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Editor’s Comment
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F
irst things first, I'm not going to mention the Ashes series.
I've been glued to my desk bringing you this issue of SGB,
and I've hardly seen a thing on TV of late. I was lucky
enough to catch that final set of the Wimbledon men's final,
London Road, Maidstone,
which was just sensational and a great advert for sport. More
recently, the UK Championships in Birmingham have been great
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One thing that is often overlooked with digital TV now almost
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everywhere is that it has done something very, very good –
digital TV and the proliferation of channels on the delivery
Editor:
mechanism means that even the most marginal of sports
Jon Bruford
can demand good quality coverage. Not that I'm
suggesting Wimbledon or the UK Champs are marginal,
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of course. Scout through the channels, and you'll find just about every sport under
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the sun, where previously, with very few channels of choice, it was often football or
nothing.
It's fair to say that television plays a major part in the popularity of football, but
Contributors:
could – and does – it work the same way for more 'marginal' sports? Will we see
Jack Lynes: Sports Trade
football's grip on TV viewers eroded by the women's game, for example? Or by
ever-popular boxing, or stock car racing, or doughnut trampolining… The list is
Robin Barwick: Contributing Editor
endless, and with the right kind of coverage and some television investment, the
Zöe Foster: Feature Writer Sky really is the limit.
Elsewhere, it really is sad to hear about the demise of Canterbury Europe; no
doubt a company that doesn't have excellent base layer product will step in and
pick them up for peanuts and benefit from all the hard work they put into
Publication Manager branding and identity in recent years. The knock on effects of companies
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go. This affects every rugby and football club the company are involved with, to a
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high degree in some cases, and of course you guys out there on the front line in
sports retail. Let's hope it's the only casualty we see this summer.
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What's going on in the sports Robin Barwick takes a closer look at
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The voice of the independent, still
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bras on the market
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