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FOOTBALL Sports Broadcasting History

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If you have Direct TV or Comcast and the right equipment, the National Championship will been shown in 4K HDS.

https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/10/espn-4k/ But like all technology, it took a while to get to this level.

The Beginning of Sports Broadcasting

Sports broadcasting started in 1911 in Lawrence, Kansas. One evening, around 1,000 people gathered together in order to watch a reproduction of the Kansas vs. Missouri football game, all while the game was being played live in Missouri. To do this, Western Union set up a telegraph wire in Columbia, Missouri, the location of the game where the game was actually being played. After each play, several people in Missouri would announce what just happened and mapped it out using a model of a football field. This information was telegraphed back to those waiting in Lawrence, Kansas. This proved to be the first step into the larger world of sports broadcasting as we know it today.
An experimental radio broadcast through telegraph took place in 1919 in Dallas, Texas, however it wasn’t completely live. Instead, it was more of a radio announcer located in Dallas received telegraphs, which would then call out the events as if he were right there.
https://beonair.com/history-of-sports-broadcasting/
 
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