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Wimbledon was also involved in a piece of television history, when on 1 July 1967 the first official colour television broadcast took place in the UK. Four hours live coverage of the 1967 Championships was shown on BBC Two, which was the first television channel in Europe to regularly broadcast in colour.
In August 1967, Vine presented the Wimbledon World Lawn Tennis Professional Championships, which was the first tennis tournament at Wimbledon to feature professional players and also the first colour television sports service in Europe, which BBC2 launched on 1 July 1967.
The 1967 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was held from Monday 26 June until Saturday 8 July 1967. [1] It was the 81st staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the third Grand Slam tennis event of 1967.
Barry MacKay (August 31, 1935 – June 15, 2012) was an American tennis player, tournament director and broadcaster.He was ranked #1 in the U.S. in 1960. [2]While competing in college for the University of Michigan, he won the Singles title of the 1957 NCAA Men's Tennis Championship to clinch the team title for Michigan over Tulane 10 to 9, by defeating Sammy Giammalva in a 5 set Final.
7 Death. 8 See also. 9 References. ... The live BBC1 broadcast of the 1967 Miss World competition is watched by over 23 million ... BBC Wimbledon (1927–1939, 1946 ...
Harry Leonard Carpenter, OBE (17 October 1925 – 20 March 2010) [1] was a British BBC sports commentator broadcasting from the early 1950s until his retirement in 1994. His speciality was boxing. He was presenter of programmes such as Sportsnight (1975–1985) and Grandstand and also anchored coverage of Wimbledon and golf tournaments.
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The Wimbledon World Lawn Tennis Professional Championships, also known as the Wimbledon Pro, was a men's tennis tournament held in August 1967. [1] [2] The tournament was sponsored and broadcast by the BBC to mark the invention of colour television.