70 Years of Football on Television
October 1, 2009 by Bill Sobel
Filed under Industry News
From our friends at SVG (Sports Video Group)
Happy Anniversary, (College) Football on TV
By: Carolyn Braff, Managing Editor | Published: October 1, 2009
September 30 marked the 70th anniversary of the first-ever televised football game, a 1939 contest between Waynesburg College and Fordham University. The telecast was produced in conjunction with the RCA/NBC pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair and aired on NBC’s experimental noncommercial television station, W2XBS. NBC’s first professional football telecast came the following month.
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