Yesterday’s papers today: Broadcasting the Ashes 1928 1932
Broadcasting the Ashes of 1928-29 and 1932-33 – some clippings from the newspapers of the time as preserved by Trove, the glorious digital archive hosted by the National Library of Australia: https://twitter.com/rickeyrecricket/status/933042334727471104
Channel 9 moves Bundaberg to Cairns
We come to expect the ABC sports department to mangle, ignore, or totally re-invent sporting ground titles when there are naming rights sponsorships involved. But what is behind Channel Nine’s renaming of “Bundaberg Rum Stadium”, the venue of the Second Test between the Australian cricket team and Bangladesh, to “Bundaberg Stadium”?
The ABC Cricket Book: The First 60 Years
This is a marvellous document, both of Australian cricket and of a long and successful episode in Australian broadcasting history. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, formed in 1932 as the Australian Broadcasting Commission, has right from its beginnings shown a committment to the reporting of major sports to its listeners, and in 1932 there were fewer […]