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TV Instant Replay Inventor Tony Verna Dies

The Associated Press | by TVNewsCheck

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 air again. He said he was looking for a way to fill those boring gaps between plays during a football telecast. Verna was 81.