On August 26th, 1939, the first televised Major League Baseball game was broadcast on NBC! The broadcast featured a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. Transmitted by W2XBS, which was an experimental NBC station that would become WNBC-TV, the event was a showcase for the technology being debuted at the New York World's Fair. The "box office" for this broadcast was tiny, as there were only about 400 television sets in the entire New York area capable of receiving the signal.
