Events In Sports and Entertainment Marketing

By Wwill

  • NCAA was officaly formed

  • RCA established the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

  • The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) is founded.

  • 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.

  • Disneyland in Anaheim, California opens costing $17 million to build.

  • Six Flags opens in Texas

  • The Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens costing $375 million the build

  • 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.

  • The US boycotts the Summer Olympics in Moscow.

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

  • Prince Charles and Diana Spencer are married on international television

  • Olympic Park in Atlanta, GA is bombed.

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    Events in 2007

  • Nancy Pelosi becomes first female Speaker of the House

  • Indianapolis Colts def. Chicago Bears 29-17 in Super Bowl XLI

  • Bob Barker airs his last episode of The Price is Right.

  • Boston Redsox win the world series

  • The Writers Guild of America goes on strike.