For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.” The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented.
In Countdown #93, we recount the first live telecasts of America's "National Pastime" in the summer of 1939 – a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Dodgers at Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field. The games were covered by two cameras: one was fixed on the upper deck behind the batter’s box, the other was stationed behind the visiting team’s dugout along the first-base line.
Over the ensuing decades, the revenue generated from television would reshape the economics of not only baseball, but all of America’s major sports.
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