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It's Thursday, November 3rd, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. A deep dive into two major events that led to the television boom. And a question of what that is meant for the artifice and theatricality of live events. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

In last night's fourth game of the World Series, the Houston Astros produced the first

combined no-hitter in World Series history, tying up the competition with two wins each

for them and the Philadelphia Phillies.

It's turned into quite an exciting affair this year with 12 million people expected to tune in to the final.

That's about three times more people than watched the very first World Series game to be broadcast on TV.

Although considering there were only about 60,000 households

with TV sets in the country at the time, and that broadcast didn't even go out to the whole

country, getting a viewership of almost 4 million was pretty impressive. And that impressive turnout

for the 1947 New York Yankees versus Brooklyn Dodgers was, by some accounts,

the event that truly led to the television boom in America.

Writing in the conversation, communications professor and author of Center Field Shot,

a history of baseball on television, James Walker explains that the TV industry, largely concentrated in New York

City at the time, anticipated that the World Series in 1947 would end up being between

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