Important question of srsbz importantness

[calzamante]

...would a married Italian woman (oh, OK, Sammarinese) in 1986 have had her own car? And when did international qualifiers start being broadcast on TV?

One or more of these questions may be completely not that relevant to the 'plot' of my story.

AAAAH ONLY A WEEK TO GO, AAAAH.

Comments

[lemongrasstea]

Here's what David Goldblatt's The Ball in Round has to say about television broadcast of football (page 401-2):
The basic technologies of television broadcast and reception had been developed in the early 1930s and the pre-war era saw a number of limited experiments with live televising of sport. In England the BBC had trasmitted pictures of the 1938 FA Cup Final, while in Germany the 1936 Olympics were filmed for transmission to a limited audience. The lead in sports broadcasting after the war came from the United States which not only pioneered the core technologies of live broadcast, but the formal commercialisation of sports TV rights. In Europe the pre-war pioneers were the first to return to football. West German television showed live games from the Hamburg region in late 1952 and the BBC broadcast the London Olympics and the FA Cup Final in 1948. In France the first live broadcast of a game -- Stade Reims against Metz -- came as late as 1956 and television arrived in Spain and Portugal even later. In 1954 the European Broacast

[calzamante]

That's really useful, thank you. So I wouldn't be stretching it to assume Sammarinese TV broadcast their first ever official match in 1990, then. :)