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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 ...
The MLB on Fox pre- and post-game broadcast set at Progressive Field in Cleveland during its coverage of the 2016 World Series. Major League Baseball (MLB) has been broadcast on American television since the 1950s, with initial broadcasts on the experimental station W2XBS, the predecessor of the modern WNBC in New York City.
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It was exactly 64 years ago that the first baseball But one of the biggest advancements in the game's history took place on this day in 1951. 64 years ago today, the 1st MLB game was broadcast in ...
In 1982, Major League Baseball recognized a problem with this due to the emergence of cable superstations such as WTBS in Atlanta and WGN-TV in Chicago. When TBS tried to petition for the right to do a "local" Braves broadcast of the 1982 NLCS , Major League Baseball got a Philadelphia federal court to ban them on the grounds that as a cable ...
Major League Baseball however, had a TV deal with NBC for the All-Star Game and World Series. At the end of the season, ABC declined to exercise its $6.5 million option for 1966, citing poor ratings, [30] [31] especially in New York.
The 1950 major league baseball season began on April 18, 1950. The regular season ended on October 1, with the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees as the regular season champions of the National League and American League , respectively.
1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s; Pages in category "1950s American sports television series" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.