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September 16 1937, and BBC staff, sick to the rear pegs of transmitting hour upon hour of light operas, experimental plays and Lord Reith's union-bashing diatribes, decide to do something for the common punter instead. Rolling a length of Special Wire down the hill from the BBC's Ally Pally HQ to the Arsenal Stadium in nearby Highbury, they transmit footage of Arsenal's reserve side kicking a ball around in training with some members of the first team. Not for the last time in its existence, the Corporation was laying itself open to the charge of producing programmes only of interest to 17 people in the Islington area - but no matter, because broadcasting history had been made: the world's first-ever live televised football match! The day's listings in full, as reported by the Manchester Guardian...
TELEVISION (Vision: 6.67 Metres; Sound: 7.23 Metres)
11.0 - 12.0: Film for Demonstration Purposes
3.0: "Fancy That!"
3.30: British Movietonews
3.40: Football at the Arsenal
3.55-4.0: Cartoon Film, "Wayward Canary"
9.0: Hutch (Leslie Hutchinson)
9.10: Imagination in Wood-Carvings by Polly Hill Clarke
9.20: Gaumont-British News.
9.30-10.0: "Old Kentucky."