TEST CRICKET BROADCASTING

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21257, 31 August 1934, Page 18

TEST CRICKET BROADCASTING

TO THE EDITOR Of THE TRUSS. Sir,—Please would you answer the following question through your paper? In the broadcast of the recent cricket test match between Australia and England was the description of the match relayed from England? If this is not right, please would you describe how it was done?— Yours, etc.. INTERESTED. August 30, 1934. [The broadcast was not relayed to Australia. The system by which the description was given was described in "The press" when the test series For instance, in the studio of 2BL, Sydney, a staff of experts and

clerks, numbering about 12, was gathered for the test description. In the studio there was a score-board kept by an experienced scorer from the Sydney Cricket Ground, together with a smaller but detailed board, also in charge of an expert scorer. The service from England was mainly of automatic Beam messages in Morse code, which were tabulated on special forms and handed to the announcer, who put them on the air in the form of a description from the ground. Recorded "sound effects" lent a touch of realism to the description.]