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The First Kangaroos: 1988 Comedy, drama Rugby league Dennis Waterman stars in a story of an Australian team on a tour of Great Britain. Old Scores: 1991 Comedy, drama Rugby union A controversial match between New Zealand and Wales is replayed 25 years later with the original teams. Starring Windsor Davies, Martyn Sanderson, and John Bach. Up 'n ...
The 1947–48 Northern Rugby Football League season's Challenge Cup Final was the first rugby league match to be televised. [17] All spectator sports in the United Kingdom experienced a surge in interest in the years following the end of World War II and rugby league boomed. [ 20 ]
Wigan had ended the regular season as the league leaders. The Challenge Cup Winners were Wigan who beat Bradford Northern 8–3 in the final. Wigan's 1948 Challenge Cup Final victory over Bradford Northern was the first ever televised Rugby League match and Cup Final – although it was shown in the Midlands only. [1]
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In 1948 the first televised rugby league match was played when Wigan's 8–3 Challenge Cup Final victory over Bradford Northern was broadcast to the Midlands. In another first this was the first rugby league match to be attended by the reigning monarch, King George VI, who presented the trophy.
8 February – The BBC broadcasts the FA Cup fifth round match between Charlton Athletic and Blackburn Rovers, the first FA Cup match other than a final to be broadcast. 1948. 1 May – The BBC broadcasts the Rugby League Challenge Cup final for the first time. It did not broadcast the event again until 1952 and began annual coverage in 1958.
The 1948 NSWRFL season was the forty-first New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership season, Sydney’s top-level rugby league football competition, and Australia’s first. The teams remained unchanged from the previous season, with ten clubs from across the city contesting the premiership during the season which culminated in Western ...