Everyone's got their own memories of hearing cricket on the ABC. It's been the soundtrack to summer for 90 years. Meet the characters behind the microphone, get insights into the art of commentary and hear tall tales and true from the commentary box.
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Everyone's got their own memories of hearing cricket on the ABC. It's been the soundtrack to summer for 90 years. Meet the characters behind the microphone, get insights into the art of commentary and hear tall tales and true from the commentary box.
It's hard to remember now, but televised cricket in Australia was led by the ABC for over 20 years. From the beginning of television in 1956, ABC TV was the country's predominant broadcaster of cricket.
Then in 1977, Kerry Packer created World Series Cricket; a move ultimately designed to get the exclusive rights to broadcast cricket on the Nine Network, and off the ABC.
It was called a cricket revolution, but to what extent had the relay technology, the camera angles, the action and slow-motion replays — as well as the commentators — been pioneered and nurtured by the ABC?
Everlasting Summer
Everyone's got their own memories of hearing cricket on the ABC. It's been the soundtrack to summer for 90 years. Meet the characters behind the microphone, get insights into the art of commentary and hear tall tales and true from the commentary box.
