Updates
Last update March 2008:- Two missing ITV games added;
04/Dec/1976 Southampton 2 Notts 1 was covered by Southern and 19/Jan/1980
Notts 0 Leicester 1 was covered by ATV. Opponents scorers are now also
being added. TV coverage of the League Cup clash at Derby on 22/Sep/1976
is now questionable as ITV documentation only mentions Aston Villa v Norwich
being covered by ATV that night.
February 2008:- 15/Apr/1978 Sunderland 3 Notts 1 is confirmed
as having highlights broadcast in the Tyne Tees region.
January 2008:- BBCtv began regular highlights (of 5 minutes)
in 1954 when they launched "Saturday Sports Special". ITV experimented
with a live league match in 1960. Jimmy Greaves joined ATV's "Star Soccer"
for season 1980/81 and Sky began showing live games from the 2nd, 3rd and
4th tier from season 1996/97.
December 2007:- The programme featuring an interview
with Claude Bishop (previously alluded to in the newsreels section) was
in fact shown on Channel 4 on 15th March 1983 as part of the series "The
Years Ahead". Some televised matches (1983-91) are now being linked to
individual pages that offer team line-ups etc.
September 2007:- BBC news showed
a report of Notts 2 Swansea City 3 on 12/09/2020.
July 2007:- Sad to hear the news that Hugh Johns (ITV
Midlands "Star Soccer" commentator 1968-82) died in June, he was 83. All
sections of "Notts on the box" have been subject to minor updates over
the past month, two notable 1970's additions are reports/coverage of the
December 1974 goalless draw at Cardiff City and the 3-1 defeat at Sunderland
in April 1978. Also thanks to Mark Bunn for e-mailing in details of a Notts
appearance on a live "Match of the Day - The Road to Wembley" programme
in January 1995 - Whilst most of us were at the match, BBC1 showed highlights
of the drawn Manchester City cup tie at half-time and full-time of the
Blackburn v Newcastle match.
November 2006:- Two 1980's Notts appearances on Match
of the Day have recently been repeated on the ESPN Classic Sport channel
and revealed missing commentators from our '80s page:- Tony Gubba held
the microphone at Bristol City in Sep/1980 (Thanks to Daniel Mann for e-mailing
this info) and for the Preston home match of Apr/1981 - David Coleman was
on duty (Thanks to Darren Ferris). Other repeats this year on ESPN have
included Notts v Chelsea from 80/81 and Notts v Watford 83/84.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Steve Westby, Richard Hucknall, Mark Golley, Nigel Nattrass,
Steve Parker, Alan Coulthard, Stephen Parnham, Mark Chaplin, David Murden,
Warren Davis, John Bourn, Mark Bunn, Wendy Lewis, Paul Wain, Tom Loakes,
Andrew Collinson, Peter Taylor, Julian Clark, Steve Williams, Luke Redel,
Rodney George & anyone else whose name I've mislaid for their invaluable
help in compiling this list.
See also our Star
Soccer page.
Many of the Notts goals from games featured on this site can be downloaded
from Stephen Parnham's site SuperNotts
"It�s up for
grabs now! The history of football on ITV" is a website by John Bourn
dedicated to ITV coverage 1968-1983
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