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 ...

Verna’s initial thought was to unveil instant replay at the 1963 NFL championship game, but that option was off the table because NBC had the rights to that year’s game.

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 ...

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 ...

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. The giant video tape machine used for the very ...

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.

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 ...

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.

CBS used instant replay for the first time in the Dec. 7, 1963 Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, after Verna developed a method to cue the tape to pinpoint the play he wanted to immediately ...

The instant replay has been a staple of sports broadcasts ever since its debut in the 1963 Army-Navy football game ("Ladies and gentlemen, Army did not score again!" ...