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Keith Macklin (19 January 1931 – 1 August 2009) was a British
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, broadcaster and sports commentator. He began his career with the
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in the north of England, where he commentated on
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for the North of England
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in the 1950s and 1960s. These broadcasts are largely unrecorded on the
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as it mainly uses the London edition of '' Radio Times'' and only has skeleton listings for the other regional Home Services. Genome does list an array of BBC work including contributions to ''
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'' when it was broadcast from the north, much presentation work on religious programmes including '' Songs of Praise'' and '' Sunday Half Hour'', and a stint as presenter of ''
Rugby Special {{unreferenced, date=February 2021 ''Rugby Special'' was the main rugby union programme on the BBC in the UK. The show ran from 1966 and past presenters included David Vine, Keith Macklin, Cliff Morgan, Chris Rea, Nigel Starmer-Smith, Bill Beaum ...
'' (usually covering rugby union), national coverage of rugby league for BBC Radio 2, a TV series of hospital visits entitled ''A Spoonful of Sugar'' in 1967/8 and a ''Sport of the Day'' Saturday BBC2 series in 1965.Genome listings
/ref> Macklin was also a presenter on ''
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'' in the mid 1960s and became a regular contributor to BBC Radio Merseyside in its infancy, covering sport. In 1969, he was the first presenter of the BBC programme ''
Pot Black ''Pot Black'' was a snooker tournament in the United Kingdom broadcast on the BBC. Each match was contested over a single , where other tournaments were significantly longer. The event carried no ranking points, but played a large part in t ...
'', and shortly afterwards he joined
Yorkshire Television ITV Yorkshire, previously known as Yorkshire Television and commonly referred to as just YTV, is the British television service provided by ITV Broadcasting Limited for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV (TV network), ITV network. Until 19 ...
as a football commentator, where he would remain until 1976. He also commentated on the
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for the ITV network, covering the only full international match ever played between the West and East German national sides, and presented the religious series ''Junior Sunday Quiz'' for YTV. Subsequently, he worked for
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and reappeared as a reporter for ITV's ''Football First'', which was later rebranded ''The Goal Rush'' in the late 1990s and early 2000s. During the 2000s, he worked as a rugby league reporter for BBC local radio stations in the North West of England. His works include: *''The Rugby League Game'' (1967) *''The History of Rugby League'' (1974) *''The Story of Rugby League'' (1984)


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1931 births 2009 deaths British male journalists Snooker writers and broadcasters British association football commentators English rugby league commentators BBC people {{UK-journalist-stub