{"id":80798,"date":"2024-01-25T11:10:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T16:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=80798"},"modified":"2024-01-25T11:15:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T16:15:31","slug":"how-nfl-football-came-to-television-in-1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=80798","title":{"rendered":"HOW NFL FOOTBALL CAME TO TELEVISION IN 1956"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sig Mickelson was the first president of CBS News, and it is from that insider&#8217;s view that we get this amazing story.<\/p>\n<p>In only 8 pages, he explains how CBS public affairs management&#8217;s best laid plans to make Sunday afternoons their bull&#8217;s eye for public service programming got shot out of a cannon, and how pro football came to find its new home there. I have read Mr. Mickelson&#8217;s book, <em>&#8220;The Decade That Shaped Television News &#8211; CBS in the 1950s&#8221; <\/em>several times, but this time around, his writing on this major event really popped out, and I felt the best way to share this amazing story with you, is to present these 8 pages from his book for you to read for yourself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80799\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1.png 531w, https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1-212x300.png 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-80800\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2.png 503w, https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-186x300.png 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-80801\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3.png 500w, https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-186x300.png 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-80802\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/4.png 502w, https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/4-188x300.png 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-80803\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/5.png 492w, https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/5-183x300.png 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-80804\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"488\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/6.png 488w, https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/6-182x300.png 182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-80805\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/7.png 495w, https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/7-188x300.png 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-80806\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/8.png 490w, https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/8-191x300.png 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-80807\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/9.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/9.png 495w, https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/9-300x206.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sig Mickelson was the first president of CBS News, and it is from that insider&#8217;s view that we get this amazing story. In only 8 pages, he explains how CBS public affairs management&#8217;s best laid plans to make Sunday afternoons their bull&#8217;s eye for public service programming got shot out of a cannon, and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[783],"class_list":["post-80798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80798"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80831,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80798\/revisions\/80831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}