[DOC] [TLE] First televised football game featured Fordham, Waynesburg in 1939 ... [PAR] Sep 29, 2015 ... This wasn't the first sports broadcast utilizing the new technology. Earlier that 
year, NBC televised a baseball game between Columbia and Princeton. ... Later 
on in the year, NBC carried both NFL and other college games. ... and 
dramatization did not translate so well with audiences on the new medium. [DOC] [TLE] 1939 in television - Wikipedia [PAR] The year 1939 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of 
television-related ... May 17  The first baseball game (Princeton University vs. ... 
September 30  The first televised college football game, Fordham University vs 
Waynesburg College, at Randall's ... Sports Review (UK), April 30, 1937, 1939. [DOC] [TLE] Broadcasting of sports events - Wikipedia [PAR] The broadcasting of sports events is the live coverage of sports as a television 
program, ... The first sports event broadcast in the United Kingdom was a Rugby 
Union ... the United States' first televised sporting event, a college baseball game 
.... League football game being shown on free-to-air television until much later 
that... [DOC] [TLE] Baker Field: Birthplace of Sports Television - Columbia College [PAR] On May 17, 1939 -- a mere 60 years ago -- televising a regular athletic event was 
tried for the first time. A Columbia-Princeton baseball game at Baker Field was... [DOC] [TLE] GORDON WHITE: TV Baseball Celebrates 70 Years | Sports ... [PAR] May 17, 2009 ... That initial baseball telecast, which was also the first sports telecast in the ... It 
was played, May 17, 1939, at Columbia's Baker Field situated high above the ... 
But it was primarily shown for promotional purposes in the RCA ... event, there 
was a tie so that the first televised baseball game lasted 10 innings. [DOC] [TLE] Sports and Television - Museum of Broadcast Communications [PAR] "Television got off the ground because of sports," reminisced pioneering 
television sports director Harry Coyle. ... medium, and aired sports as a means of 
boosting demand for television as a medium. ... The first televised sporting event 
was a college baseball game between Columbia and Princeton in 1939, covered 
by one... [DOC] [TLE] Technological Innovations in Sports Broadcasting - Engineering and ... [PAR] Sep 28, 2015 ... The first radio broadcast of a baseball game occurred in Pittsburgh on August 5, 
1921. ... The first baseball telecast was a college match between Columbia 
University and Princeton, broadcast in 1939 from Columbia's Baker Field. .... to 
power  marked the first live television coverage of a sports event. [DOC] [TLE] "Baseball on Television: The Formative Years, 1939-51. (Articles ... [PAR] (1) Despite this, most histories of the game see television gaining prominence ... 
from before the first one-camera telecast of a college game in May 1939 to the 
first ... The first image of baseball on television is nestled in what could easily be 
...... Baseball--Media Coverage; Baseball--History; Sports Television Programs--
... [DOC] [TLE] Advertising in Sports Television - Western Connecticut State University [PAR] Television in America was born at the opening ceremonies of the 1939 World's ... 
Since the advent of radio Americans took to this medium for news and 
entertainment. ... Some of which were the first professional sporting event 
televised in America ... and the first professional football game between the 
Brooklyn Dodgers and... [DOC] [TLE] "Bring the Fan to the Game:" Football, Baseball, and the ... [PAR] This thesis analyzes the growing symbiosis of the sport-television ..... about radio 
because they feared the medium's broadcasts would cut into ticket sales. ... 
broadcasting milestones from the first half of the twentieth century, the ...... The 
first televised sporting event was a Princeton-Columbia college baseball game in
. 1939. [DOC] [TLE] Sports on Television: CQR [PAR] Television coverage of sports has come a long way since May 17, 1939, when a 
single ... Reviewing this, the first sports event televised in the United States, the 
New York Times said ...

Question: A 1939 college baseball game was the first sports event shown on this medium
Answer: television