CRICKET TEST BROADCASTS
i Pips BBC is not unaware that New Zealand cricket enthusiasts will sit up half, or nearly all, the night, to hear how their representatives are faring when a team is abroad. The Corporation has therefore made arrangements to see that New Zealand receives, through the NZBS, a full coverage of the four Test matches in which the New Zealand Eleven will be engaged during its present tour of England. Special transmitters have been set up in England and two new aerials have been erected at Singapore to ensure the success of the relays.
ERE is the latest information received from the BBC (New Zealand time being given in each case): The First Test, at Leeds, will be ‘played on = Saturday, June 11; Monday, June 13; and Tuesday, June 14. Play will start on the first day at 10.30 p.m. (as far as New Zealand listeners are concerned ) and on the second and third days at 10.0 p.m., and there will be a ball-by-ball description. The
funcheon adjournment will be taken from 12.35 a.m. to 1.10 am. and play will end at 5.30 a.m. Also on the second and third days there will be a fiveminutes’ summary of the day’s play at 5.30 a.m.
On each day of the Tests, from 7.30 p.m. to 7.35 p.m. (N.Z. Time) Arthur Gilligan will talk about the weather and Prospects, and from 9.15 a.m. to 9.25 a.m. on the succeeding day an eyeWitness account of play will be given in the General Overseas Service of the BBC. On the evening of the day following each day’s play the eye-witness account will be repeated, between 7.15 -and 7.25 in the
Pacific Service of the BBC. The same arrangements, if satisfactory, will be used for the other three Tests at Lord’s on June 25, 27 and 28; Old Trafford on July 23, 25, 26; and at Kennington Oval on Avmist 13, 15, and 16.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 515, 6 May 1949, Page 8
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322CRICKET TEST BROADCASTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 515, 6 May 1949, Page 8
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