Basketball, unfortunately, has become a semi-invisible sport on free television. There are no thematic windows, in the news the news of the basket pass, if anything, by glancing, and the agonizing encounters of the selection of circumstances for the World Cup, Matches that are being offered on Teledeporte are not promoted and the audience is not encouraged. Basketball has become a sport limited to payment platforms just when there is more quality on Spanish courts and the women’s league fades from the TVE grid.
The late coach Pedro Ferrándiz evokes the most willful stage of a sport that has given so much joy to the spectators.
In the 1960s and 1970s, within the programming that existed, there were relatively many broadcasts, following in the footsteps above all of European Real Madrid, directed by Ferrándiz and later by Lolo Sainz, together with the memory of the children of the transition together with a Brabender, Walter, Luyk, Cabrera or Corbalan. Díaz Miguel’s success with the national team cannot be understood without Ferrándiz and the push in the 80s comes from the time when the first American players arrived in Spain. And the 80s of the Angelina silver are decisive to cement the immense quarry of the so-called ÑBA and the feminine boom.
In order for all of this to take shape over time and for Ferrándiz’s work to be enjoyed on black and white televisions, TVE needed to echo this sport, usually after hours, taking away portions from children’s programming, which was good for forge future fans.
And those wonderful Real Madrid Christmas Basketball Tournaments? What do you remember? Well, keep reading… Come back to 1974, when Héctor Quiroga broadcasts the match between Real Madrid and North Carolina. Here your entry –> https://t.co/OPAnFZglHC #FelizJueves pic.twitter.com/dze1brDsii
— RTVE Archive (@ArchivoRTVE) December 30, 2021
It was the plot in which the timbre voice of Héctor Quiroga, who died shortly after the 1984 Games, José Félix Pons or Pedro Barthe, who always bowed in their spirited exclamations to two-tone tones. Basketball began to be a great show thanks to all of them. Reducing this sport to paid media is limiting the potential of a discipline that has always been exciting.
A magnificent documentary that continues the tradition of the Robinson Report. Leave for another occasion the analysis of the 84-92 period in which basketball, with everything in its favor, was lost in mist, jealousy and wounded egos in which the only culprit seemed to be Antonio Diaz Miguel: UNFAIR
– Ramón Trecet (@trecet) January 3, 2021
