Re: SCTV female sports..... A quick google of "SCTV female sports" led me to the name of Phyllis Gumble -- while itself is funny.
http://sctvguide.ca/cgi-bin/sctvmangler?Phyllis%20Gumble On Sun., May 17, 2020, 3:14 p.m. Steve Timko, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 11:29 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Fair enough, though once you (appropriately) call me out on my >> USA-centrism, no need to stop at Europe and Canada. There’s a big wide >> world out there. >> >> I did a little google searching, and could not find any pre-1975 women >> sports tv broadcasters outside of the US, but I suspect there are several >> and I missed them. >> > > My brain cells are misfiring on this and I'm sure I'm not recalling it > properly, but there was a former professional female tennis player who gave > color commentary on TV in France and she really knew her stuff. One time a > player lost the first set, went and changed her shoes and the commentator > correctly predicted a change in strategy and she won the next two sets and > the match. > The commentator retired. NBC was looking to bring her back for some > commentary on NBC. Advertisers got worried because she was openly lesbian > and they wanted to keep that under wraps, despite top players like Martina > Navratilova and Billie Jean King. It turns out she was fine reading a > script in English but her extemporaneous commentary in English was > unintelligible and NBC did not use her. > I tried Googling this to find her name but I couldn't. > Wasn't there an SCTV sketch based on a female Canadian sports commentator? > > > > >> >> More to the point though, my real question, properly specified, is >> something like: were there any women working on American network television >> covering major sports prior to George in 1975? >> >> The best source I found on this was an article titled “Women in >> Sportscasting: A Brief History by Lou Schwartz: >> americansportscastersonline.com/womeninsportscasting.html >> >> This identifies two women prior to George that meet my criteria ( or >> maybe just one, depending on definition): >> >> 1. Donna De Varona (I kick myself a little for this, as I should have at >> least suspected her, or at least someone in the Olympic movement) worked on >> ABC (WWoS) starting at age 17 (most specific her Wikipedia article gets) so >> ~1964. But, frankly I was not really thinking of swimming or the Olympics... >> >> >> 2. Jane Chastain, who did local TV sports stuff, in 1960s, is credited as >> the first woman to work a network NFL game for CBS in 1974 (with Bob Criqui >> and Irv Cross). >> >> So, in the limited, biased spirit in which I initially asked my question, >> the answer I guess really is Jane Chastain, who did network NFL >> broadcasting a year before George (and unlike George, was an actual sports >> journalist). Chastain went on to be a conservative political commentator, >> so not my role model, but still, happy to give credit where it is due. >> >> I was a kid watching the NFL in 1974, but don’t remember Chastain (though >> do now remember talk of a woman working a game that the adult men around me >> thought was so bad she set the case for women sports commentators back a >> decade). Maybe her game did not play in LA. I do remember George the >> following year, and not for her broadcasting ability or sports knowledge >> (sorry, I was relatively newly arrived into puberty that fall). >> >> >> On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 6:26 PM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Europe and maybe Canada had female sportscaster's. >>> On May 16, 2020, 6:08 PM -0700, PGage <[email protected]>, wrote: >>> >>> In the first sentence of the Variety Obit it says that she was “one of >>> the first leading female sports broadcasters...” >>> >>> Which got me thinking, why doesn’t it say she was the first leading >>> female sports broadcasters? She premiered on NFL Today in 1975, can anyone >>> think of a woman in that field prior to that? >>> >>> On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 5:28 PM Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> She and Jimmy can talk football again. >>>> >>>> Blood disorder complications, 70. >>>> >>>> >>>> https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/phyllis-george-nfl-today-host-dead-dies-sports-broadcaster-1234608748/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=206619_05-16-2020_headline&utm_term=6321775 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2Bem7oj7yS%2BTwCX8aWEw_VofQDE9XNtNPBQKTOjdnhsTeg%40mail.gmail.com >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2Bem7oj7yS%2BTwCX8aWEw_VofQDE9XNtNPBQKTOjdnhsTeg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- >>> Sent from Gmail Mobile >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYK2fXOvQ7w1y_cnUrHmV8r9jRGKoPqCAYhjqviaEMgMcw%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYK2fXOvQ7w1y_cnUrHmV8r9jRGKoPqCAYhjqviaEMgMcw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/7dd2a233-be42-4984-bf10-7e915cb52ebf%40Spark >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/7dd2a233-be42-4984-bf10-7e915cb52ebf%40Spark?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> Sent from Gmail Mobile >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLdUG8dNN%3D7A5ajaL-K-5o9oQ2r2aF03u9stq30soNxsw%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLdUG8dNN%3D7A5ajaL-K-5o9oQ2r2aF03u9stq30soNxsw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAH5J8yxM3vMknEdNQb54BFR8mzfCZdHa095BFGvCQuyVNzzFQA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAH5J8yxM3vMknEdNQb54BFR8mzfCZdHa095BFGvCQuyVNzzFQA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. 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