Happy birthday instant replay! On this day in 1963, this television technique made its debut during the annual Army-Navy football game. On a fourth quarter run by Rollie Stichweh, TV viewers were ...

It was on this day in 1963 that CBS first aired an instant replay of a football game. It came during the annual Army-Navy game, which was postponed due to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Verna used instant replay again at the Cotton Bowl between No. 1 Texas and No. 2 Navy on Jan. 1 — Navy lost and didn’t play in another bowl game until 1978 — and it was used during the ...

Less-than-instant replay had been used in sports broadcasting a few years via videotape and the most notable use to that point came just a few days prior to the 1963 Army-Navy game, a contest ...

In 1963, Tony Verna changed the way we watch sports forever when he created "instant replay." He died this week at the age of 81. Robert Siegel talks to freelance writer Anna Clark about his legacy.

This is not live, ladies and gentlemen—Army did not score again!” With those words, sports announcer Lindsey Nelson ushered in the era of instant replay in live TV sportscasting. It was such a ...

To cue up the very first instant replay, rewind to 1963, the year CBS director Tony Verna trucked a half-ton tape machine to the Army-Navy game.

Let's travel back in time to this day in 1963. That's when TV history was made during the Army-Navy football game. The game was broadcast on CBS and it was the first time instant replay was used.

Verna introduced the concept of instant replay during the Army-Navy football game on Dec. 7, 1963. Skip to main content Plus Icon Click to expand the Mega Menu ...

Talking replay. Tony Verna was the director who first brought instant replay to television during the 1963 Army-Navy football game. Now, at age 79, he has secured a patent for another system he ...

Inventor of television instant replay dies 01:19. PALM DESERT, Calif. - Tony Verna, a television director and producer who invented instant replay for live sports 51 years ago, has died. He was 81 ...