Cynthia Littleton of Variety and Tom Hoffarth of the Daily News have pieces on today's 70th anniversary of what's said to be the debut of commercial television – with both noting that a Dodgers-Phillies (Brooklyn loses, 6-4) game was part of the original programming. The Dodgers also played in the first televised baseball game, in 1939.... Television sets had been available in Gotham department stores such as Macy's since the 1939 World's Fair broadcast got early adopters excited about the potential of television. But most of the sets in use in 1941 were set up to receive 441 lines of picture while the FCC had set the commercial telecasting standard at 525. That made for some muddy visuals early on.Variety was unimpressed by the overall presentation, the hucksterism a
The first commercial Dodgers broadcast, 70 years ago today
Published July 1, 2011 at 8:35 AM
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