- 1. Broadcasting the FA Cup Final ...
- (TV watch)
- ... it’s odd to feel nostalgic about old FA Cup final broadcasting marathons. Yet if it hadn’t happened already, this was the year when the Cup final became self-referential. For weeks ahead ESPN advertised ...
- Created on 21 July 2011
- 2. Editorial: The strength of the Football League is being diminished by TV interference
- (Stories)
- ... rather than simply consumers. The top divisions in Spain, Italy and France have all sold their next domestic broadcasting packages for far more than the EFL (between £500m and £890m annually over three ...
- Created on 21 January 2019
- 3. From David Beckham to Olly Lee – are goals from the halfway line over-rated?
- (Stories)
- ... David Forde. The sheer popularity of these goals, then, is undeniable. But as with all puzzlingly successful modern phenomena, from the broadcasting career of Jake Humphrey to the Stereophonics selling ...
- Created on 01 October 2018
- 4. WSC 374 out now
- (Stories)
- ... | Other teams in Athens | @NevilleSouthall | West Ham's confused protests | Ossett management | broadcasting's new deal | Paul Stewart tells of his abuse | Aberdeen's stadium plans lack ambition | Rus ...
- Created on 08 March 2018
- 5. Remembering Charles Buchan’s Football Monthly – the pioneering football magazine
- (Stories)
- ... in 1952, later described Buchan’s prose as “plodding” and his broadcasting as “pedestrian”. Yet Glanville admits that a whole generation of fans, hungry for any media coverage at all, hung on to his every ...
- Created on 22 January 2018
- 6. WSC 362 out now
- (Stories)
- April issue available online The new WSC is out now, available to order from the WSC shop. This month we take a look at the Fan TV boom and whether the mainstream media should be worried, while ...
- Created on 07 March 2017
- 7. Iceland’s other national team also deserve recognition
- (Stories)
- ... which has the broadcasting rights to league games. There were 12 men, almost identically dressed. It wasn’t even a fair representation of their coverage as Helena Olafsdottir, a former national team ...
- Created on 28 June 2016
- 8. I’ll Tell You What…
- (Players)
- ... he is also in some way popular. His broadcasting career is flourishing and all those producers and editors clearly value what he brings to television and radio. Why is this? Perhaps there’s a clue in this ...
- Created on 15 June 2016
- 9. Have Mic Will Travel
- (General)
- ... goals are flying in, how to inject excitement into a 0-0, what makes a good broadcasting voice… There is precisely no information of how games are allocated to commentators or any other behind-the-scenes ...
- Created on 09 December 2015
- 10. The Game Of Our Lives
- (General)
- ... was a transformative project that Rupert Murdoch must have thought was a ruse or a booby-trap. But no, here it was on the eve of transnational satellite broadcasting: a cleansed and modernised infrastructure ...
- Created on 12 January 2015
- 11. Greece & Ivory Coast preview ~ World Cup 2014
- (World Cup 2014)
- ... ian national team to win a major trophy, the 1992 Africa Cup of Nations. Greek TV is in chaos following last year's controversial closure of ERT, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. In theory, NERIT ...
- Created on 14 June 2014
- 12. Brazil preview ~ World Cup 2014
- (World Cup 2014)
- ... Brazilian versions of Fox Sports and ESPN. For Seleção matches, most will plump for broadcasting giant Globo, who are likely to wheel out excitable commentator Galvão Bueno. Ronaldo has been known to ...
- Created on 12 June 2014
- 13. Weekly Howl 19-07-13
- (2013)
- ... nd squad number has surely reached a nadir with SD19." --- from Nigel Downs "Norwich City had a bad run last season but it wasn't this bad." --- from Graham Waite "Football broadcasting newcom ...
- Created on 25 July 2013
- 14. Sit Down And Cheer
- (General)
- A history of sport on TV by Martin Kelner John Wisden & Co, £18.99 Reviewed by David HarrisonFrom WSC 311 January 2013 Buy this book Having worked in broadcasting, I'm painfully aware that thos ...
- Created on 15 January 2013
- 15. Why always so strange?
- (TV watch)
- Simon Tyers tries to get his head around some strange happenings in football broadcasting This was a strange month. After Sky's build-up to the second leg of Arsenal's Champions League tie against AC Mil ...
- Created on 01 May 2012
- 16. Common ground
- (Editorials)
- ... any future discussion about Premier League clubs gaining control of their own overseas broadcasting rights. Last October Liverpool's managing director Ian Ayre suggested that English clubs should be free ...
- Created on 01 April 2012
- 17. TV Times
- (Business & finance)
- ... broadcasting in this country. Britain's TV viewing is already starting to fragment from the more traditional broadcasting model. Increased viewing on catch-up services such as the BBC iPlayer or mobil ...
- Created on 01 April 2012
- 18. The great unwatched
- (Media)
- ... due to a bizarre series of TV broadcasting rules and Alan Mullery's stubbornness. Television coverage of the Football League was heavily restricted in the early 1980s. There were no live games, no extended hi ...
- Created on 01 February 2012
- 19. Face the future
- (FA Cup)
- ... a deal with YouTube and organisations as diverse as Major League Baseball and film studio Miramax experimenting with Facebook broadcasting, it was only a matter of time before football decided it wante ...
- Created on 21 October 2011
- 20. Changing the tunes
- (Newswatch)
- ... in football. Only a few months ago sections of the press were berating the BBC for having the temerity to expose corruption at the top of FIFA. The broadcasting of a Panorama episode that outlined why ...
- Created on 21 July 2011
