John Helm (commentator)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. John Helm (born 1942, in Baildon, Yorkshire, England) is a British sports commentator with over 25 years of network television experience, mainly with ITV. Now he is the voice of international broadcasts of the FIFA World Cup and other events. Helm has also frequently covered other sports - in the main golf, cricket and particularly rugby league both for ITV and other broadcasters. After working his way up through local and national newspapers, where he began his journalistic career in 1959, he broke into broadcasting on BBC Radio Leeds and was chosen from a number of local radio broadcasters to cover the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand. After this, he joined national BBC Radio Sport, then broadcast mainly on Radio 2's old medium wave (frequencies now used by Five Live).