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Going Places
Published 7 October 2022
The roving eye of the television camera can get anywhere these days, bringing sport and pageantry directly to your home
Factsheet 1966: Independent Television Programmes
Published 16 August 2018
An introduction to Independent Television programming in 1966
Let’s Go… again!
Published 8 January 2018
⧉ Alpha’s Saturday sports and features programme ‘Let’s Go’ returns for a second series in 1960
Silence in Sport?
Published 3 October 2017
Should commentators just shut up? The TVTimes asks Southern’s team in 1965
Formula won
Published 29 July 2011
Aside from those wanting Rupert Murdoch’s influence to be curtailed, the News Corporation phone hacking saga so far hasn’t been bad news for BSkyB either, despite the fact that it’s…
Harry Carpenter
Published 22 March 2010
The news of the death of BBC commentating stalwart Harry Carpenter brought back a happy memory of meeting this delightful man at the Open Golf Championship when it came to…
Changing the perspective
Published 28 January 2010
BBC spent £250,000 for better view of Vienna at Euro 2008 It has to be said that the general headline-grabbing tone of this Guardian article is edging dangerously close to…
And that’s why I don’t like cricket
Published 18 December 2008
The battle of what sports the BBC should or should not cover is one which will, inevitably, never draw any consensus.