According to Business Insider. com, in 1939 the first television broadcast came to life in America. It was a college baseball game between the Princeton Tigers and the Columbia Lions and was broadcast on NBC. That college baseball, however, was only available to 400 televisions across the country. In 1955 the first color sports broadcast appeared on TV, but the game was not baseball but tennis. Nationwide broadcasting of sporting events did not occur until 1982 due to broadcast rights. In 1994 people could watch any game, anywhere. Then in 1999, TiVo and DVR entered the television scene allowing people to watch sports whenever they wanted (Nachman). Radio broadcasts have been around longer than television broadcasts, but once people knew they could watch the game on television, they became
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