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1939 Major League Baseball season

August 26 - The first Major League game to be televised occurs, when WXBS-TV broadcasts the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field.

1980 Preakness Stakes

The race took place on May 17, 1980, and was televised in the United States on the ABC television network.

1989 Preakness Stakes

The race took place on May 20, 1989, and was televised in the United States on the ABC television network.

1991 Preakness Stakes

The race took place on May 18, 1991, and was televised in the United States on the ABC television network.

1995 Zapatista Crisis

On February 9, 1995, in a televised special Presidential broadcast, President Ernesto Zedillo announced Subcomandante Marcos to be one Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente, born June 19, 1957 in Tampico, Tamaulipas to Spanish immigrants.

2006–08 Lebanese political protests

October 30, 2006 – In a televised interview on Al-Manar, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned of "street demonstrations" to demand early elections if the National Dialogue conference failed to form a national unity government.

6 Rms Riv Vu

In 1974, Carol Burnett and Alan Alda starred in a televised version that garnered both of them Emmy Award nominations.

Academic Challenge

National Tournament of Academic Excellence, a non-televised national high school competition

Anna Pou case

State Attorney General Charles Foti announced the arrests the next day, at a widely televised news conference.

Ashley Whippet

Ashley first gained notoriety on August 4, 1974 when Stein, then a 19-year-old college student, smuggled him into Dodger Stadium during a nationally televised baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds.

Bet On Soldier: Blood Sport

These deathmatches are broadcast all over the world as a televised sport named "Bet On Soldier", and since has become the favorite form of entertainment with many viewers betting on soldiers.

Biomonitoring

The issue of exposure to environmental chemicals has received attention as a result of televised reports by Bill Moyers for PBS and Anderson Cooper for CNN's "Planet in Peril" series.

Bountiful Blessings

Results would be announced on 29 April 2012 at Resorts World Sentosa during which the award ceremony will be televised 'LIVE' on MediaCorp TV Channel 8.

Buddy Blattner

Blattner turned to broadcasting after his retirement as a player, teaming with Dizzy Dean on St. Louis Browns radio as well as nationally on the Liberty and Mutual networks, and on the televised baseball Game of the Week on ABC (1953–54) and CBS (1955–59).

College rugby

The success of the inaugural 2010 tournament lead to a second tournament in 2011 at PPL Park in Philadelphia, again televised live by NBC.

David Holsinger

It is his largest selling work and has been used in several televised memorial performances in recent years, including commemorative services for the Challenger astronauts, Ronald Reagan, and the fallen heroes of the American armed forces.

Denice Duff

Denice has performed on many nationally televised commercials, most notably the Fruit of the Loom campaign where she was the girl bopping about her bedroom trying to figure out what to wear and then finally flopping on a chair in nothing but her Fruit of the Looms.

Emily Poeschl

She failed to place in the nationally televised pageant, which was won by Tara Conner of Kentucky.

Fisher Field

the 2006 edition was televised nationally on ESPN2 as part of the High School Showcase (it was the last Thanksgiving high school football game ESPN has aired to date).

Forensic speechreading

John Terry was alleged to have made a crude racist remark against Anton Ferdinand in the course of a televised premier league soccer match between Chelsea football club and Queen's Park Rangers.

Francesco Benigno

He has also released CDs, and sang a live duet with singer Marco Masini at the Sanremo Music Festival in 2009, which was televised by Rai Uno.

Fred Luter

During his streetpreaching days Luter observed a need to draw men, particularly fathers, into his evangelistic appeal by urging events which attract male interest, on one occasion, in 1981, hosting a gathering for a pay-per-view televised boxing match between Thomas Hearns and Sugar Ray Leonard.

Greg Lloyd, Sr.

He is also well known for using an expletive in a nationally televised interview with NBC's Jim Gray after Pittsburgh defeated the Indianapolis Colts in the 1995 AFC Championship.

Hot Chelle Rae

On January 29, 2012, the band played at the nationally televised 2012 Pro Bowl pregame ceremonies at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii, again performing the two tracks.

Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004

The song was chosen on February 5, 2004, in voting during the program "Israel Selects a Song" held during a break in a televised Maccabi Tel Aviv Euroleague basketball game at which videos of four songs sung by D'Or were shown.

Juan Manuel García Passalacqua

"Juan Ma", as he was referred by some, participated in a televised program called Medio Día Puerto Rico (Midday Puerto Rico), during the lunchtime hours on Televicentro Puerto Rico in a segment called "La Escuelita" (The Small Schoolhouse).

Leo Scullion

His first senior match was in the 1999 Challenge Tour, and officiated his first televised match in the 2001 Regal Scottish Masters, a tie between Stephen Lee and Patrick Wallace.

