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Category archive: Sports broadcasting

11 May
2013

BT Sport unveils Balding and Kelly as show hosts

Clare Balding: fronting weekly BT Sport show

BT Sport, which will show 38 live Barclays Premier League matches next season, unveiled its team on Thursday from their new headquarters – the media broadcast centre at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

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19 Apr
2013

Franks departure creates vacancy for BBC correspondent

Tim Franks: moving on

The new correspondent will be expected to work across TV, radio and online – including packaging and lives on BBC 1’s Six and Ten O’Clock News

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22 Mar
2013

County cricket goes online through BBC deal

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The ECB and the BBC have announced a new broadcast partnership for county cricket, with live ball-by-ball commentary of every LV=County Championship match available throughout the season

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16 Mar
2013

Cliff Bastin, Frank Broome and a day in Ottery St Mary

All Our Yesterdays: Frank Broome, centre, Cliff Bastin, right, with Anton Rippon in 1984

ANTON RIPPON looks back almost 30 years to a paid assignment for local radio, and an unexpected encounter with an all-time great

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8 Mar
2013

It’s Neville v Stelling v BBC on broadcast awards

Gary Neville: has tackled football punditry for Sky Sports with all the energy he displayed when playing full back for England, and has made the top six in the SJA's Sports Broadcaster of the Year voting

The SJA’s Sports Broadcasting Awards have pitched some of the biggest names in on-screen sports presentation against one another, with three-times Sports Broadcaster Jeff Stelling in the final shortlist alongside his Sky colleague Gary Neville and BBC and C4 anchor Clare Balding

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4 Mar
2013

Protests over Porter’s forced “retirement”

Hugh Porter: the voice of cycling

73-year-old cycling commentator Hugh Porter is the latest to become victim of the BBC Sport’s apparent purge of old men (and women)

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11 Feb
2013

Telegraph’s Kelso gets new job with Sky News

Sky's the limit: Paul Kelso

Sky News has appointed Paul Kelso, a past sports news reporter of the year, as its new sports correspondent. PLus Telegraph appoints Rumsby, and City AM hires Richards

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4 Feb
2013

Magic of the microphone with the golden rings

Former sports minister Kate Hoey presents the BBC's Jonathan Overend with his 2011 Sports Broadcaster of the Year award/Photo by STEVE ROWE

BBC Radio’s JONATHAN OVEREND, the SJA’s sports broadcaster of 2010, on how he and his colleagues enjoy the best job in the world

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28 Jan
2013

2012 sports broadcasting: who gets your vote?

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Voting is now open for SJA members to select their TV and radio sports programmes of 2012 and the sports broadcaster of the year. PHILIP BARKER outlines some of the leading contenders

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9 Dec
2012

BBC has to match judgement on 2012 sports awards

Barbara Slater: in charge of BBC Sport's output

NORMAN GILLER highlights the irony of a journalism prize being awarded to someone for whom the organisers bent the rules, and wonders praises Barbara Slater for adding balance to the BBC’s annual sport review

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