The U.S. Census Bureau, promoting the Famous First Facts area of its website at www.census.gov, has observed that today (Friday) marks the 68th anniversary of the first televised basketball game. The bureau noted that it was telecast on February 27, 1940 over NBC's experimental station in New York, W2XBS. The game, in which Pittsburgh beat Fordham 50-37, was played at Madison Square Garden.

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