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Major League Baseball Returns to Its Broadcast Roots on NBC
March 26, 2026
NEW YORK, March 26 [Category: BizMedia] -- NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast, posted the following news:

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Major League Baseball Returns to Its Broadcast Roots on NBC

The First Major League Baseball Broadcast on NBC 

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In 1939, NBC's experimental television station W2XBS - the precursor to WNBC-TV - aired the first-ever Major League Baseball broadcast, a Cincinnati Reds-Brooklyn Dodgers doubleheader, with Red Barber c . . .

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