Sports with TV

Another area of sports that has come a long way over the years is the use of the camera. It is hard for some to believe that games were once only attended and heard only on the radio. Today, sports are offered on a variety of channels and are now even have packages where a person can pay extra to get the specific type of sport they wish to view. When looking back at some of the history of televised games, I found that 1940 was a significant year for televsion:

• January - The FCC holds public hearings on television.
• February 25 - The first ice hockey game is televised in the United States, the New York Rangers vs Montreal Canadiens, from Madison Square Garden on W2XBS-TV.
• February 28 - The first basketball game is televised, from Madison Square Garden; Fordham vs the University of Pittsburgh.
• March 10 - The Metropolitan Opera broadcast for the first time from NBC studios at Rockefeller Center an abridged performance of the first act of Pagliacci, along with excerpts from four other operas.
• March 15 - RCA cuts the price of television sets.
• May 21 - Bell Telephone Laboratories transmits a 441-line video signal, with a bandwidth of 2.7 MHz, by coaxial cable from New York to Philadelphia and back.
• June - W2XBS in New York (NBC) covers the Republican National Convention from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for 33 hours, over a five day period. The signal is transmitted via coaxial cable.
• August 29 - Peter Carl Goldmark of CBS announces his invention of a color television system.
• September 3 - CBS resumes its television transmissions with the first demonstration of high definition color TV, by W2XAB, transmitting from the Chrysler Building

From this, it is clear to see that there were a lot of firsts when it came to televsion and sports in 1940. For me it is hard to believe that all TV was all black and white. Color TV was a huge brake through. Then the TV's stated getting bigger and bigger, with  a better picture. And recently in the terms of TV they have become thinner with flat screen. At the same point in time, cameras have become better and better. Being able to capture parts of games that were never able to be seen before.