Tommy Martin: On the same wavelength - When radio and sports first combined 

On April 11th, 1921 the fledgling station KDKA carried live commentary of a boxing match in Pittsburgh between Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee – the first ever live sports broadcast

An early outside broadcast van in Loch Lomond, 1932. Via BBC archive.

Ninety-four years ago this week, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Blythe Thornhill Wakelam took a phone call in his London office.

Teddy to his friends, Wakelam was a decorated war veteran but it was his sporting past that was of interest to this caller.