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Haynes R (2013) Glasgow Sport on TV. Sport Heritage: From Sporting Past to Future Wellbeing Blog [Blog post] 01.03.2013. https://sportheritage.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/glasgow-sport-on-tv/
Abstract
It was a Scot who arguably invented the first working television service, and in 1931, the Helensborough-born John Logie-Baird, innovated a way of using his ‘mechanical’ form of television to transmit an outside broadcast from the Epsom Derby, some six years ahead of the BBC’s first televised OB from King George VI Coronation in 1937. But it would be more than two decades before television was eventually broadcast in Scotland via the Kirk O’Shotts transmitter, and so it was 1953 that the first live OB from Scotland was transmitted from the Edinburgh Tattoo.
| Type of media | Blog post |
|---|---|
| Status | Published |
| Funders | AHRC Arts and Humanities Research Council |
| Publication date | 01/03/2013 |
| Publication date online | 01/03/2013 |
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