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  2. Sports Report - Wikipedia

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    Sports Report is one of the longest-running programmes on British radio, and is the world's longest-running sports radio programme. It started on 3 January 1948, and has always been broadcast from 17:00 on Saturday evenings during the football season, for most of its history featuring two readings of the classified football results, although the length of the programme has varied in more ...

  3. Vidiprinter - Wikipedia

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    The BBC and Sky Sports show a vidiprinter during their scores and results programmes. Their vidiprinters appear at the start of the 3 pm kick-offs until just after 5 pm when all the results are in although Sky Sports keeps the vidiprinter onscreen whilst the channel broadcasts its classified check and sometimes it stays on screen when the presenter goes through the updated league tables.

  4. Mark Chapman (broadcaster) - Wikipedia

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    Andrew Mark Chapman (nicknamed Chappers) (born 11 October 1973) is a British television and radio sports presenter. He is BBC Sports ' chief rugby league presenter, fronting BBC's coverage of the Rugby League World Cup and RFL Challenge Cup matches. [ 1] He also does significant football coverage, presenting Match of the Day 2 on BBC One and ...

  5. Julien Laurens - Wikipedia

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    Laurens works for the French newspaper Le Parisien, [1] and has featured regularly on BT Sport [2] Talksport [3] and ESPN [4] [5] as well as contributing regularly to The Times and their podcast The Game, [6] The Guardian [7] and the Daily Star. [8] He has regularly contributed to The Totally Football Show podcast and live shows with James ...

  6. Grandstand (TV programme) - Wikipedia

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    Grandstand was the former flagship sports programme of the British Broadcasting Corporation which was broadcast on Saturday afternoons on BBC1 between 1958 and 2007, and from 1981 on Sunday afternoons as Sunday Grandstand on BBC2, although until 1998 the Sunday edition aired only during the summer. The last editions of Grandstand and Sunday ...

  7. Tim Vickery - Wikipedia

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    Tim Vickery (born 25 May 1965) is a freelance English football journalist, who has lived in Brazil since 1994. [ 1][ 2] He is the South American football correspondent for BBC Sport, contributing to the corporation's output online, on TV and radio. [ 3][ 4] Vickery frequently writes for World Soccer, ESPN, Sports Illustrated and PL Brasil, and ...

  8. Alan Green (broadcaster) - Wikipedia

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    Alan Green (born 25 June 1952) is a Northern Irish former sports commentator, mainly on football but also on golf, rowing and the Olympic Games. [1] Green was one of BBC Radio 5 Live 's most senior football commentators and was a winner of a Sony Radio Academy Award for Sports Broadcaster of the Year. [2] He is noted for his forthright style of ...

  9. Royal Shrovetide Football - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Shrovetide Football Match is a "medieval football" game played annually on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday in the town of Ashbourne in Derbyshire, England. Shrovetide ball games have been played in England since at least the 12th century from the reign of Henry II (1154–89). The Ashbourne game also known as "hugball" has been ...