Are You Watching the Match Tonight?: The Remarkable Story of Football on Television Book PDF, ePub eBook

Join our eBook service for unlimited books & audiobooks. Get a free 7 day subscription! ↓↓↓↓↓


Book Descriptions:
Football and television have been interwined in culture for more than 50 years and Brian Barwick has played a massive role in the continuing inter-reaction between them. Are You Watching the Match Tonight? tells the story of how football on television became a national obsession. The first live football match in England was the 1938 FA Cup final, and the winning goal was a penalty in the last minute of extra time - proof that football can deliver the dramatic like no other sport. Football on television went from grainy film-edits in the 1950s to the first dedicated highlights shows; Match of the Day first aired on 22 August 1964 (ITV's regional shows began in 1965). The FA Cup final, once the only match ever certain to be shown live, became an all-day event with ITV's FA Cup Wrestling Special competing with the BBC's It's An FA Cup Knock-out. The 1966 World Cup brought live international matches into the public's home for the first time and the BBC coverage of the final will forever be remembered by Kenneth Wolstenholme's legendary, "Some people are on the pitch...they think it's all over...here comes Hurst...it is now!" Soon commentators, presenters and analysts such as Wolstenholme, Barry Davies, John Motson, Brian Moore, Martin Tyler, Keith Macklin, Gerald Sinstadt, Jimmy Hill, Brian Clough and Terry Venables became national figures and their sucessors, Gary Lineker, Gabby Logan, Jeff Stelling, Adrian Chiles, more so. Satellite TV moved football into a new stratosphere with almost 40 per cent of all Premier League matches shown live every season and the FA's sale of broadcast rights in 2012 for that league alone brought in GBP 3 billion. Are You Watching the Match Tonight? is full of fascinating stories from in front of and behind the cameras, a remarkable story spanning 75 years. Written by a man who has held every key post in TV football, and filled with personal anecdotes and interviews with famous faces, this is a must-read book for all football fans.

Are You Watching the Match Tonight?: The Remarkable Story of Football on Television by Brian Barwick

From reader reviews:

James Vera:

Book is to be different for every grade. Book for children right up until adult are different content. As you may know that book is very important for us. The book Are You Watching the Match Tonight?: The Remarkable Story of Football on Television seemed to be making you to know about other knowledge and of course you can take more information. It doesn't matter what advantages for you. The publication Are You Watching the Match Tonight?: The Remarkable Story of Football on Television is not only giving you far more new information but also for being your friend when you feel bored. You can spend your own personal spend time to read your reserve. Try to make relationship with the book Are You Watching the Match Tonight?: The Remarkable Story of Football on Television. You never truly feel lose out for everything if you read some books.

Laura Buscher:

The ability that you get from Are You Watching the Match Tonight?: The Remarkable Story of Football on Television is a more deep you searching the information that hide in the words the more you get interested in reading it. It does not mean that this book is hard to recognise but Are You Watching the Match Tonight?: The Remarkable Story of Football on Television giving you excitement feeling of reading. The author conveys their point in a number of way that can be understood simply by anyone who read the item because the author of this reserve is well-known enough. This particular book also makes your personal vocabulary increase well. That makes it easy to understand then can go along, both in printed or e-book style are available. We highly recommend you for having this Are You Watching the Match Tonight?: The Remarkable Story of Football on Television instantly.

Michelle Morrow:

The reserve with title Are You Watching the Match Tonight?: The Remarkable Story of Football on Television has a lot of information that you can learn it. You can get a lot of advantage after read this book. This specific book exist new understanding the information that exist in this reserve represented the condition of the world now. That is important to yo7u to understand how the improvement of the world. This particular book will bring you with new era of the globalization. You can read the e-book on the smart phone, so you can read the item anywhere you want.

Robert Murphy:

This Are You Watching the Match Tonight?: The Remarkable Story of Football on Television is completely new way for you who has fascination to look for some information given it relief your hunger details. Getting deeper you onto it getting knowledge more you know or you who still having tiny amount of digest in reading this Are You Watching the Match Tonight?: The Remarkable Story of Football on Television can be the light food for yourself because the information inside this book is easy to get simply by anyone. These books build itself in the form that is certainly reachable by anyone, yep I mean in the e-book form. People who think that in book form make them feel sleepy even dizzy this reserve is the answer. So you cannot find any in reading a reserve especially this one. You can find what you are looking for. It should be here for you actually. So , don't miss this! Just read this e-book style for your better life and also knowledge.