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14 August – To coincide with the BBC regaining rights to highlights of the Premier League, BBC Sport launches an afternoon-long football scores service Score Interactive. The programme is broadcast from 14:30 until 18:00 on the BBC's interactive service, the BBC Red Button. The BBC had operated an in-vision scores service on Saturday ...
The BBC and Sky Sports show a vidiprinter during their scores and results programmes. Their vidiprinters appear at the start of the 3 pm kick-offs until just after 5 pm when all the results are in although Sky Sports keeps the vidiprinter onscreen whilst the channel broadcasts its classified check and sometimes it stays on screen when the presenter goes through the updated league tables.
16 December - BBC televises a live Football League game for the first time, as they broadcast Manchester United's 4-2 win over Tottenham Hotspur. [131] They had originally planned to televise Watford v West Ham United on 28 October, [132] but the broadcast was cancelled due to industrial action that took Match Of The Day off the air for several ...
British Athletics major events: Live on BBC in 2024; London Marathon: Live on BBC until 2026; Live on Eurosport; Great North Run: Live on BBC; Great Manchester Run: Live on BBC; Big London Half: Live on BBC Red Button until 2026; Vitality London 10000: Live on BBC Red Button until 2026; Vitality Westminster Mile: Live on BBC Red Button until 2026
Initially broadcast as a MW opt-out on BBC Radio 2, The launch of Radio 5 in 1990 saw a huge increase in the level of coverage on BBC Radio. Radio 5 became BBC Radio 5 Live in 1994 and the station, which combines live news and sport, provides round-the-clock coverage of sport through both live commentary and sports news and discussion. Live ...
The demand for live televised football grew in the wake of England’s World Cup success, though the authorities remained reluctant. In April 1967, the Football League Management Committee rejected a £1m offer from BBC Television to show live League football on Thursday nights. They did, however, experiment with pay-per-view broadcasting.
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online.The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as Match of the Day, Test Match Special, Ski Sunday and Today at Wimbledon.
Sky also held the rights to show the majority of the matches from the Four Nations and the previous competition the Tri Nations live, with the other games being shown live or in highlights form on BBC Sport and Sky Sports previously showed the 2008 World Cup exclusively live with only highlights on the BBC. This agreement ended in 2012 and Sky ...