... Televised Buffs baseball games began on KLEE-TV, Channel 2, in 1949, and we watched the games in rapture on 10" screens like the one in the picture. Bill Newkirk did the first TV play-by-play games in '49, but he was replaced by the more remembered ##### Gottlieb in 1950 when Channel 2's KLEE-TV became KPRC-TV. - While Newkirk was behind the TV mike, he was ably assisted by another behind-the-scenes icon of Houston broadcasting history, engineer Bob Green. - Green later worked for years with Gene Elston and Loel Passe on Colt .45s/Astros broadcasts. His tenure was so assured that he acquired a nickname from broadcaster Elston that cloaked him forever as "The Dean of National League Engineers." - Green and Buff TV viewers recall the time when there was only one camera at first, and it was situated behind home plate. Balls were virtually impossible to following in grainy Black & White as they soared into the barely visible outfield. As early viewers, we had to watch the body language of the tiny outfielders to know if a batted ball was caught or not - or wait for ##### Gottlieb to tell us what was going on. Assuming our freedom to discount Joe Carter's recently more symbolic foray into TV broadcasting work for the Cubs, the only actual suicide to occur during a TV baseball game happened in 1951 when a deranged man shot himself to death before the camera while ##### Gottlieb was broadcasting a Buffs-Tulsa Oilers game. - On a cheerier note, special memories must be acknowledged here for Lloyd Gregory and Bruce Layer, who started the first televised weekly "Hot Stove League" talk show in Houston back in 1950 on Channel 2. - Also note that Guy Savage of Channel 13 eventually took over from ##### Gottlieb as the TV voice of Buffs baseball.