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Sunday, October 25, 2009
First trial televised in New York
On October 25, 1988, the murder trial of Joel Steinberg became the
first trial to be televised
in New York during a 18-month experiment with televised courtroom proceedings that eventually led to the founding of
Court TV
in July 1991.
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