A television camera covers the season’s opener between Fordham University and Waynesburg College during NBC’s first telecast football game at Triborough Stadium on Randall’s Island, New York, September 30, 1939. Television did not become a widely used news medium in the United States until the 1950s, but in 1937, nearly 9,000 English households purchased television sets to watch the coronation of King George VI. Also in 1937, the French began construction of a powerful television transmitter in the Eiffel Tower. U.S. networks did not begin including news as a regular part of their programming until 1948, when both the NBC and CBS started offering 15 minutes per day. (© AP/WWP)