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The 1936 Summer Games in Berlin were televised to folks in Germany that had access to special 'television booths' that were located in Berlin and Potsdam. Three cameras were used and a total of 72 hours of coverage were televised. The first commercially televised Olympics in the US was the 1960 Winter Olympics. CBS bought the rights for $50,000. NBC bought the rights to telecast the 2010 Winter Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics for a total of $2,201,000,000.
In the year of 1961, the first rugby match was televised. This televised event took place in Australia, where rugby was first introduced.
The 38th Academy Awards Ceremony in 1966 was the first to be televised in color.
1964 was the first Summer Games televised in the United States
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The 1936 Summer Olympics were the first to have live television coverage. Since there were very few privately owned television sets at the time, special viewing rooms were set up in Berlin and Potsdam.
The first Miss America pageant to be televised was the 1955 pageant. It was broadcast on ABC.
It was in 1947
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