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...televised weather show. Youle mentioned that he had taken a three-months course in meteorology in the Army and got the job. By last week the job had grown to two local weather shows, a 45-second spot twice a week on John Cameron Swayze's network telecast (TIME, June u), and had boosted Weatherman Youle's salary to $40,000 a year...
...first color telecast of a baseball game, CBS unloaded its cameras last week at Ebbets Field. After watching the game (Dodgers, 8; Braves, 1) over a color receiver at CBS' Manhattan headquarters, Herald Tribune Sport Columnist Red Smith reported...
...After thinking it over for a month, the University of Pennsylvania decided to be a good boy and play with its Ivy League pals. Penn, with its eye on the cashbox, had told the world it would telecast all its home football games this fall-in spite of the N.C.A.A. decision that only one game each week should be shown in each television area. Whereupon several Ivy League colleges swore they would drop Penn from their schedules...
...ideal end result would be a limited-telecast situation in which all colleges playing in one section would receive a share of the high television-intake of the Big Game. Until the trial period withered away, however, no college could be televised more than twice--once at home and once away--and 60 percent of the TV profit would go to the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center to pay for a study of the nation-wide effects of the trial...
Fair on April 30, 1939, Sarnoff made the first U.S. commercial telecast with the words: "Now at last we add sight to sound...