NBC, probably the biggest backers of the IOC having paid $894 million for broadcast rights, will cover at least 10 sports at the Beijing Olympics from…
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Month: July 2008
Join BT Vision and SJA for football debate at Emirates
BT Vision, sponsors of the Sports Journalists’ Association, are staging a special pre-season debate on the future of football on television in t…
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Rugby players’ association appoints press chief
BOA: rowing media day
Sweet ‘scripture’ of cricket writing
Award-winning SJA member Duncan Hamilton has published his first book since the 2007 William Hill Sports Book of the Year
Hamilton, author of the B…
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Farnborough flies high at 60
The SJA is not the only body celebrating its 60th birthday this year. The Farnborough Air Show highlights its 60th year this weekend with special cele…
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Brighton’s weekly sports paper to close
Brighton’s weekly Sports Argus paper is to close, as Newsquest, the company which runs it, also cuts 10 jobs from the south coast’s evenin…
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BOA: Badminton media day
The British Olympic badminton team, including Gail Emms and Donna Kellogg, will be available at the NIA, Birmingham, on Wednesday, July 23. This will …
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Broadcasters hit China’s great wall of bureaucracy
The world’s broadcasters, including the BBC, and the IOC are pushing China to keep its promises and open up Tiananmen Square to more hours of l…
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Bryan Cowgill
Bryan Cowgill, the BBC’s first head of sport and the man attributed with devising the slow motion replay for use on Match of the Day, has died, …
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