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All the great events and personalities are chronicled,’ Murphy explains, ‘as well as sharp insights into what it's been like to be an insider on the programme either from the studio or in the field dealing with the various challenges of a fast-moving live radio sports programme when you never know what's coming up next.’ Sports Service". Radio Times. Vol.164, no.2128 (London & South Easted.). BBC Publications. 20 August 1964. p.13 . Retrieved 18 February 2018– via BBC Genome Project.
Amongst the list of correspondents that first week of 1948 was John Arlott. In those days he also covered football and reported from Portsmouth’s victory over Huddersfield. If that happens, I would certainly hope we can last another 25 years, to get Sports Report to a century. I was a mewling, puking baby when it launched, but it is redolent of my whole life and its success and staying power means an enormous amount to me. Thankfully still in use today, despite a few, shall we say ‘misguided’ efforts to change it for something more contemporary, it evokes a million memories of tea time listening to what used to be known as the ‘wireless’ Never mind, Sports Report went from strength to strength, consider the names who have presented the programme, amongst the finest voices on sport this country has ever produced.Jim Rosenthal is set to be your host once for the British Sports Journalism Awards again on March 6.
First broadcast in 1948, Sports Report is the longest-running radio sporting programme in the world and one of the BBC's hardy perennials. Pat Murphy has been a reporter on the programme since 1981 and here he sifts comprehensively through the experiences of his contemporaries and those who made their mark on Sports Report in earlier decades. He hears from commentators, reporters, producers, presenters and the production teams who regularly achieved the broadcasting miracle of getting a live programme on air, without a script, adapting as the hour of news, reaction and comment unfolded.
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On a Saturday, when you hear the signature tune at 5pm, your first thought is often 'bloody hell, is that the time already, I have barely written a thing'.
There had been exploratory meetings the previous year but the Sports Writers’ Association was made reality in April 1948. Sports Report has survived at least two major shake ups in BBC Radio. In 1967, the old network was swept away to be replaced by Radio 1, 2, 3 and 4.This theBBC Light programme,here is Raymond Glendenning to introduce a new Saturday feature for sportsmen, Sports Report,” the announcer said. Bloomsbury Sport has scooped the "definitive" celebration bookof the BBC's "Sports Report" radio programme, written by its longest-serving contributorPat Murphy.
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