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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.
BBC programming is also available to other services and in other countries. Since 1943, the BBC has provided radio programming to the British Forces Broadcasting Service, which broadcasts in countries where British troops are stationed. BBC Radio 1 is also carried in Canada on Sirius XM (online streaming only). The BBC is a patron of The Radio ...
29 March – The BBC covers the inaugural London Marathon, although it was not until 1984 that the BBC broadcast the event live and in full. 17 May – Sunday Grandstand launches. It broadcasts during the summer months on BBC2. [17] The programme includes weekly coverage of Sunday Cricket which had been shown on BBC2 since 1965.
BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra BBC Sounds: Original release: 1957 – present (1957–1992: BBC Radio 3 MW Summer 1992: BBC Radio 3 FM 1992-1994: BBC Radio 5 MW 1994-2023: BBC Radio 4 LW 2002-present: BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra 2018-present: BBC Sounds) Audio format: MW, digital radio and digital television: Opening theme "Soul Limbo" by Booker T ...
1938. On 24 June, the BBC broadcasts cricket - England vs Australia at Lord’s - on television for the first time.; 1956. 28 April - ITV, at that point only available in the London area and in the Midlands, shows cricket for the first time, when it broadcasts the Australian touring team's match against the Duke of Norfolk's XI at Arundel Castle.
The ICC Men's T20 World Cup, formerly the ICC World Twenty20, is a biennial T20I cricket tournament, organised by the International Cricket Council.It was held in every odd year from 2007 to 2009, and since 2010 has been held in every even year with the exception of 2018 and 2020.
Episodes examine the headlines of the week and presents features on topics such as cricket terminology and the sport's influence on the Bollywood film industry. The BBC's Test Match Special commentator Henry Blofeld appears in each episode with his 'tales from the test', where he shares stories from his travels. In one episode, Blofeld ...
BBC Television 1984–1998 TalkSPORT 2001–2015 Richie Benaud (1930–2015) New South Wales 1948–1964 Australia 1952–1964 BBC Television 1960–1999, 2007 [11] Channel 9 1977–2013 [12] Channel 4 1999–2005 [11] Channel 5 2009 [13] Harsha Bhogle: None ABC 1991–present ESPN Star Sports 1995– BBC Radio 1996-2008 [14] [15] Fox Cricket ...