Yes. However, part of the New York area was blacked out because the game didn't sell out. But, officially, you could say it was the first nationally televised game; though not the first televised.
1964 was the first Summer Games televised in the United States
It was a college baseball game.
1947
1947
Back in 1946 the BBC televised live the second half of Barnet's game against Wealdstone from Underhill - the first televised broadcast.
ping pong
1930
It was in 1947
1946
1946
Football was the first US sport to be televised in the UK. It came only two weeks after the first rugby game was broadcast.