Tag: Richard Jones

The BBC has announced the end of one of its longest-running programmes, Football Focus. It’s been a fixture of Saturday lunchtimes since 1974. But the final whistle will blow when this season finishes. The BBC has blamed a decline in audience for the BBC One broadcast as fans now get their pre-match news and views from a wider range of sources. In this Conversation piece, Richard Jones looks at the BBC sports reporting and the changes that are related to the general media landscape upheaval.

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Transforming Scottish Basketball: Exploring the Student Impact, 1890s–1930s by Ross Walker (open access).