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A vidiprinter is a sports scores and results ticker service provided to media organisations. It is shown on BBC One and Sky Sports News to provide a live on-air feed of football scores when significant games are in progress. Since its inception, the vidiprinter service was supplied by the Press Association, the UK's national and international ...
Teletype teleprinters in use in England during World War II Example of teleprinter art: a portrait of Dag Hammarskjöld, 1962. A teleprinter (teletypewriter, teletype or TTY) is an electromechanical device that can be used to send and receive typed messages through various communications channels, in both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint configurations.
Sports Phone was a telephone service in the United States that allowed users to hear sports scores and information. The service was launched in 1972, and after initially failing it was relaunched three years later. The service gained a following, and by 1981 had hit a peak of 50 million calls in a year. Sports Phone began in New York City, but ...
The Sporting Life was an American weekly newspaper, published from 1883 to 1917 and from 1922 to 1924, [1] [2] [3] that provided national coverage on sports with a particular focus on baseball and trap shooting. The masthead on the front page of newspaper displayed the motto (shown in image at right): "Devoted to Base Ball, Trap Shooting and ...
The Sporting Life 10K is an annual 10K running/walking event on Yonge Street in Toronto, that has taken place every May since 2003. [13] Money raised from the Sporting Life 10K goes towards funding Campfire Circle (formerly Camp Ooch & Camp Trillium)– a volunteer-run summer camp to provide enriching experiences to victims of childhood cancer .
Grandstand. (TV programme) Grandstand was the flagship sports programme of the BBC which was broadcast on Saturday afternoons on BBC1 between 1958 and 2007, and from 1981 on Sunday afternoons as Sunday Grandstand on BBC2, although until 1998 the Sunday edition aired only during the summer. The last editions of Grandstand and Sunday Grandstand ...
Francis Charles Richter (January 26, 1854 – February 12, 1926) was an American journalist who served as founder and editor of Sporting Life from its inception to its demise, and editor of the Reach Guide from its inception in 1901. Richter died the day after completing the 1926 edition of the Reach Guide. As a writer and associate of baseball ...
This Sporting Life. (radio program) This Sporting Life was a culturally iconic Triple J radio comedy programme, created by award-winning actor-writer-comedians John Doyle and Greig Pickhaver, who performed as their characters Roy and HG. Broadcast from 1986 to 2008, it was one of the longest-running, most popular and most successful radio ...