{"id":32800,"date":"2018-06-13T06:24:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T10:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=32800"},"modified":"2018-06-13T06:24:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T10:24:41","slug":"bbc-tribute-to-paddy-feeny-1931-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/bbc-tribute-to-paddy-feeny-1931-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC tribute to Paddy Feeny (1931-2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SX-99-Dial-Nar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14917\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SX-99-Dial-Nar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"751\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SX-99-Dial-Nar.jpg 751w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/SX-99-Dial-Nar-300x115.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p069rvkw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> via Mike Barraclough)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Paddy Feeny, the legendary voice of &#8220;Saturday Special&#8221; (now Sportsworld) for 36 years has sadly passed away aged 87 after a short illness. Paddy hosted the show from 1959 until his retirement back in 1995. BBC correspondent Mike Costello was a colleague of his, and remembers him with admiration as a genius, pioneer and meticulous professional.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p069rvkw\/player\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p069rvkw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view tribute on the BBC website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: BBC via Mike Barraclough) Paddy Feeny, the legendary voice of &#8220;Saturday Special&#8221; (now Sportsworld) for 36 years has sadly passed away aged 87 after a short illness. Paddy hosted the show from 1959 until his retirement back in 1995. BBC correspondent Mike Costello was a colleague of his, and remembers him with admiration as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,960,3],"tags":[104,7111,2177],"class_list":["post-32800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","tag-bbc","tag-paddy-feeny","tag-shortwave-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8x2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58884,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/bbc-do-we-still-need-the-pips\/","url_meta":{"origin":32800,"position":0},"title":"BBC: &#8220;Do We Still Need the Pips?&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"February 9, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Richard Langley, who shares the following piece which recently aired on BBC Radio 4 (click link below to listen): To mark the centenary of the Greenwich Time Signal on the BBC, Paddy O'Connell asks the unaskable - Do We Still Need the Pips? 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