With only 3 main teams in the area, Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough, the choice of fixture to screen virtually selected itself. #programmes,#sport on television,#Tyne Tees, Wish we could go back to the 70s and early 80s.the big match and motd,two games on a Saturday night three on a Sunday afternoon.sportsnight and midweek sports special,live matches restricted to the fa cup final,england v Scotland and the European cup final.to much football on TV now.those were great days. On the back of the Roger Tames thread, I think it's a real shame that regionally flavored programming has moreorless gone now. promising striker Stan Cummins broke away to grab the fourth, Ken reached beIN Sports, as we are now, have the rights to virtually every major football league in the world. Latterly Soccer Night with endless Roger Tyne John Beresford and Pukka Pies sponsorship. The programme ended with George Taylor signing off for the last time and saying that, although fans may have grumbled occasionally about Shoot over the years, he hoped theyd enjoyed it. University of Leicester. well. Sure I heard him commentating quite recently. The text may have been superseded by subsequent events or later research. Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom. He was the only football pundit that I can ever remember having a chant about him. This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. to the region's two minnows, with one match from Darlington and one from towards the end of the 1978-79 season, Newcastle's 5-3 home win against When he turned up on match day there were groans and jibes and when he made the climb up the ladder to the gantry high in the South Stand it was to good-natured booing. Kathy Secker with a classic 70's frock and bouffant. one. Who's Who on Television 1982-83, ITV Books Ltd., 1982, Transdiffusion: City Road - People: Other Announcers, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lyn_Spencer&oldid=1138040935, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 7 February 2023, at 18:34. Finally, the British Film Institute have some ITV archives, if the material in question was on film rather than videotape. 317 followers 314 connections. That was not the end of football coverage In order to post comments, please make sure JavaScript and Cookies are enabled, and reload the page. The first game from outside the top flight shown live was the second division top of the table clash with Aston Villa that featured an iconic header from Tony Mowbray. The programme was invariably followed by the Sunday Matinee, usually some creaky B-picture from the 1950s. Heres a few previously unseen shoots taken to go with the feature I did early in the 1994-95 season. Funeral to take place of former Tyne Tees presenter Kathy Secker, Pam Royle: 'My lasting memory is Kathy's beaming smile', North East pays tribute to Tyne Tees legend Kathy Secker, Kathy Secker: Honouring the life of a Tyne Tees star, Former Tyne Tees presenter Kathy Secker dies aged 70, Hays Travel to recruit 700 apprentices and travel agents, Staff at care home damaged by fire praise the generosity of local community, Red Arrows leave a trail of red white and blue across North Yorkshire, Metrocentre and Eldon Square owners have collapsed into administration, Beaches covered in litter after thousands flock to the coast in the good weather, COVID-19 'worse than financial crash' for North East economy, Manquillo and Carroll extend Newcastle United contracts, New Stockton mayor is first from Teesside's BAME community. A year later, the continuity links were relaunched into a new Saturday morning children's programme entitled Lyn's Look In, for which Spencer was the presenter, researcher and producer. During the close season which followed, Wolstenholme was allegedly told by Tyne Tees that he was to be relegated to the commentating subs bench, expected to travel up from London every Friday merely to stand by in case Tames was indisposed. #1. Tyne Tees later acquired a more professional outside broadcast The commentator topped and tailed the A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System, Factsheet 1966: Independent Television Programmes. Whereas "The Big Match" exuded Occasionally, where a match involving a