Football Commentaries From Britain

New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 335, 23 November 1945, Page 7

Football Commentaries From Britain

HESE are the arrangements the ‘" Broadcasting Service ‘has made for helping the public to follow the’ N.Z. Football team now playing matches in Britain. Station 2YA will receive cabled advice of the scores after every match; but as play takes place in the afternoons in England, the results will reach New Zealand in the early hours of the morning. Scores will be announced that morning from the main National and Commercial stations during the news linkups, at 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 and 8.45 a.m. In addi-. tion, for the three international matches, and the match with the Combined Services on January 12, the BBC will broadcast a commentary on the whole of the play. These commentaries will be rebroadcast by the main New Zealand national stations at 9 o’clock the next morning (Sunday). For the other matches, the BBC will not broadcast full commentaries on shortwave, but will broadcast the following evening in the Pacific Service, a summary of the game by New Zealand’s broadcasting representative with the team, Lieut. W. J. McCarthy, with recorded highlights. These will be rebroad- | cast at 6.30 p.m. by,the main national stations and repeated after the 11.0 p.m. news the same day, so that listeners will have two opportunities of hearing from the New Zealand stations how the teams fared. In addition, recordings of the full commentaries by Lieut. McCarthy on these matches will be sent by airmail to

New Zealand to be broadcast from New Zealand stations as they come to hand. Commentaries on the three International Matches and the game against the Combined Services Team, will be broadcast by Stations IYA, 2YA, 3YA, 4YA, 2YH, 3ZR, and 4YZ at 9.0 a.m. on the following dates: Sunday, November 25, v. England. Sunday, January 6, v. Wales. Sunday, January 13, v. Combined Services. Sunday, January 20, v. Scotland. With the Boys Overseas will be broadcast at 8.10 a.m. on these dates.