[2] This was also the first regular season of the televised Major League Baseball Game of the Week, originally broadcast on ABC.
The final day of the scheduled regular season was on September 27, which saw all sixteen teams play, continuing the trend from 1946.
At first, ABC hesitated at the idea of a nationally televised regular season baseball program, but gave Scherick the green light to sign up teams.
Prior to the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, antitrust laws only allowed the networks to make deals with individual teams instead of pooling rights directly from a central league authority.
[27] To make matters worse, Major League Baseball barred the Game of the Week from airing within fifty miles of any big-league city.