One camera was placed behind home plate, in the second tier of seating, while another was positioned near the visitors' dugout, on the third-base side.
Many notable and famous broadcasters such as, Vin Scully, Red Barber, Harry Caray, Ernie Harwell, and Mel Allen.
For this reason, Major League Baseball teams began televising games which attracted a whole new audience to the ballparks.
Daytime scheduling gave the Cubs a decided edge, as Wrigley didn't have lights, so kids came home from school, had a sandwich, and turned the TV on.
On November 8, 1950, Commissioner Happy Chandler and player reps agreed on the split of the TV-radio rights from the World Series.
It came after a hit by Jim McAnany of the Chicago White Sox ended a no-hitter by the Yankees' Ralph Terry.
Since the game was being videotaped, broadcaster Mel Allen asked director Terry Murphy to play a tape of McAnany's hit over the air.
The telecast included portion of a contest between the Chicago Cubs vs. the Philadelphia Phillies from Wrigley Field with Jack Brickhouse commentating.
That year, ABC provided the first-ever nationwide baseball coverage with weekly Saturday broadcasts on a regional basis.
Some time later, Bill White became the first black man to regularly do play-by-play work for Major League Baseball.
[10] Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, who felt that baseball could attract a larger audience by featuring a prime time telecast (as opposed to a mid-afternoon broadcast, when most fans either worked or attended school), pitched the idea to NBC.
On October 18, 1977, ABC's Bill White became the first African American broadcaster to preside over the presentation of the Commissioner's Trophy at the conclusion of the World Series.
In 1985, NBC's telecast of the All-Star Game out of the Metrodome in Minnesota was the first program to be broadcast in stereo by a TV network.
In 1990, CBS Sports' Lesley Visser became the first female to cover the World Series, serving as their lead field reporter.
For this particular game, Fox introduced "Catcher-Cam" in which a camera was affixed to catchers' masks in order to provide unique perspectives of the action around home plate.
On March 31, 1998, NBC affiliate KXAS presented the first non-experimental high-definition broadcast of a regular-season game, an Opening Day contest between the Chicago White Sox and the Texas Rangers.
[16][17] 2009 was the first time that Baseball Hall of Fame election ceremony was broadcast live, with MLB Network televising the event.
[19] For the first time ever, in 2010, the MLB season opener was televised live in China over five broadcasters reaching nearly 300 million fans.
The game was played on April 4, 2010, between the Boston Red Sox and the reigning World Series champion New York Yankees.
[21] On August 30, 2015, Mendoza filled in for suspended color commentator Curt Schilling for the Cubs-Dodgers game on Sunday Night Baseball.
[22] ESPN began broadcasting KBO League games in May 2020, as the MLB season was delayed and shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
[25] On July 20, 2021, Melanie Newman was the play-by-play announcer as part of the first all-female broadcast team, who called the Baltimore Orioles vs. Tampa Bay Rays game for YouTube.
[26] On September 29, 2021, ESPN aired the first nationally televised Major League Baseball broadcast to be called entirely by women.
[27] Melanie Newman and Jessica Mendoza called the game in Los Angeles between the Dodgers and San Diego Padres.