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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.
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 ...
It was exactly 64 years ago that the first baseball. ... WCBS-TV in New York City broadcast the Boston Braves beating the Brooklyn Dodgers by an 8-1 score.
In 1953, ABC-TV executive Edgar J. Scherick (who would later go on to create Wide World of Sports) broached a Saturday Game of the Week- baseball's first regular-season network telecast. At the time, ABC was labeled a "nothing network" that had fewer outlets than CBS or NBC. ABC also needed paid programming or "anything for bills" as Scherick ...
Steve Berthiaume: host (2004–2005, 2007–2012) Baseball Tonight (TV play-by-play for the Arizona D'Backs) Dusty Baker: analyst (2007) Baseball Tonight; Aaron Boone: analyst (2010–2017) Baseball Tonight, Sunday Night Baseball and Monday Night Baseball; Larry Bowa: analyst (2005) Baseball Tonight; Jim Bowden: analyst (2012–2017) Baseball ...
The 17th Major League Baseball All-Star Game was played on July 11, hosted by the Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, with the National League winning, 4–3. On April 18, the Boston Braves become the fifth team in MLB to break the color line when they fielded Sam Jethroe. [1]
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.