Sports and entertainment

By krisseg
  • Period: Jan 1, 1550 to

    introduction of outdoor entertainment

  • Paid to attend

    Fans paid to attend a baseball game in the new york city area

  • NCAA Formed

  • Development of recording ofsound motion picture film

  • First commercial radio stations with regularly scheduled broadcasts

  • RCA established the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

  • Farnsworth trasmits first electronic television picture

  • The Columbia Broadcasting System is founded (CBS)

  • Great depression closed nearly 3/4ths of amusement parks

  • Lou Gehrig appered on wheatie

  • First Televisions sold

  • All- american girl professional baseball league

  • Televisions are in over one million homes

  • Babe Didrickson Zaharias Signed with wilson sporting goods

  • The color television is introduced

  • Disneyland opens in california

  • Over 100 million televison sets are in homes around the world

  • Six Flages opens in texas

  • Phil Knight opens Blue Ribbion sports (nike)

  • The magic kingdom in disney world in orlando, florida opened

  • Rich Foods pay $60,000 a year for naming rights to buffalo bills football stadium

  • he U.S boycotts the Summer Olypics in Moscow

  • CNN, the first all news network is launched by Cable

  • Prince Charles and Diana spencer are married on televison

  • Frist IBM personal computer are available for retail sales

  • MTV debuts

  • Michael Jackson's "Thriller" sells 20 million albums

    largest selling record ever

  • First compact disc is relesed

  • The Olympics Becomes commercialized

  • Nintendo home entertainment system is introduced

  • Time and Warner merge to become time warner inc.

  • First television program delivered via internet

  • Olympic park in Atlantic GA gets Bombed

  • Princess Diana is killed in an automobile accident