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12 February – Live Super League matches are broadcast on free-to-air television for the first time when Channel 4 shows the first of ten matches each season for the next two years. This is the first time in its 40-year history that channel 4has broadcast rugby league. [23] Premier Sports broadcasts the RFL Championship. Coverage includes the ...
The 1948 New Zealand rugby league tour of Australia was the fourteenth tour by New Zealand's national rugby league team, and the eleventh tour to visit Australia. The eight-match tour included two Test Matches, which were the first played by New Zealand in Australia since 1909.
Rugby league tours are a series of matches in the sport of rugby league against multiple opponents from one geographic area. Numerous tours have occurred throughout history and have been mostly carried out by the top three rugby league nations Australia (Kangaroos), Great Britain (Lions), and New Zealand (All Blacks/Kiwis).
In 1948 Wigan took part in the first televised rugby league match when its 8–3 Challenge Cup Final victory over Bradford Northern was broadcast to the Midlands. This was the first rugby league match to be attended by the reigning monarch, King George VI, who presented the trophy.
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]
The final was broadcast live on BBC television, with George Duckworth providing commentary, [4] and was the first time a rugby league match had ever been televised. [5] The match was only broadcast to viewers in the London area, as the first television transmitter in the North of England was not completed until 1951. [6]
The First Kangaroos is a 1988 British–Australian made for TV sports film directed by Frank Cvitanovich and starring Dennis Waterman, Chris Haywood and Dominic Sweeney. It depicts the 1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain , the first-ever such tour by the Australia national rugby league team .
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 ...