Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.- 1. Introduction: Why BBC Television Sport?.- 2. Pre-War TV Sport.- 3. Lobby, Dimmock and the Monopoly of Post-War Televised Sport.- 4. Innovation, Eurovision and the World Cup.- 5. Televising Test Cricket.- 6. Sportsview: Television’s Sports Page.- 7. Cowgill, Coleman and Grandstand.- 8. Prestige of the Nation: International ‘Rugger’.- 9. The Grand National.- 10. Boxing and The Power of Promoters.- 11. Golf: From Minority Interest to Commercial Megolith.- 12. Today’s Sport on your Screen Tonight: Sport Special and Match of the Day.- 13. From Eurovision to Global BBC Sport: Sweden, Rome, Tokyo.- 14. Wimbledon, Colour and the Open Era.- 15. 'They Think it’s All Over...': 1966 and the New Era of TV Sport.

About the Author

Richard Haynes is Professor of Communications, Media and Culture and Member of the Stirling Media Research Institute at the University of Stirling, UK. He is author or co-author of several books on the relationships between sport and the media including The Football Imagination: The Rise of Football Fanzine Culture (1995), Football in the New Media Age (2003) and Power Play: Sport, the Media and Popular Culture (2009).

Reviews

“The book … has been enriched by the presence of the BBC, and it has also been affected in numerous ways by the presence of cameras in the rules, the engagements of audiences and lure of advertisers. Readers interested in the evolution of sport, social and cultural history and the development of technology will be similarly enriched by this nostalgic and worthy work.” (Jon Gemmell, The International Journal of the History of Sport, March 17, 2019)