Thursday, September 30, 2010

The first televised football game

The first televised football game was played on September 30, 1939 between Waynesburg College and Fordham University. Five months later, in February, 1940, Fordham University and The University of Pittsburgh played in the first televised basketball game at Madison Square Garden. The estimated number of TV sets in the fifty-mile broadcast radius was about 1,000.
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