Sports Review

"Sports Review" was an early British television programme, produced by the BBC and screened on their BBC Television Service in the late 1930s. It was the first regular sports programme to be transmitted on television.

The programme was presented by Howard Marshall, who was a well known BBC radio presenter, and transmitted once per month. Each edition would last for twenty minutes and featured Marshall reviewing notable sporting events that had occurred during the past month and interviewing sportsmen and women. Film clips from relevant sporting events would also be shown.

The first episode was shown on 30 April 1937, and the series continued until the suspension of the BBC Television Service for the duration of World War II in September 1939. The programme did not return upon the resumption of the service in 1946. As the editions were all transmitted live from the BBC's Alexandra Palace studios, and the BBC had no professional method of recording broadcasts at the time, nothing survives of the series in the archives, aside from some still photographs.

References

*Vahimagi, Tise. "British Television: An Illustrated Guide". Oxford. Oxford University Press / British Film Institute. 1994. ISBN 0-19-818336-4.