Helping Sport

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 48, 13 June 1930, Page 2

Helping Sport

Seteememneaiieaecal Part of Broadcasting HE contention that broadeasting is harmful to sport is not supported by the "New Zealand Referee." This is what last week’s issue has to say in the matter :- Broadcasting has contributed re than its mite in helping the game of fisticuffs. At one time the hue andéery was raised that broadcasting would have a tendency to injure the gate receipts, but during the last few months it has been realised that the sport is being helped rather than hurt by chronicling the’ doings over the air. To refute the suggestion that broadcasting keeps thé fans at: home one need only hark back to the two Demp-sey-Tunney heavyweight championship matches as illustrations. Of-course the attraction was there, but all the same there were more at the second match than there were at the first one. Broadcasting of boxing contests in. New Zealand has instilled a good dea" of interest in the game, and the fe are some very ardent supporters of boxing in the country who so far haye never had the fortune of attending a ~ contest. ; . ‘ te *