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In the year of 1961, the first rugby match was televised. This televised event took place in Australia, where rugby was first introduced.
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The World Cup was first televised in 1954.
The 1956 Tony Awards were the first to be televised.
A noteworthy event that took place on October the 5th was the first televised White House address given by President Truman.
January 4th, 1964. JoAnne Smith was the winner of the first televised woman's sporting event. It was ski jumping. She won by 20 meters. She is my great grandmother. I could be wrong, but I do believe that some ladies golf tournaments/challenges were televised before 1964. I remember watching the great Mickey Wright play against another woman golfer (I think it was Sandra Haynie) and think it was closer to 1962. Surreyfan
CNN televised it and Ole Miss hosted the event.
The first televised inauguration was Harry Truman's on Jan 20, 1949.
It would be used at the very first event, and never again. The understanding is that it will occur yearly from that point on.
The first televised sport in the us is baseball
The 38th Academy Awards Ceremony in 1966 was the first to be televised in color.
Back in 1946 the BBC televised live the second half of Barnet's game against Wealdstone from Underhill - the first televised broadcast.