You might render decades ofradio - bounce sports broadcasting – the ' 30s stereotype of kids sit cross - legged in front of a 3 - foot - grandiloquent wireless that have them listen to the Yankees plot right after Little Orphan Annie . But in realness , there were only 18 long time between the first radio set broadcast and the firstTVbroadcast of a hot sporting outcome .
Radio conduct off in 1921 when the station KDKA in Pittsburgh started broadcastingboxing(Johnny Dundee versus Johnny Ray ) , follow shortly by baseball game ( the Pirates versus the Phillies ) and , not much later , college football ( the University of Pittsburgh versus West Virginia ) .
But that ’s beside the point in time . You sleep with about the Cold Warrace to space(USSR 1 ; USA 0 ) , but did you know about the 1930s backwash to sports TV ? The world ’s first telecast sporting consequence was the 1936 Berlin Olympics . Seventy - two hour of springy Olympics coverage went to viewing booth call " Public Television Offices " in Berlin and Potsdam ( Germany 1 ; USA 0 ) [ beginning : TV account ] . Still , like the USSR beating the USA to outer space but Americans being first to golf game on themoon , while German boob tube beat the U.S. to the punch , the first programme showed American Jesse Owens winning the 100 - meter final . In the context of world history , this was a nice consolation pillage for a turn of reason , not the least of which was African - American Owens ' triumph in light of the Nazi claim of Aryan ascendence .
The United States follow with its own TV broadcast in 1939 , when NBC showed a baseball game game between Columbia and Princeton – Lions and Tigers , oh my ! But athletics got mash into weekend spots until 1958 , when NBC circularize the first NFL Championship between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants , which the Colts succeed in extra time .
Thus was video sports born .
For more television receiver articles , check out the links on the next page .
