Ten pin bowling
Motor racing from Silverstone
Show jumping rom Hickstead
Ice skating
Motor cycle scramble
Wrestling
Rugby union
Most of the regions had their own local sports programmes at least once a week
I'm pretty sure that Hickstead show jumping and motor cycle scrambling were BBC sports. Similarly rugby union, far too elitist back then for ITV. Motor racing was unlikely to be on ITV either.
I remember them showing ten pin bowling though. Eurosport still show it.
Back then ITV were struggling to get any kind of sport to show (apart from wrestling) the BBC had a virtual monopoly. To compete with Grandstand ITV created World of Sport so they could show things like "Cliff Diving from Acapulco". They had surfing on too.
Other sports you don't see any more include car trials and a strange annual event involving various different off road vehicles racing cross country.
Saw a clip on a cable channel a few years back of motorbike and sidecar scrambling !!!! I mean a trial bike with a guy standing on a sidecar attached to it going over jumps, I think most had a death wish !!!!
I'm pretty sure that Hickstead show jumping and motor cycle scrambling were BBC sports. Similarly rugby union, far too elitist back then for ITV. Motor racing was unlikely to be on ITV either.
I remember them showing ten pin bowling though. Eurosport still show it.
Back then ITV were struggling to get any kind of sport to show (apart from wrestling) the BBC had a virtual monopoly. To compete with Grandstand ITV created World of Sport so they could show things like "Cliff Diving from Acapulco". They had surfing on too.
Other sports you don't see any more include car trials and a strange annual event involving various different off road vehicles racing cross country.
A few on here must remember BBC's Kickstart, Trails program with Peter Purvis, it's been mentioned I'm sure.
BIB I can only think of the Paris Dakar that's an annual event with different vehicles.
As someone else has said I think there are satellite options for watching NHL. I know NBA have a league pass subscription to watch every game online and I'd be surprised if NHL didn't do something similar. Have you looked into this?
You should give the other three major American sports a try. I'm a huge NBA fan and I'm gradually getting into the other three. The time difference makes things very difficult though.
Well yes I think there is a streaming service thingy called NHL Gamecenter (In fact some of the illegal stream are clearly directly from that. )
2 hours to go before tonight's Washington Capitals game tonight.
I did try American Football once but that seemed to have more stoppages than Hockey! It was all run about for 15 seconds and then nothing for years. Blink at the wrong time and you missed the bit you were meant to be watching. Plus the rules are straight out of Numberwang!
Sumo. I remember watching it as a kid on Trans World Sport, haven't seen it on Tv for years.
Wish someone would put it back on Terrestrial TV, it's not as if Sky or anyone else wants it, can't imagine the footage is expensive for broadcasters outside of Japan.
Edit suite and an interested voice over artist, not Brian Blessed as much as I like him, he did nothing for Sumo on Channel Four IMO.
It's suffered from a match fixing scandal too apparently, so the sport could do with some outside help/exposure.
Well yes I think there is a streaming service thingy called NHL Gamecenter (In fact some of the illegal stream are clearly directly from that. )
2 hours to go before tonight's Washington Capitals game tonight.
I did try American Football once but that seemed to have more stoppages than Hockey! It was all run about for 15 seconds and then nothing for years. Blink at the wrong time and you missed the bit you were meant to be watching. Plus the rules are straight out of Numberwang!
So you don't HAVE to watch it through an illegal stream then.
The good sports are mostly shown although something I've realised lately is that sport coverage is skewed rather towards sports Britain do well in which is a bit sad really. I don't think tennis gets the coverage it deserves, for me it's one of the best sports around - certainly the sport that has been played to the highest standard over the past few years.
On the flip side, rugby union can disappear as far as I'm concerned, absolute nonsense of a sport.
So because you don't like it, it shouldn't be shown? How ridiculous.
The problem in this country is that every other sport comes a very distant second to football.
I'm pretty sure that Hickstead show jumping and motor cycle scrambling were BBC sports. Similarly rugby union, far too elitist back then for ITV. Motor racing was unlikely to be on ITV either.
I remember them showing ten pin bowling though. Eurosport still show it.
Back then ITV were struggling to get any kind of sport to show (apart from wrestling) the BBC had a virtual monopoly. To compete with Grandstand ITV created World of Sport so they could show things like "Cliff Diving from Acapulco". They had surfing on too.
