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There could have been no more auspicious year for our organisation to take flight, for London was about to host the Olympics. BBC Sports Report, a celebration of the world’s longest running sports radio programme, is a fitting tribute to the 75th anniversary which has rightly been acclaimed. There is always a sense of urgency when you listen to events unfold on Sports Report, but that is nothing compared to the feeling of those involved in making the programme, which is broadcast live and unscripted.
Opens the doors to one of the great radio institutions and makes you realise how much effort and love goes into making it so special' -Dan Walker Mike Ingham, an authoritative presenter in the early eighties before switching to commentary, received the Doug Gardner award in 2014 and who could forget a secret operation which would have done credit to MI6 in 2019. Mark Pougatch, Jonathan Overend in 2010, Mark Pougatch in 2011 and the current host Mark Chapman in 2017, have all collected the sports presenter of the year. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the foundation of what became the Sports Journalists’ Association.
Obituary: James Alexander Gordon". The Daily Telegraph. London. 19 August 2014 . Retrieved 18 February 2018.
Never mind, Sports Report went from strength to strength, consider the names who have presented the programme, amongst the finest voices on sport this country has ever produced.Glendenning promised ‘to bring you not only the football results but up to the minute account of the major sporting fixtures from all parts of the country’. Pat's reporting has always been engaging, expressive and arresting. Delighted his Sports Report book is just the same' - Mark Pougatch That's why people listen to Sports Report. It is clear the respect and high regard that people have for the programme is still there - we can actually make things happen that TV can't. Delivering the news first is one of them.
Within a decade, Grandstand had disappeared from the screens but Sports Report continues to flourish and since the SJA introduced broadcast categories to our awards almost 20 years ago, some familiar voices on Sports Report have been happy to accept the glittering prizes Murphy said: “Of all the 40-odd sports books I've been involved in over the past 45 years, this has been the most demanding and yet the most fulfilling to write. The research involved mushroomed as stories tumbled out of countless memory banks. It became an account of how sport has been covered on BBC Radio since 1948 – the triumphs, the tragedies, the oddities and the challenges involved in bringing those moments to the listener. Having apparently told my parents at the age of seven that I would one day work on 'Sports Report', managing just that for the past 40years remains a career highlight. I hope I've done justice to all those legends who've added to the stature of 'Sports Report' down the decades.”Any one listening to the programme from as recently as a decade ago will notice a change in tempo and tone,” Murphy writes.
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