Anyone out there know what year Crufts was first shown on tv
Thanks in anticipation

I found this which is ver interesting

Crufts is named after its founder Charles Cruft. The young Charles leaving college in 1876 had no desire to join the family jewellery business. Instead he took employment with James Spratt who had set up a new venture in Holborn, London selling "dog cakes".

Charles Cruft was ambitious and a relatively short apprenticeship as an office boy led to promotion to travelling salesman. This brought him into contact with large estates and sporting kennels. His next career move with Spratts saw him travelling to Europe and here in 1878 French dog breeders, perhaps seeing entrepreneurial talents in Cruft, invited him to organise the promotion of the canine section of the Paris Exhibition. He was still just two years out of college.

Back in England in 1886 he took up the management of the Allied Terrier Club Show at the Royal Aquarium, Westminster.

The first Crufts show in that name was booked into the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington in 1891. This was the first in a long series of shows there. During this era it was possible for individuals to run shows for personal profit, an aspect that appealed mightily to Charles Cruft, and he ran his shows with considerable profit to himself. Today there are no privately owned dog shows and permission to hold shows is granted by the Kennel Club which licenses only non-commercial organisations.

In 1938 Charles Cruft died and his widow ran the 1939 show. Three years later Mrs Cruft felt the responsibility for running the show too demanding and, in order to perpetuate the name of the show her husband had made world famous, she asked the Kennel Club to take it over and it was sold to them; 1948 was the first show under the Kennel Club auspices. Held at Olympia, it proved an immediate success with both exhibitors and the public. Since then Crufts has increased in stature year by year.

In 1979 it was decided to change the venue from Olympia to Earls Court as the increasing entries had the show bursting at the seams. In 1982 the show ran for three days and in 1987 for four days to accommodate the increasing numbers of dogs and spectators.

1991 saw the Crufts Centenary Show being held at the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre, this being the first time the show had moved from London.

2000 will be the tenth year that the show has been staged at the NEC

Cordelia

thanks
i have read this elsewhere but still can't find the answer about tv. tried bbc website but can't even find n e mail contact to send question to them
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I can remember seeing the final back in the 70's. A pyrennean Mountain Dog won it that year. Don't know if it was 'televised' as such or if they just showed the winner.

The answer is either 1950, 1960 or 1970 just not sure which?

I would think 1970 rather than 1960

I'm sure I remember seeing it televised in the 60's.  I used to go with my parents when it was at Olympia.  I loved it.  There were two days, I believe it was usually gundogs on Fridays and others on Saturdays.  You could sit around the BIS ring if you got there early enough, didn't need special tickets.  I used to get heaps of free samples to take home for the dogs.  The rings were spread with sawdust.  I remember an american lady telling me about american cockers, a breed I'd never seen then. 
Lorna