First Sports TV Broadcast (opens in new tab)

May 17, 1939 NBC carries the first broadcast televised sporting event in history, the second game of a doubleheader baseball game between Columbia and Princeton. Only about 400 TV sets were capable of receiving the transmission, but it was an important first step in the history of televised sports. NBC would later broadcast a major… First Sports TV Broadcast is original content of This Day in Tech History.