English football on television has been broadcast since Since the establishment of the Premier League in , English football has become a very lucrative industry. The BBC started its television service in , although it was nearly a year before the very first televised match of football was screened — a specially-arranged friendly match between Arsenal and Arsenal Reserves at Highbury on 16 September In October , the first live televised football match was broadcast by the BBC from Barnet's home ground Underhill. Twenty minutes of the game against Wealdstone were televised in the first half and thirty five minutes of the second half before it became too dark. However, coverage of football television did not expand and for the next two decades the only matches screened were FA Cup finals and the odd England v.

John Logie Baird gave the world's first public demonstration of a working television system on 26 January at his laboratory in London. The BBC started its television service in and carried out its first experiment in covering football on 16th September when it broadcast part of a specially arranged game that took place between Arsenal and Arsenal Reserves. This was followed by showing the international match, between England and Scotland on April 9, Even so, far more people watched the game in the stadium as only around 10, people at the time owned television sets. For technical reasons, only games in London could be shown on television.

Tuesday marked the 80th anniversary of the first televised NFL game, a regular-season matchup between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Eagles on October 22, The stats from the game's box score are not so readily available, but those of the NBC broadcast crew are. There was just one announcer, Allen Skip Walz, and eight members of the production staff. The broadcast utilized two cameras and reached a worldwide audience of 1, viewers. The picture would get darker and darker, and eventually it would go completely blank, and we'd revert to a radio broadcast.

It is hard to imagine that football on television — a staple in today's American culture — started with such humble beginnings. On Sept. The game was meant to be somewhat of a warm-up for Fordham, a college football power at the time. One small sentence in the story from Randalls Island turned out to be the beginning of something much bigger:. But it made no further mention of the fact that a television camera was there and the game was broadcasted over the air.