL Scoreboard; NFL Top 10; NFL Weekly Countdown (formerly Starting 11) Path to the Draft; Sound FX (formerly Live ...
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Since 2010, except 2019 and 2021, the annual Super Bowl telecasts (including the halftime shows) have regularly attracted more than 100 million viewers in the United States alone, making it the only broadcast in U.S. television history to exceed the said annual viewership threshold for at least 10 years overall. [119]
With an average U.S. audience of 106.5 million viewers, Super Bowl XLIV on CBS was, at the time, the most-watched Super Bowl telecast in the championship game's history as well as the most-watched program of any kind in American television history, beating the record previously set 27 years earlier by the final episode of M*A*S*H, which was ...
3 April - The Football League Management Committee reject a £1m offer from BBC Television to show live League football on Thursday nights. [100] 12 August - The FA Charity Shield between Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford is covered by BBC colour cameras, with plans for a special broadcast on BBC2. A press reception was ...