The Sporting Globe

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The Sporting Globe
Type Semi-weekly newspaper (1922–1979)
Weekly newspaper (1979–1996)
Format Tabloid
Owner(s) The Herald and Weekly Times
Founded22 July 1922
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publication2 September 1996
City Melbourne
CountryAustralia
ISSN 1030-0317

The Sporting Globe was a newspaper published in Melbourne from 1922 until 1996.

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Establishment

The first issue of the paper was published on 22 July 1922 and, for the first four weeks, it was published only on Saturday evenings. On 16 August 1922, a Wednesday afternoon edition was also introduced. [1] Printed on pink paper, the paper was published by Walter R. May for The Herald and Weekly Times at the corner of Flinders and Russell streets, Melbourne. [2]

Initially the Saturday edition was priced at 2d, and the larger Wednesday edition at 3d. With the introduction of the Wednesday edition, the paper also widened its coverage beyond purely sport, acquiring the subtitle "A Journal of Sport, the Stage and the Screen". However, during 1924, it dropped the subtitle and returned to covering purely sport.

The Saturday edition of the newspaper played an important part in Melbourne's football culture, particularly before the introduction of television to Australia in 1956: the newspaper was released one to two hours after the completion of the afternoon's Victorian Football League games, and contained results and match reports.

Demise

Former writers at the newspaper noted that the expansion of television coverage of football reduced the Sporting Globe's utility and readership, along with the preference for cars over public transport; ultimately the Saturday evening edition was discontinued in 1979, [3] with the final Wednesday edition being published on 2 September 1996. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Sporting Globe". Paperworld.com. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "The Sporting Globe". No. 1. 22 July 1922. p. 6.
  3. 1 2 Paul Amy (2 September 2016). "The Sporting Globe changed the way football in Melbourne was covered". Leader. Retrieved 2 September 2016.


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