# 1970 World Series broadcast in B&W?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970-world-series-broadcast-in-b-w/521978
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [December 20, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970-world-series-broadcast-in-b-w/521978 "2009-12-20T19:25:41Z")
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### Author:  [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970-world-series-broadcast-in-b-w/521978/1 "2009-12-20T19:25:41Z")
MLB Network is showing the 1970 World Series and it is in black and white? Has the color footage been lost or was it only broadcast in black and white? I know the 1969 Super Bowl was broadcast in color and the World Series was a bigger event in 1970 that the Super Bowl.
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### Author:  [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970-world-series-broadcast-in-b-w/521978/2 "2009-12-20T19:44:52Z")
The Mets network has shown various games from the 1969 series, and I think one of them is in B&W and the rest in color. It’s probably just a matter of how they got recorded.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970-world-series-broadcast-in-b-w/521978/3 "2009-12-20T19:59:00Z")
All sporting events were broadcast in color by 1969. Use the “I Dream of Jeannie” cutoff (1966) – it was the last show to be broadcast by NBC in B&W (ABC and CBS lagged a bit behind). But all sporting events were broadcast in color by the mid-60s; they were high-prestige, high-rated shows.
It’s possible the color tapes were lost, but the original broadcasts were in color.
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### Author:  [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970-world-series-broadcast-in-b-w/521978/4 "2009-12-20T20:09:00Z")
The dvd of the 1968 world series is in black and white. I’d like to see it in color. Bob Gibson was amazing.
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### Author:  [@davey77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davey77)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2009, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970-world-series-broadcast-in-b-w/521978/5 "2009-12-20T23:20:25Z")
I caught a (very small) part of that game today, also. There was a side segment about the series that was in color. It showed Sparky Anderson arguing with an umpire during the same game being broadcast. So there must be color footage somewhere.
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### Author:  [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1970-world-series-broadcast-in-b-w/521978/6 "2009-12-20T23:53:56Z")
The tapes that were use for the original broadcast were probably re-used. When you see old sporting events from that era, you are looking at archive tapes which were made at low quality and often in B&W so that the most hours possible could be fit on one tape. Storage space was the problem - if they archived at high quality they would have had no room for all the tapes.