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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Mar 23, 2024 13:35:37 GMT -5
The first televised NCAA men’s basketball championship game took place on March 20 of what year? Hint: It was tape-delayed. Answer: 1954. La Salle beat Bradley, 92–76, in the title game. The tape-delayed broadcast of the game was carried by whichever local stations decided to pay the NCAA’s $7,500 syndication fee. That’s about $87,000 today. CBS now pays about $1 billion per year to air the men’s tournament. www.oah.org/tah/extras/march-went-mad-gradually-and-inadvertently/The NCAA’s title game made its initial appearance on national television in 1954, but it was available only where local stations paid a syndicator for access. The NCAA charged the syndicator a mere $7,500 for rights. Local stations showed the championship contest between LaSalle College and Bradley University as a delayed broadcast. Even in LaSalle’s home town of Philadelphia the game was not aired until 11:10 p.m., after prime time programs such as boxing and the Martha Raye Show.
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Post by diehardexplorer on Mar 23, 2024 16:40:47 GMT -5
The first televised NCAA men’s basketball championship game took place on March 20 of what year? Hint: It was tape-delayed. Answer: 1954. La Salle beat Bradley, 92–76, in the title game. The tape-delayed broadcast of the game was carried by whichever local stations decided to pay the NCAA’s $7,500 syndication fee. That’s about $87,000 today. CBS now pays about $1 billion per year to air the men’s tournament. www.oah.org/tah/extras/march-went-mad-gradually-and-inadvertently/The NCAA’s title game made its initial appearance on national television in 1954, but it was available only where local stations paid a syndicator for access. The NCAA charged the syndicator a mere $7,500 for rights. Local stations showed the championship contest between LaSalle College and Bradley University as a delayed broadcast. Even in LaSalle’s home town of Philadelphia the game was not aired until 11:10 p.m., after prime time programs such as boxing and the Martha Raye Show.
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Post by charmcityexplorer on Mar 23, 2024 18:42:01 GMT -5
I’m too young to remember the Martha Raye Show, but (sadly) old enough to remember her in the Polident commercials.
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Post by Gnocchi on Mar 24, 2024 17:09:38 GMT -5
The first televised NCAA men’s basketball championship game took place on March 20 of what year? Hint: It was tape-delayed. Answer: 1954. La Salle beat Bradley, 92–76, in the title game. The tape-delayed broadcast of the game was carried by whichever local stations decided to pay the NCAA’s $7,500 syndication fee. That’s about $87,000 today. CBS now pays about $1 billion per year to air the men’s tournament. www.oah.org/tah/extras/march-went-mad-gradually-and-inadvertently/The NCAA’s title game made its initial appearance on national television in 1954, but it was available only where local stations paid a syndicator for access. The NCAA charged the syndicator a mere $7,500 for rights. Local stations showed the championship contest between LaSalle College and Bradley University as a delayed broadcast. Even in LaSalle’s home town of Philadelphia the game was not aired until 11:10 p.m., after prime time programs such as boxing and the Martha Raye Show.
Viewership in Indiana may have been otherwise engaged on March 20, 1954 |
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