BBC Sport in Black and White

Richard Haynes is Professor of Communications, Media and Culture and Member of the Stirling Media Research Institute at the University of Stirling, UK. He is author or co-author of several books on the relationships between sport and the media including The Football Imagination: The Rise of Football Fanzine Culture (1995), Football in the New Media Age (2003) and Power Play: Sport, the Media and Popular Culture (2009).

Acknowledgements.- 1. Introduction: Why BBC Television Sport?.- 2. Pre-War TV Sport.- 3. Lobby, Dimmock and the Monopoly of Post-War Televised Sport.- 4. Innovation, Eurovision and the World Cup.- 5. Televising Test Cricket.- 6. Sportsview: Television’s Sports Page.- 7. Cowgill, Coleman and Grandstand.- 8. Prestige of the Nation: International ‘Rugger’.- 9. The Grand National.- 10. Boxing and The Power of Promoters.- 11. Golf: From Minority Interest to Commercial Megolith.- 12. Today’s Sport on your Screen Tonight: Sport Special and Match of the Day.- 13. From Eurovision to Global BBC Sport: Sweden, Rome, Tokyo.- 14. Wimbledon, Colour and the Open Era.- 15. 'They Think it’s All Over...': 1966 and the New Era of TV Sport.