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Re: [ARSCLIST] Radio News and Sports Reports
> On 29/10/06, Steven C. Barr(x) wrote:
> >>
> > This brings up a related question...were there ever any play-by-play
> > radio broadcasts of golf matches? To me, the sport doesn't seem to
> > lend itself to radio! I would imagine that the results of major
> > events were reported in sportscasts (to the extent that THEY existed
> > on radio)...
I remember the BBC's syndicated 5-minute pieces on various topics in the early
60s, and there were chunks of coverage of golf matches. Not the most exciting
stuff you'd ever want to listen to, and definitely an inspiration for Monty
Python.
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