Chess on TV

     I came across an article about a chess program on TV.  I know nothing about the development of television, so I just spent about an hour reading about it.  I was amazed how long tv has been around, but less surprised that it only started to become popular in the 1950s.  This leads me to believe that this must be the earliest example of chess on tv since it dates back to 1951.

     "Chess Review"  of Jan. 1951 published this news item:

      The "Washington Chess Letter" of Dec. 1951 reported the same happening:

     Sam Teitelbaum in the above article also had another first, or one-of-the-firsts.

This city (Salt Lake City) and Milwaukee are believed to be among the few in the United States with full-time employees teaching chess.  Co-ordinator Sam Teitelbaum has free classes five nights a week at boys' and girls clubs and also classes for adults. —Salem Oregon "Statesman Journal" of June 28, 1953

     Teitelbaum, sponsored by  City Commissioner L.C. Romney, was hired by the Salt Lake City Recreation Department to teach chess in the city parks and in the Boys and Girls Clubs. His program was considered a great success.

     Sam Teitelbaum was born on November 29, 1907 in New York and died on September 28, 1994 in Salt Lake City.  He and his wife Marie owned an operated Teitelbaum Floral for 47 years.   Sam was also in the marriage counseling business for 38 years.  Teitelbaum was a close friend of Sammy Reshevsky.

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Does anyone know of other chess tv shows throughout the years?

or even tv special chess coverage?

If I remember correctly, sometime in the sixties, on what was then called the educational station, there was a regular program called Koltanowski on Chess. I would gladly pay for a DVD of it if it were available. Koltanowski once did a pamphlet with some of the material from the TV show.

Sometime in the last few years, Soltis wrote an article about the coverage of the 1972 match. He claimed that there is no longer an existing recording of that coverage. It seems like a great shame if it is true. Perhaps the Koltanowski show has suffered a similar fate.

I wasn't aware Kolty hosted a tv program.  I think the 1972 match was hosted by Shelby Lyman.

Thanks.

                                                1966

The Koltanowski book is still being sold:

https://www.amazon.com/TV-chess-George-Koltanowski/dp/B0007FNRKI

Interesting.  I wonder if the book describes the tv program of maybe includes scripts?

 Jude Acers claims that Kotly was the first person to put chess on tv - http://www.chesslab.com/kolt.html -  Jude Acers is clearly mistaken.

Well there's BBC's Mastergame which was on youtube. They have gone into the DVD business, so may have removed a lot from youtube because of copyright. You can try searching. They were pretty good actually. There are books on Amazon you can get that accompany the series. The graphics seemed quite advanced for the 70's and are accessible even now to the eye.

I downloaded a lot a few years ago. Amongst other players they feature Walter Browne, Korchnoi, Karpov, a young Short and Miles.

I'd never heard of that either (I don't watch tv as a rule).  Thank you.

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I remember Shelby on PBS chanel 13 here, hosting the Fisher Spasky Match. I was glued to those games and the cardboard pieces he moved around the board each time the bell jingled that a move was made..  sweet memories..

If I remember correctly, it is just a collection of a bunch of brief chess items which had been presented in the TV show.

Every Sunday I cut out Shelby's column in the paper next to the comics. (Sorry, that's got nothing to do with TV)   

Ron,just say while you were watching tv 

Ahahahahahahaha   Oh wait! I do have THIS;    chessTV.eu http://www.chesstv.eu/niva1/pe/eng/ChessTV_282eng.htm

I just remembered that a chess radio program was described in the book, Chess Treasury of the Air by Terence Tiller.

I think some radio chess lectures are described in Last Lectures by Jose Raoul Capablanca.