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BBC Outside Broadcasting



Reference
MCC/MED/2/6
Date:
1952-12-22 - 1961-08-10
Level of description
file
Extent
1 folder
Part of
Department correspondence (MCC/MED/2)
Scope and Content
Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams and agreements relating to British Broadcasting Corporation Outside Broadcasting arrangements, compiled by R Aird, MCC Secretary. Includes draft agreements between BBC and MCC for broadcasting cricket in 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957 and 1958 (to cover the 1958-1962 seasons) and signed agreement between BBC and MCC for broadcasting cricket at Lord's in 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957 and 1958 (to cover the 1958-1962 seasons) lists of matches that the BBC would like to broadcast at Lord's copies of agendas and minutes for MCC Committee, Finance and General Purposes Sub-Committee and Rules of County Cricket Sub-Committee in 1959, memorandum of opinions from different counties on sound and broadcasting fees for the 1953 season, arrangements for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to send ball-by-ball descriptions by cable from Test matches during the Australian tour of England in 1953, memorandum of a meeting held between MCC and BBC to discuss terms for agreements for the 1954 season, arrangements and synopsis for Lord's to be used as a reception point for a radio-link with a car, in the BBC programme 'The Driving Test', arrangements for the Danish Service to broadcast during the MCC vs. Denmark match at Lord's in 1954, memorandum of a meeting of BBC and MCC to discuss broadcasting rights for the 1955 season, request from Cricket Club Italia for a cricket match in Naples, Italy between two English teams to be publicised, request from BBC to make a programme reporting on the MCC tour of Australia in 1954-1955 and produce a tribute to the England Captain L Hutton, arrangements for Rex Alston to interview the South African team in the Long Room at Lord's in 1955, arrangements for a general overseas service to broadcast weather and pitch reports from Lord's, memorandum discussing facilities for interviews at Lord's by BBC and Independent Television News [ITN], arrangements for Roy Lawrence to broadcast a summary of the day's play during the West Indies tour of England in 1957, arrangements for a television outside broadcast of Easter Coaching Classes at Lord's in April 1957, memorandum proposing a change for the BBC commentators point for sound broadcasting to move from the Pavilion to the Warner Stand, copy of press releases from the BBC on listening and viewing trends and the amount of televisions owned in the United Kingdom, request from the Maharajkumar Vijaya of Vizianagram to perform commentating duties during the Indian tour of England in 1959, copy of the Investiture Ceremony to honour the Maharajkumar Vijaya of Vizianagram at New Delhi in October 1958, memorandum on the policy of the BBC in connection with sound coverage of cricket in 1960.
Associations
British Broadcasting Corporation
Ronald Aird
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Cricket Club Italia
Independent Television News Ltd
Sir Leonard Hutton
Maharajah Vizianagram
Rex Alston
Subject
India in England 1959, broadcasting, Australia in England 1953, South Africa in England 1955, Denmark in England 1954, MCC in Australia 1954-1955, Relations between MCC and BBC, Easter Coaching Classes, West Indies in England 1957
Institution name
Marylebone Cricket Club
Conditions governing access
Open
Language
Italian, English
Size
1 folder
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