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NBC television's relationship with Major League Baseball technically dates back to August 26, 1939. [1] It was on that particular date that on W2XBS (an experimental television station in New York City which would ultimately become NBC's flagship station, WNBC), the first-ever Major League Baseball game was televised.
The 1939 major league baseball season began on April 17, 1939. The regular season ended on October 1, with the Cincinnati Reds and New York Yankees as the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively.
The first-ever televised baseball game aired on May 17, 1939, ... TV ratings for a World Series game during the daytime hours would not have approached such a record ...
On August 26, 1939 Major League Baseball was televised for the first time. 1920: The 19th amendment was adopted, giving women the right to vote. 1944: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris, one day after ...
NBC television's relationship with Major League Baseball technically dates back to August 26, 1939. [1] It was on that date that on W2XBS (an experimental television station in New York City which would ultimately become what is now NBC's flagship television station, WNBC), the first-ever Major League Baseball game was televised.
On May 17, 1939, Princeton University and Columbia University played the first televised baseball game. On August 26, the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers played the first televised Major League Baseball game. Red Barber announced the game.
The year 1939 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1939. ... (later WNBC-TV) in New York. This marks ...
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 8–1) in color. On October 3 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 final game of a playoff series by the score of 5-4 (off Bobby Thomson's now ...