The first-ever televised baseball game was on May 17, 1939, between Princeton and Columbia; Princeton beat Columbia 2-1 at Columbia's Baker Field. The contest was aired on W2XBS, an experimental station in New York City which would ultimately become WNBC-TV. The game was announced by Bill Stern On August 26 of the same year, the first ever Major League Baseball game was televised (once again on W2XBS). With Red Barber announcing, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds played a doubleheader at Ebbets Field. taken from Wikipedia
The first televised sport in the us is baseball
1939, May 17th. Columbia VS Princeton baseball game from Baker Field in Northern Manhattan.
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In New York, the game was broadcasted on channel 9.
baseball on may 17, 1939. between Princeton and Columbia. broadcast by nbc
It was a college baseball game.
The first televised sport in the us is baseball
1939, May 17th. Columbia VS Princeton baseball game from Baker Field in Northern Manhattan.
Yes. However, part of the New York area was blacked out because the game didn't sell out. But, officially, you could say it was the first nationally televised game; though not the first televised.
1964 was the first Summer Games televised in the United States
deal or no deal
1947
1947
Back in 1946 the BBC televised live the second half of Barnet's game against Wealdstone from Underhill - the first televised broadcast.
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1946
It was in 1947