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Glasgow Sport on TV

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Haynes R (2013) Glasgow Sport on TV. Sport Heritage: From Sporting Past to Future Wellbeing Blog [Blog post] 01.03.2013. https://sportheritage.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/glasgow-sport-on-tv/

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It was a Scot who arguably invented the first working television service, and in 1931, the Helensborough-born John Logie-Baird, innovated a way of using his ‘mechanical’ form of television to transmit an outside broadcast from the Epsom Derby, some six years ahead of the BBC’s first televised OB from King George VI Coronation in 1937. But it would be more than two decades before television was eventually broadcast in Scotland via the Kirk O’Shotts transmitter, and so it was 1953 that the first live OB from Scotland was transmitted from the Edinburgh Tattoo.

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StatusPublished
FundersAHRC Arts and Humanities Research Council
Publication date01/03/2013
Publication date online01/03/2013
Publisher URLhttps://sportheritage.wordpress.com/…gow-sport-on-tv/

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Professor Richard Haynes

Professor Richard Haynes

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