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 m…
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Category: Sports broadcasting
Cliff Bastin, Frank Broome and a day in Ottery St Mary
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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It’s Neville v Stelling v BBC on broadcast awards
The SJA's Sports Broadcasting Awards have pitched some of the biggest names in on-screen sports presentation against one another, with three-times Spo…
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Protests over Porter’s forced “retirement”
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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Telegraph’s Kelso gets new job with Sky News
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 …
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Magic of the microphone with the golden rings
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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2012 sports broadcasting: who gets your vote?
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 outlin…
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BBC has to match judgement on 2012 sports awards
NORMAN GILLER highlights the irony of a journalism prize being awarded to someone for whom the organisers bent the rules, and wonders praises Barbara …
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C4 lands a coup in signing up Balding for racing
The London Olympics were won by Girl Power, among the medallists and the broadcasters, says NORMAN GILLER…
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“Should we send a Jew to cover the Berlin Olympics?”
Television and radio sports commentators, lacking the luxury of time and sub-editors, are prone to error, it is fair to say. But as ANTON RIPPON highl…
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