Sports & Entertainment Marketing

By jtsavage3

  • Baseball

    Fans paid to attend a baseball game between two teams in the New York City area at Fashion Rack Course in Queens.

  • NCAA

    National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) was officially formed to govern collegiate athletics.

  • Motion Pictures have sound

    Development of recording of sound on motion picture film.

  • Radio Brodcasts

    First commercial radio stations with regularly scheduled broadcasts.

  • RCA Establishes NBC

    RCA established the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

  • TV gets patent

    Farnsworth transmits first electronic television picture; receives patent.

  • CBS is Born

    The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) is founded.

  • Stock Market Crash crashes amusement park industry

    The Stock Market Crash leads to the Great Depression closing nearly three-fourths of amusement parks.

  • Wheaties

    Lou Gehrig appeared on a Wheaties box.

  • TV is sold

    First Television is sold

  • Women in Baseball

    All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was formed due to many Major League Baseball players serving in WWII.

  • TV's in millions of homes

    Televisions are in over one million homes.

  • Color TV

    Color television is introduced.

  • Nike is Born

    Phil Knight opens Blue Ribbon Sports. In 1972, the name is changed to Nike.

  • Olympic Boycott

    The US boycotts the Summer Olympics in Moscow.

  • Olympics commercialization

    The Olympics becomes commercialized. Peter Ueberoth helps to make the Olympics profitable

  • Nintendo sets off video game revolution

    Nintendo home entertainment system is introduced

  • Olympic Park bombing

    Olympic Park in Atlanta, GA is bombed.