August 26, 1939 History.com First televised Major League
baseball game
This Day in History
On this day in 1939, the first televised Major League
baseball game is broadcast on station W2XBS, the station that was to become
WNBC-TV. Announcer Red Barber called the game between the Cincinnati Reds and
the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York.
At the time, television was still in its infancy. Regular
programming did not yet exist, and very few people owned television sets–there
were only about 400 in the New York area. Not until 1946 did regular network
broadcasting catch on in the United States, and only in the mid-1950s did
television sets become more common in the American household. Read more:
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