BROOKE GLADSTONE: This weekend’s Super Bowl marks another anniversary, roughly. I'm talking about the Army-Navy game of December 1963, when we saw the very first use of instant replay. Just prior to ...
You don’t tend to think of instant replay as being something that was “invented,” as such. It just seems logical and natural for us to expect that something which is shown on television can, almost ...
On December 7, 1963, Army and Navy squared off in their annual football game, then as now one of the sport's great rivalries. In the fourth quarter, Army quarterback Carl "Rollie" Stichweh faked a ...
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the 1963 Army-Navy game. The game should have been played a week earlier, but it had been pushed back out of respect for recently slain president John F. Kennedy.
Decades before the DVR and years before the first Super Bowl, a young television director decided to try something that would either amaze or confuse TV watchers: the instant replay. With that, Tony ...
This is not live, ladies and gentlemen—Army did not score again!” With those words, sports announcer Lindsey Nelson ushered in the era of instant replay in live TV sportscasting. It was such a ...
It began as a surprise innovation by CBS during the 1963 Army-Navy telecast. Army’s Ken Waldrop plunges over the Navy defensive line to the two-yard line with 18 seconds remaining in the game in ...
Instant replay is an integral part of the modern sports broadcasting experience. Partly because of today’s (relatively) low-cost home theater systems, many sports fans find that at-home viewing beats ...
When Tony Verna was a young CBS News director, he created instant replay during the 1963 Army-Navy football game. His new visual effect changed... Decades before the DVR and years before the first ...