Vincent Vega Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 Before the superb live updates and the internet were around, if you could not attend a meeting how did you used to get the results from your team? Waiting for teletext used to be terrible as the results never used to be on there till about 11pm long after the meeting had finished. I used to phone the London Speedway Hotline where Bryn would do his report live from the track!! This used to be quicker but quite expensive as the match report used to be there about 10pm. Are the speedway hotlines still going? Maybe Bryn could tell us his memories of reporting on the various hotlines as he used to do most of them!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LagutaRacingFan Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 Waited for the paper the following day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ch958 Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 when i was a lad i often didn't know who'd won the saturday world final til the star came out on wednesday!! honest! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulco Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 Radio Luxembourg after the news at 11p.m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Leslie Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 Going back to the seventies after news at ten went off, if a local team had ridden, we used to get a still picture of a speedway rider flashed up and the continuity announcer would read out tonight's speedway result. In the 80s I always used to listen to Radio 2 at 9.57pm, where they did a 3 minute sport report. The last 10 seconds of which was them trying to read out as many speedway results as fast as possible. Then came teletext, then internet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSC67 Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 Back in the day the stop press on the back of the Sunday Post was how I found out the result of a Bandits meeting if I wasn't there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazysue Posted July 7, 2013 Report Share Posted July 7, 2013 For me, it was Teletext or the local paper a few days later....most annoying if we were away and the television didn't have teletext and the national paper we picked up didn't have the team we wanted results for listed! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 7, 2013 Report Share Posted July 7, 2013 In the 1940s (!!!!) we used to rely on the 'Daily Mail" - then a great supporter of speedway as was its 'sister' paper - the 'Sunday Dispatch' - or the 'Daily Mirror' and at weekends, besides the 'Sunday Dispatch" there was the 'Sunday Pictorial' (good old Don Clarke) and 'Reynolds News' (later to be the 'Sunday Citizen"). Of course there was the round-ups each week in a wide variety of speedway magazines. But I would also add, there didn't seem to be the anxiety to know as there is nowadays to know results in a matter of minutes. Life back in the 1940s PERHAPS was more relaxed then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coventry_Bee Posted July 7, 2013 Report Share Posted July 7, 2013 Good old teletext, waiting for 7-8 pages to go round. Awaiting the result and if lucky the top scorer. Flicking between BBC and ITV teletext. Here in coventry we used to have Tom Wadrop who did a radio report at 10 so that was the back-up. Don't realise how lucky we are now with updates on the website and interaction on twitter with the riders. The negative is such as Holders crash Friday when news spreads like wildfire. Darcy was on the phone non stop after the crash luckily. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted July 7, 2013 Report Share Posted July 7, 2013 In the 1940s (!!!!) we used to rely on the 'Daily Mail" - then a great supporter of speedway as was its 'sister' paper - the 'Sunday Dispatch' - or the 'Daily Mirror' and at weekends, besides the 'Sunday Dispatch" there was the 'Sunday Pictorial' (good old Don Clarke) and 'Reynolds News' (later to be the 'Sunday Citizen"). Of course there was the round-ups each week in a wide variety of speedway magazines. But I would also add, there didn't seem to be the anxiety to know as there is nowadays to know results in a matter of minutes. Life back in the 1940s PERHAPS was more relaxed then? "The Past is a Foreign Country; They do things differently there". (L.P. Hartley). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noaksey Posted July 8, 2013 Report Share Posted July 8, 2013 Radio Luxembourg after the news at 11p.m. Absolutely Tonight's speedway results from the Gulf Oil British League If you could hear it properly mind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted July 8, 2013 Report Share Posted July 8, 2013 in the early seventies on world final night my mum would ring up the newsdesk of (I think) the sunday people which was based in manchester.... i would stay up till she did it, about 10.30, and she would then pass me the note with the top four written on it.... when I saw 'first Ivan' on it there was no need to read the rest, it was running round the room, going ballistic time! I do also remember being in Rhyl the sunday after PC won in 1976 and seeing on one of those newspaper boards outside the shop (again for the sunday people) with the words "Collins - World Champ" on it... dont get many national media headlines any more now do we? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutz Posted July 8, 2013 Report Share Posted July 8, 2013 Ah, I've still got a photograph that I took of my TV when the Premier League was displayed on Teletext... All meetings were completed and 2003 - Edinburgh sitting proudly at the top of the pile... It's a collectors item as we don't collect too many trophies and Teletext is a thing of the past!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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