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The Thanet Blog List has just been updated. Looks terrific.

Top Tips for Sports Broadcasting on Radio

As mentioned below, so I've decided to reproduce the two articles here....

Earlier today (Saturday, December 9th), I paid a visit to Sussex. No BBC TV haven't moved from London W12. Just my latest outing for BBC Radio Kent earlier today. Not Gillingham FC but Margate FC who were playing at Horsham.

Sports presenting on radio, as many of you know, is one of my great passions. It's fun and particuarly great when your broadcasting about your own team! It may sound easy but let me assure you that to be reasonably good at it, you'll need these qualities and characteristics:

The ability to write scripts under pressure.

Prepare in good time - and get there in good time!

Research the match you're covering.

Understand what's at stake.

Listen to and carry out instructions from your producer/anchor/editor.

Ensure all technical equipment is in good working order.

Understand the laws of libel, and how they relate to journalists.

Be tactful

Don't engage in polemical arguments.

Have a great "radio voice"


........and that's just for starters


BTW, for those of you who are wondering what the score was, then pay a visit here.

Zara Phillips

What an amazing result at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award last night.

It was also good to see many of our familiar BBC commentators, sports presenters and sporting heros all under one roof. Well done to the BBC for yet another great sporting spectacle.

....and talking of sport, my Top Tips for Sports Broadcasting on Radio posts on my other blog, appears to have gone down well with a few of you.

Margate today

A fleeting visit to see Lord Neville of Margate. Before doing so, I took my lovely niece down to Foreness Bay. You know there's something so refreshing about an English seaside resort in December. It's called the temperature! Although one was blessed with some excellent winter sunshine, the cold curtailed our visit to one of my childhood playgrounds.

Undeterred by this calamity, His Lordship was collected and transported via the seafront at Grenham Bay , Birchington and onwards to the Minnis Bay Restaurant. The fabulous threesome eat their way through a pleasant Sunday lunch before taking in the sites of the wonderful Isle of Thanet.

It was so clear today that one could easily make out La France. The huge cliffs at Cap Gris Nez are easily viewed when atmospheric conditions allow. Apart from being in a plane over Manston aerodrome, or Kent International Airport as it's now known, the "best" place to see France is abive the port at Ramsgate. Yes, Ramsgate, home to Eascliffe Richard, Frannie Oapen, Ramsgate Tourettes and other well know personages of the East Kent Blogosphere.
(Iain Dale is from West Kent).

Having survived "Chav Central", our route took us through Westwood Cross.
(This absurd "out-of-town" shopping centre has decimated the High Streets of Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate in one very foul swoop).

Upon our return to Westgate-on-Sea, tea was taken before the long-haul back to the centre of the universe.

What's this got to do with my training schedule. Not a lot. But families should always come first.

Ten things I wouldn't do

Having been tagged by Ellee Seymour , I've listed below my "ten things" I wouldn't do.

1. Kill someone intentionally

2. Vote for the EU

3. Visit Syria

4. Become unfit

5. Lose my sense of humour

6. Smoke reguarly

7. Hit a woman

8. Never say “no comment”

9. Give up massages

10. Stop learning

Ollie

View from the Coffin End

Eastcliffe Richard

Francis Oapen

Dane Valley Ted

Thanet Life

Ramsgate Tourettes

The Angina Monologues

Nethercourt Notes

Sashinka

That East Finchley Monthly Paper, The Archer

"ordinary" press releases sometimes get published.

Needless to say, I'm pleased with getting in to this months edition. See other Blog