Long Beach Opera

Significant LBO productions during Milenski's tenure included Powder Her Face by Thomas Adès, Richard Strauss’ Elektra (which was televised in Germany), Janáček's From the House of the Dead, The Beaumarchais Trilogy and the complete operas of Claudio Monteverdi.

Luke Pasqualino

Pasqualino portrayed the younger self of William "Husker" Adama in the prequel, which was first distributed as a ten-episode online series on Machinima.com starting November 9, 2012, and then aired in early 2013 as a televised film on Syfy.

Marc Iliffe

As well as televised strongman competitions, Marc appeared in a television advertisement for rock group Pulp’s Hits album before Christmas 2002 and had been cast in a film called Transfer by GMV Entertainment along with the boxer Richie Woodhall, in which he was due to play a gangster.

Martín Castillo

Castillo received some exposure in this fight, as it was the first televised bout on the Pay-Per-View (PPV) fight card featuring the first match between boxing superstars Érik Morales and Manny Pacquiao.

MK Lions Arena

Lions' first game at the new venue was played on November 28, 2010, with the home team winning 79-73 against BBL rookies Essex Pirates with the game televised live on SkySports.

Myah Moore

She did not place in the nationally televised pageant, which was won by Susie Castillo of Massachusetts.

Natasha Stefanenko

She has also hosted many programmes, including the 2001 edition of Festivalbar, which is an annual series of televised summer concerts performed by both Italian and international pop groups in town squares throughout Italy; and Italia's Next Top Model in 2009.

Nik Persaud

Persaud has also partaken in a number of televised events, including the 2009 series Late Night Poker.

Penne Dennison

In 1998-1999 she was the original co-host with Jade Gatt on the late night Live Music and News Program Ground Zero, later Joined by Ugly Phil O’Neil and Jackie O, televised live on the Ten Network between 1998-1999.

Ramon Te Wake

In 2005 Te Wake joined King Kapisi in presenting Pasifika 2005 festival, the biggest Polynesian culture festival in the world held in Auckland every year since 1992, it was televised on TV2.

Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside

Under his chairmanship the Anti-Apartheid Movement campaigned against the Thatcher government’s refusal to impose sanctions against South Africa in the 1980s and organised the 1988 ‘Free Mandela’ concert at Wembley Stadium which was televised by the BBC and broadcast around the world.

Shi Yan Xu

On October 1, 2006, the world final was televised in a four-hour live broadcast judged by action star and former Beijing Wushu Team Member Jacky Wu Jing (Sha Po Lang, Tai Chi Master, Legend of Zu) Director Stanley Tong (The Myth, Martial Law, Mr. Magoo) and Director Wang Xiaoshuai (Frozen).

Soham murders

The inspectorate also criticised a "lack of grip" on the investigation, which included nationally televised appeals by footballer David Beckham, and Detective Superintendent David Beck who announced that he had left a message for abductors on Jessica's mobile phone before the case was taken from him.

Sonya Balmores

She placed first runner-up in the nationally televised pageant, which was won by Shelley Hennig of Louisiana.

Sounds Incorporated

Their continuing popularity ensured a stream of work including backing duties at the televised NME awards.

South Dakota State Jackrabbits men's basketball

The team does not have an official television partner, but Jackrabbit games have been televised on Midco Sports Net, Fox College Sports, the Big Ten Network, ESPN2, ESPNU, and local television networks.

Susan Hay

Hay has also donated to many charities as well as hosts the televised Toronto Santa Claus Parade.

SWAT World Challenge

OLN televised the 2007 event which was held 24–28 April close to Little Rock, Arkansas at Camp Robinson (National Guard Base).

The 6th Sense

"The 6th Sense" begins with an introduction in which Common states "the revolution will not be televised, the revolution is here" referencing the famous Gil-Scott Heron song named "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised."

The Dumb Waiter

1987 – Robert Altman directed a made-for-TV feature film version of The Dumb Waiter, starring John Travolta and Tom Conti, filmed in Canada and first televised in the United States on WABC-TV on 12 May 1987, as part of Altman's two-part series entitled Basements; part one is Pinter's first play The Room.

The Pendragons

They also appeared in a televised Royal gala show in Monaco, which included a collaboration with Princess Stéphanie.

Timeline of San Bernardino, California history

The Miss USA Pageant is held in San Bernardino on July 25, and televised on CBS.

W.B. Mason Stadium

On Thursday, October 18, 2012, Stonehill hosted the University of New Haven Chargers in Stonehill's first ever nationally televised football game, broadcast as part of CBS Sports Network's Thursday night Division II game of the week.


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