On August 26, 1939, the first televised Major League Baseball
game was broadcast on station W2XBS, the station that was
to become WNBC-TV.
Announcer Red Barber (in suit below) called the game
between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers
at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York.
At the time, television was still in its infancy and programming
did not yet exist, and very few people owned television sets—
there were only about 400 in the New York area.
Not until 1946 did regular network broadcasting catch on in
the United States, and only in the mid-1950s did television
sets become more common in the American household.
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