In 1960, Glenn "The Eufaula Kid" Womack participated in a televised match on KTTV, the independent station owned by the Los Angeles Times. KTTV was best known for broadcasting Dodgers away games after the team's move from Brooklyn in 1958. Eufaula's TV appearance happened before the Johnston City tournaments were shown on network television which got me wondering ... When was the first televised billiards match?
Here's an article in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from April 5th, 1948, which describes a televised Boy's Club tournament involving BCA Hall of Fame members Willie Hoppe, Willie Mosconi and Charley Peterson.
I also found a clipping in the Middletown (New York) Times Herald from January 25th, 1941, for an early radio broadcast of the 1941 World 3-Cushion Championships on WOR-Mutual. Willie Hoppe took the title that year with a 16-1 record and a 1.100 average against stiff competition from Jake Schaefer Jr., Jay Bozeman and Welker Cochran--all of whom averaged over a point an inning.