↑ 8.0 8.1 Issue 706 of Radio Times detailing the 14th April game. Issue 706 of Radio Times helped to document an historic moment in television and snooker history. Like all early television transmissions, both exhibition matches were televised live and there were limited viable means of recording television prior to the Second World War, with recording seldom having occurred until video tape was perfected in the late-1950s.