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Speaker 1: This Day in History Class is a production of I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hello everybody, I'm Eves and you're tuned into

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Speaker 1: This Day in History Class, a show where we travel

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Speaker 1: back in time one day at a time. Today is

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Speaker 1: December seven. The day was December seven, nineteen sixty three.

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Speaker 1: Instant replay debut during the CBS broadcast of the Army

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Speaker 1: Navy football game in Philadelphia. In George ritz Laugh, the

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Speaker 1: producer for the broadcast Hockey Night in Canada, used a

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Speaker 1: wet film or kinescope replay on a goal. The replay

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Speaker 1: was not instant and he never used the process again,

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Speaker 1: but it was a memorable moment in sports broadcasting. But

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Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty three, Tony Verna, a director at CBS,

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Speaker 1: wanted to try out a new videotape instant replay system

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Speaker 1: at the college football game between the Army Black Knights

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Speaker 1: and the Navy Midshipman. He wanted to be able to

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Speaker 1: fill in lulls in action and to give viewers a

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Speaker 1: better view of what was actually happening on the field.

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Speaker 1: Eager to improve the at home audiences viewing experience, Verna

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Speaker 1: developed a system that used a videotape machine to produce

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Speaker 1: an instant replay. The Army Navy game was supposed to

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Speaker 1: take place a week earlier, but it was postponed because

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Speaker 1: of the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy

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Speaker 1: had been slated to attend the Army Navy game. Verna

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Speaker 1: was not sure whether the system would work during the game,

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Speaker 1: and he didn't tell the CBS crew about his plans

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Speaker 1: to try it out until the day of the game.

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Speaker 1: The tape machine that Verna used was an Ampex VTR

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Speaker 1: one thousand. The instant replay device relied on tape decks

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Speaker 1: that weighed around twelve hundred pounds and were the size

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Speaker 1: of refrigerators. It was housed in a truck. There were

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Speaker 1: technical difficult He's as he tried to get the right footage.

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Speaker 1: Because Verna couldn't get a new role of videotape, he

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Speaker 1: had to use tape that had an episode of I

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Speaker 1: Love Lucy on it. Some of the replay tests showed

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Speaker 1: flashes of Lucille ball space, but in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 1: Army quarterback Carl Rowley Stitchway scored on a one yard

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Speaker 1: touchdown run. Seconds after the touchdown happened, Verna played the

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Speaker 1: footage again announcer Lindsay Nelson, concerned that viewers would be

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Speaker 1: confused by the replay, confirmed that Army had not actually scored. Again.

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Speaker 1: The original tape that stored the footage has since been lost.

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Speaker 1: The technology was prohibitively expensive for some schools, but more

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Speaker 1: broadcasts began using instant replay, and slow motion and freeze

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Speaker 1: frame were introduced. Instant replay also began to be used

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Speaker 1: by sports officials for plays or calls that were dubious.

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Speaker 1: This use of the technology has proven controversial at times,

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Speaker 1: and different sports league have different rules on how replay

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Speaker 1: can be used during a game. I'm Eve Steffcote and

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