Keeping an eye on the World Cup finals

Press, 18 June 1982, Page 15

Keeping an eye on the World Cup finals

There will again be heavy television and radio coverage of the World Cup finals in the next few days, with the satellite package daily at 9.45 p.m. on Two. The package is repeated at 7 a.m. (this morning and Monday), 9 a.m. tomorrow, 8.45 a.m. Sunday, and 6 a.m. Tuesday. Several .matches will be carried live over the next few days, with pride of place going to One’s coverage of New Zealand v. Russia on Sunday at 7 a.m. Radio New Zealand’s network will also carry the match live. The YC stations will carry the Brazil v. Scotland game live tomorrow morning at .7 a.m.; and the Group IV match on Monday between England and Czechoslovakia will also be carried live, only by the commercial network, at 3.15 a.m.

Looking ahead much further to next Wednesday, when the next review will appear on this page, the Scotland v. Russia game is at 7 a.m., on the YC stations. The YC radio stations will carry highlights as follows: Today, 1 p.m. (Austria v. Chile, Czechoslovakia v. Kuwait, Northern Ireland v. Yugoslavia). Tomorrow, 12.30 p.m. (Italy v. Peru, Argentina v. Hungary). Sunday, 12.30 p.m. (Cameroon v. Poland, Belgium v. El Salvador). Monday, 10.30 a.in. (Chile v. West Germany, Spain v. Yugoslavia). Tuesday, 10.30 a.m. (Algeria v. Austria, France v. Kuwait), The commercial network will also carry the live matches shown on television, with the exception that the Brazil v. Scotland game will be bn the YC stations.

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