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ITV Sport is the sports department of ITV plc, which produces and presents sports programming for the ITV network and ITVX. The branding was originally introduced in 1985 as an umbrella title for networked sports programming produced by ITV's regional franchises.
June – ITV Sport takes over as terrestrial broadcaster of tennis’ French Open. [28] ITV shows full live coverage, mainly on ITV4, as opposed to the partial coverage shown by the previous rights holder, the BBC. This is the first time since 1968 that ITV has shown coverage of one of the sport's big four tournaments.
ITV Sport has broadcast many boxing matches over the years under the Big Fight Live banner and the sport was a regular fixture on ITV screens until the mid 1990s when ITV lost its two premier contracts to Sky Sports [62] In 2005, ITV returned to the ring when it reached an agreement to broadcast the main share of Frank Warren's Sports Network ...
There were two spinoff channels, ITV Sport Plus and ITV Sport Select, the latter used to show the on-demand Premier League football matches from Sky Sports. Whilst football was the mainstay of the channel, it showed the ATP Masters Series, British basketball and European Cup rugby union.
ITV Sport Channel was a short-lived digital sport television channel, that was owned by Carlton Communications and Granada plc. It was launched on 11 August 2001 and closed on 12 May 2002, precipitating ITV Digital 's collapse over a month later.
INTERVIEW: Four decades of free-to-air Tour de France coverage is coming to an end in the UK and Boulting, the voice of ITV’s long-running broadcasts, believes it is a symptom of the decline of ...
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ITV Racing is a programme produced by ITV Sport for races shown on ITV1 or ITV4 in the United Kingdom. The programme is referred to as Racing on STV in Northern and Central Scotland on STV . In its previous incarnation, the show was an essential part of World of Sport .