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1960 Summer Olympics. CBS paid $394,000 ($3.11 million in 2023) for the exclusive rights to broadcast the Games in the United States. This was the first Summer Olympic games to be telecast in North America. In addition to CBS in the United States, the Olympics were telecast for the first time in Canada (on CBC Television) and in Mexico (through ...
The 1936 Summer Olympics ( German: Olympische Sommerspiele 1936 ), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad ( German: Spiele der XI. Olympiade) and officially branded as Berlin 1936, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona at the 29th IOC Session ...
It is shown to 225 of RCA's licensees on 22 centimeter screens, 343 lines per picture, 30 pictures per second. August – 72 hours of medium-definition (180-line) television broadcasts of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin are seen by approximately 150,000 people in public viewing rooms in Berlin and Potsdam.
First day of BBC television. The world's first scheduled, high-definition (as then defined; meaning 240-line) television programmes were broadcast on 2 November 1936 by the British Broadcasting Corporation. They had been preceded by a number of low-definition BBC test broadcasts, as well as a 180-line Deutscher Fernseh Rundfunk service, from ...
1 June – ITV and the BBC both broadcast The Derby, as it was a "protected event" which could not be broadcast exclusively on either channel. However, the rest of the Epsom events, including The Oaks, are broadcast exclusively on ITV. 25 August – The BBC shows live coverage of a non-UK Olympic Games for the first time. 1961. No events. 1962 ...
29 July – The BBC Television Service begins its coverage of the Olympic Games in London by broadcasting the opening ceremony. From that day until the closing ceremony on 14 August, they will broadcast an average of three and a half hours a day of live coverage of the Games, using a special coaxial cable linking the main venue at Wembley ...
March – The first in-vision Ceefax transmissions are broadcast. 1981. 29 July – The Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer is produced by BBC Television & Radio with an audience of 750 million viewers and listeners in over 60 countries. 4 September – The final edition of Midday News is broadcast.
1906 Intercalated Games. The United States competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. The Americans finished second in the medal table behind the hosts. 359 competitors, 313 men and 46 women, took part in 127 events in 21 sports. [ 1][ 2][ 3]