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DuMont ceased most entertainment programs (and a nightly newscast) in early April 1955. DuMont still broadcast some sports events (a Monday-night boxing show and the 1955 NFL season) until either August 1956, [9] or Thanksgiving 1957. [10]
21 March – The final edition of Sport on Friday is broadcast, the programme ending after a decade on air. 9 April – The BBC broadcasts greyhound racing's TV Trophy for the final time. 14 May – After nearly 30 years on air, the final edition of Sportsnight is shown on BBC1. 1998. 25 January – Sunday Grandstand becomes a year-round ...
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.
On August 11, 1951 WCBS-TV in New York City televised the first baseball game (in which the Boston Braves beat the Brooklyn Dodgers by the score of 8–4) in color.On October 1 of that year, NBC aired the first coast-to-coast baseball telecast as the Brooklyn Dodgers were beaten by the New York Giants in the first game of a playoff series by the score of 3–1 featuring Bobby Thomson's two-run ...
This became the first-ever cooperative television plan for professional football, in which the proceeds of the contract were divided equally among member clubs; the National Football League would follow suit in 1961, a move that required Congress to pass the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 to accommodate such collective broadcasting contracts.
United Kingdom sports broadcasting timelines (23 P) Pages in category "History of sports broadcasting" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
No playoff games were televised during this period, and all broadcasts took place in one of the four American arenas [11] at the time. As previously mentioned, CBS covered the 1956–57 season on Saturday afternoons, starting on January 5.
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. Many fans watched the action unfold from bars and other public places. This soon became television's first mass audience. On April 16, 1948, Chicago's WGN-TV (run by Jake Israel) broadcast its first big-league game.