Mark Schubin: The First Sports Video

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I have known Mark Schubin for years. In addition to being an multiple emmy award winning engineer, he is one of the most articulate writers of media technology around. His now column, Schubin Cafe, now appears on the SVG/Sports Video Group blogs. I found is first post of particular interest.

For this, my first post on a Sports Video Group blog, I thought I’d look back at the first sports video. Ah, but when was that?

Press coverage of the 2009 book “Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World,” by David Maraniss, sometimes said those were the first Olympic Games to be televised. They weren’t. The 1948 London Olympics were televised, and they weren’t the first, either.

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