Other sports you don't see any more include car trials and a strange annual event involving various different off road vehicles racing cross country.
The ITV sports I listed were from the 1967 ITV Handbook.It may be, of course, they shared some of them with the BBC, they certainly shared Wimbledon for a few years.A few ITV sports from the 1963 Handbook:
Motor cycle scrambling from Wakefield
Amateur boxing from Bishop Auckland
Upton horse trials
Royal Windsor Horse Show
Cricket: Sussex v Pakistan
Polo from Windsor Great Park (an unlikely ITV sport)
International Boys' Golf from Richmond
Indoor tennis from Wembley
I'd love to see more programmes featuring BMX. Over the years we've had BMX Beat which showed freestyle BMX competitions and the Kelloggs BMX Championship which showed racing, but you rarely see any BMX other than on the Extreme channel.
i'd love to see Kickstart back showing trials biking, and MTB trials would be good to watch too.
Wish someone would put it back on Terrestrial TV, it's not as if Sky or anyone else wants it, can't imagine the footage is expensive for broadcasters outside of Japan.
Edit suite and an interested voice over artist, not Brian Blessed as much as I like him, he did nothing for Sumo on Channel Four IMO.
It's suffered from a match fixing scandal too apparently, so the sport could do with some outside help/exposure.
C4 lost sumo because the Japanese organisers and NHK, the rights holder, felt it was not being treated seriously and portrayed as two fat men bumping into each other. It is, of course, far more than that.......
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I don't know if you're joking but the English Premiership is financially the biggest league in the world. England do relatively well at football.
Football will be the number one sport around the world for the foreseeable future, I was talking in terms of minor sports.
Yes, I'm taking the piss out of the national team. A privelige normally reserved for foreign national teams.
I'm pretty sure that Hickstead show jumping and motor cycle scrambling were BBC sports. Similarly rugby union, far too elitist back then for ITV. Motor racing was unlikely to be on ITV either.
I remember them showing ten pin bowling though. Eurosport still show it.
Back then ITV were struggling to get any kind of sport to show (apart from wrestling) the BBC had a virtual monopoly. To compete with Grandstand ITV created World of Sport so they could show things like "Cliff Diving from Acapulco". They had surfing on too.
Other sports you don't see any more include car trials and a strange annual event involving various different off road vehicles racing cross country.
A few on here must remember BBC's Kickstart, Trails program with Peter Purvis, it's been mentioned I'm sure.
BIB I can only think of the Paris Dakar that's an annual event with different vehicles.
Well yes I think there is a streaming service thingy called NHL Gamecenter (In fact some of the illegal stream are clearly directly from that.
2 hours to go before tonight's Washington Capitals game tonight.
I did try American Football once but that seemed to have more stoppages than Hockey! It was all run about for 15 seconds and then nothing for years. Blink at the wrong time and you missed the bit you were meant to be watching. Plus the rules are straight out of Numberwang!
Wish someone would put it back on Terrestrial TV, it's not as if Sky or anyone else wants it, can't imagine the footage is expensive for broadcasters outside of Japan.
Edit suite and an interested voice over artist, not Brian Blessed as much as I like him, he did nothing for Sumo on Channel Four IMO.
It's suffered from a match fixing scandal too apparently, so the sport could do with some outside help/exposure.
So you don't HAVE to watch it through an illegal stream then.
So because you don't like it, it shouldn't be shown? How ridiculous.
The problem in this country is that every other sport comes a very distant second to football.
The ITV sports I listed were from the 1967 ITV Handbook.It may be, of course, they shared some of them with the BBC, they certainly shared Wimbledon for a few years.A few ITV sports from the 1963 Handbook:
Motor cycle scrambling from Wakefield
Amateur boxing from Bishop Auckland
Upton horse trials
Royal Windsor Horse Show
Cricket: Sussex v Pakistan
Polo from Windsor Great Park (an unlikely ITV sport)
International Boys' Golf from Richmond
Indoor tennis from Wembley
Plus other regional sports coverage not networked
i'd love to see Kickstart back showing trials biking, and MTB trials would be good to watch too.
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Not what I said at all.
C4 lost sumo because the Japanese organisers and NHK, the rights holder, felt it was not being treated seriously and portrayed as two fat men bumping into each other. It is, of course, far more than that.......