(FOX NEWS) – Greg Gumbel, who broadcast the NFL
on CBS and served as the network’s studio host for
March Madness, has died after a bout with cancer.
(FOX NEWS) – Greg Gumbel, who broadcast the NFL
on CBS and served as the network’s studio host for
March Madness, has died after a bout with cancer.
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 called the game
between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at
Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York.
The Reds won the first, 5–2 while the Dodgers won the second,
6–1.
This all started in April of 1939 with the opening of The World’s
Fair, when David Sarnoff told the nation that RCA had “added
radio sight to sound”, and officially kicked off the age of
television.
Barber (in suit) called the first game on NBC Radio and
moved over to TV for the second game.
The President of RCA, David Sarnoff, dedicating the RCA
Building at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York.
After obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and
sociology from Eureka College in 1932. Ronald Reagan took
a job in Davenport, Iowa, as a sports broadcaster for four
football games in the Big Ten Conference. He then worked
for WHO radio in Des Moines as a broadcaster for the
Chicago Cubs.
His specialty was creating play-by-play accounts of games
using only basic descriptions that the station received by
wire as the games were in progress
(Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004)
Tony Dungy (68) of the Indianapolis Colts became the first Black
NFL head coach to win a Super Bowl (XLl). The victory marked
the first time a Black head coach had reached the National
Football League’s championship game—one that featured not
just one, but two Black head coaches.
Hall of Fame head coach and NBC Football analyst Tony
Dungy.
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 (below) called
the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn
Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York.