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Category archive: Sports broadcasting

16 Dec
2011

Arlott anniversary is marked in melancholy

Much-missed master of the mike: John Arlott, who died 20 years ago this week

The 20th anniversary of the death of John Arlott passed this week almost unmarked, with the notable exception of a late-night programme hidden away on BBC4

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30 Nov
2011

Sunderland AFC: video journalist

The club is looking for a talented Video Journalist who will have specific responsibility for the production of all video content across the club’s digital media channels, including SAFC TV – the club’s online TV channel, safc.com – the club’s official website and official mobile applications

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11 Nov
2011

International matches kick off live wire coverage

A team of former BBC Sport journalists who refused to move to Salford is offering a new digital sports content service, featuring “live blogging” which is kicking off this weekend with coverage of Vauxhall-sponsored football internationals.

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28 Sep
2011

BBC: 2011 journalism trainee scheme

The BBC is looking for exceptional people who will be the broadcast journalists of the future. You will be trained in online, TV and radio in a mix of face to face sessions, online learning and work placements around the UK

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27 Sep
2011

BBC: Global news sports editor

The role will oversee the BBC’s sports news and live sport coverage across all BBC Global News platforms. Global News covers all Global News English output, all Global News Languages output (World Service Language Services), as well as www.bbc.com

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22 Sep
2011

C5′s boxing was a black-out rather than knock-out

Tyson Fury takes a blow during last weekend's bout in Belfast

Televised boxing got a standing count on Saturday night, but NORMAN GILLER is more worried about whether new heavyweight hopeful Tyson Fury is in danger of being over-hyped

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8 Sep
2011

The radio man who gave England’s boys a hell of a beating

Bjorn Lillelien in his NRK days

Thirty years ago, a defeat for the England football team sparked an inspired piece of foreign-language commentary, recalled here by PHILIP BARKER

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31 Aug
2011

Athletics’ batty Mel was a catcher of the eye

Mel Batty, cntre, pictured before a road race in Rome in 1981 with the late Chris Brasher, the former president of the SJA, and Randall Northam, the current treasurer

STEVEN DOWNES looks back nearly a quarter of a century to remember Mel Batty, and a time when athletics broadcasters made sure that they got the basics right

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27 Aug
2011

Racy Walker carries baton well for C4 athletics debut

Few dropped balls on C4's first day coverage of the athletics world championships

Who said Channel 4 wasn’t doing reality TV any more? Live television coverage of the athletics world championships from Korea offer us Big Bolt instead of Big Brother

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6 Aug
2011

Crunch time for football coverage and Sunday sales

Football League

Will Sunday newspapers lose their newly won readers if they cannot report on the new football season? And Ken Bates issues another media ban at Leeds United

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