Bob Colston is a broadcaster who was famous in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 as the voice of the football results on the ITV programme World of Sport

World of Sport (UK TV series)

World of Sport was a British television sport anthology programme which ran on ITV between 2 January 1965 to 28 September 1985 in response to competition from BBC's Grandstand...

 which ran from 1965 to 1985.

Whilst reading the results, Colston inflected his voice to imply the result of a match simply through his sonorous

Sonority hierarchy

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 intonation

Intonation (linguistics)

In linguistics, intonation is variation of pitch while speaking which is not used to distinguish words. It contrasts with tone, in which pitch variation does distinguish words. Intonation, rhythm, and stress are the three main elements of linguistic prosody...

 of the home team's score. Colston read the results out for many years on World of Sport right up to its cancellation. Soon afterwards the crew had its own results programmes which ran until 1992 with Colston reading the football scores. By then the results featured on the Saturday team ITN News

Independent Television News

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 bulletin which Colston did until 1996 when he joined Sky Sports

Sky Sports

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 which he sometimes did the football scores on Soccer Saturday

Soccer Saturday

Gillette Soccer Saturday is a weekly television programme broadcast on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom and Ireland during the football season. The programme updates viewers on the progress of association football games in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Saturday afternoons. The current host is...

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Trivia

• Whilst Colston was the only regular reader of the football scores for many years on ITV, Len Martin
  Len Martin
  The voice of Len Martin was famous in the UK for reading out the football results, associated football pools statistics and horse-racing results on the BBC's Saturday afternoon sports programme, Grandstand....
  
   had surpassed his longevity
  Longevity
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   on the BBC's rival programme Grandstand
  Grandstand (BBC)
  Grandstand was a British television sport programme. Broadcast between 1958 and 2007, it was one of the BBC's longest running sports shows, alongside BBC Sports Personality of the Year.Its first presenter was Peter Dimmock...
  
  from its inception in 1958 until his death in 1995.