Sports Flash
E are passing over to... The horses are working round at the barrier; the balloon is coming down and the starter’s up on his platform . , . Oh! beautiful kick, beautiful kick; found the line fifteen yards past the halfway line . That’s the end of the over ... He get out, he can’t get out . . . fall, fall! . . . That was the end of a tenround between ...." Yes, the New Zealand sports announcer is the tops. We take these commentaries too much for granted, forgetting the knowledge, the skill and the enthusiasm that recreates not only the picture but the excitement too. When the microphone goes over to the park or the racecourse it becomes alive. Yet we miss the opportunities this suggests. If the microphone left the studio more often, left it for the streets, the factories, and the countryside-it could do all these things on occasion-broadcasting would become mych more part of our daily lives.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 328, 5 October 1945, Page 8
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154Sports Flash New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 328, 5 October 1945, Page 8
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