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Major League Baseball (MLB) has been broadcast on American television since the 1950s, with initial broadcasts on the experimental station W2XBS, the predecessor of the modern WNBC in New York. The World Series was televised on a networked basis since 1947, with regular season games broadcast nationally since 1953.
Aug 26, 2012 · Ten years, more than 25,000 live games and millions of subscribers later, MLB.TV is the most widely distributed – accessible on thousands of computers, mobile phones, tablets and connected devices with one subscription – and successful live video subscription product in digital media.
Aug 29, 2022 · Twenty years after MLB became the first professional sports league to livestream a regular-season game, MLB.TV's steady ascent continues. This season, it’s on pace for 11 billion minutes watched by September, after reaching 10 billion minutes for the first time over the course of last season.
On April 16, 1948, Chicago's WGN-TV (run by Jake Israel) broadcast its first big-league game. Jack Brickhouse called the Chicago White Sox ' 4–1 victory over the Chicago Cubs in an exhibition game at Wrigley Field .
May 24, 2023 · The most-watched games on MLB.TV now garner many, many times more viewers than the first MLB.TV game, Yankees-Rangers on Aug. 26, 2002. That game -- which made Major League Baseball the first professional sports league to live-stream a regular-season game -- had 30,000 viewers.
Major League Baseball on television in the 1960s. In 1960, ABC returned to baseball broadcasting with a series of late-afternoon Saturday games. Jack Buck [1] and Carl Erskine [2][3] were the lead announcing crew for this series, which lasted one season. [4] ABC typically did three games a week.
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May 18, 2022 · In 1953, ABC executive Edgar J. Scherick proposed broadcasting a Saturday “Game of the Week” (GOTW) program as TV sport’s first network series aired during MLB’s regular season. Scherick’s bosses were initially skeptical, wondering exactly how many TVs across America the program would reach and how many viewers they would draw.
