Entertainment timeline

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    Entertainment

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

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

  • Charlie Chaplin signed with Essanay for $1,250/week to make 14 films.

  • Development of recording of sound on motion picture film.

  • First commercial radio stations with regularly scheduled broadcasts.

  • RCA established the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

  • Farnsworth transmits first electronic television picture; receives patent.

  • The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) is founded.

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

  • Lou Gehrig appeared on a Wheaties box.

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

  • Wilson Sporting Goods signed golfer Babe Didrickson Zaharias to an endorsement contract for $100,000 per year.

  • Lucille Ball won Emmy Award for Best Comedienne.

  • Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California.

  • Lucille Ball woon Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Continuing Perormance, I Love Lucy.

  • Phil Knight opens Blue Ribbon Sports.

  • Lucille Ball won Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in Comedy Series, I Love Lucy.

  • The Beates split.

  • Walt Disney developed Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

  • Blue Ribbon Sports renamed to Nike.

  • Title IX is enacted, mandating equal access to educational opportunities for men and women.

  • Rich Foods pays $60,000/year for the naming rights to the Buffalo Bills football stadium.

  • John Lennon killed.

  • The US boycotts the Summer Olympics in Moscow.

  • Vince McMahon purchased Capitol Wrestling from father, later called World Wrestling Federation.

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

  • Olympic Park in Atlanta, GA is bombed.

  • Oxygen channel.