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1930s. 1936. 2 November – The BBC opens the world's first regular high-definition television service, from Alexandra Palace. 1937. 21 June – The BBC broadcasts television coverage of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships for the first time. 1938. 2 April – The BBC covers The Boat Race for the first time.
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 ...
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 ...
Alex ScottMBE. Alexandra Virina Scott MBE (born 14 October 1984) is an English sports presenter, pundit, and former professional footballer who mostly played as a right-back for Arsenal in the FA WSL. She made 140 appearances for the England national team and represented Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics .
Football at the Summer Olympics. Association football [ note 1] has been included in every Summer Olympic Games as a men's competition sport, except 1896 (the inaugural Games) and 1932 (in an attempt to promote the new FIFA World Cup tournament). Women's football was added to the official program at the Atlanta 1996 Games. [ 1][ 2]
This is a list of media commentators and writers in the United Kingdom on the sport of Association football. A number of football players have had a second career as writers or commentators. However, many commentators never played the game at a professional level such as Dale Rowlinson and Gaz Mallachan, yet they have gone on to become famous names associated with the game.
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 ...
James Alexander Gordon. James Alexander Gordon (10 February 1936 – 18 August 2014) was a Scottish radio broadcaster, best known for reading out football results on BBC radio. [1] Born in Edinburgh in 1936, [2] as a baby he was paralysed with polio and he spent a large part of his childhood in hospital. [3] He worked in music publishing before ...