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2021 Senedd election: Labour keep hold of the Senedd and match the party's best ever result, with 30 out of 60 seats. 2021 Scottish Parliament election: The SNP wins 64 seats out of 129. With the SNP and Scottish Greens both gaining seats, pro-independence parties have an increased majority in the Parliament.
9 April - The British Championship serves as a qualifying group for the 1950 World Cup. As a result, the BBC live broadcast of Scotland's 3-1 win against England at Wembley is the first World Cup match to be shown on British television. [19] 23 April - The first FA Amateur Cup Final staged at Wembley is also the first to be televised.
On 25 March 2021, Simon McCoy left the BBC after 17 years at the network. He presented his final BBC News at One on the same day. Since McCoy's departure, the programme has dispensed with a main presenter, with a team of established BBC journalists presenting the programme on rotation.
With a regular audience of three to five million, The Chase is one of the most successful and longest running game shows on UK television and one of ITV's most successful daytime shows ever. [5] The show has been nominated six times at the National Television Awards , winning in 2016 , 2017 and 2019 .
2021. January – BBC Sport shows South American football for the first time when it broadcasts the semi-finals and final of the 2020 Copa Libertadores. 3–24 April – The BBC is the exclusive broadcaster of the 2021 Women's Six Nations Championship. Previously the tournament had been shared between the BBC, and Sky Sports which had shown the ...
9 November – BBC News 24, the corporation's UK television news service, launches at 17.30. It is initially only available to viewers with cable television, but is simulcast on BBC1 overnight. December – ITN purchases a 49% share of Euronews [18] and supplies the content of the channel along with the remaining shareholders. However, carriage ...
June-17 July – During the run-up to, and for the immediate period after, the 2024 United Kingdom general election, the channel airs UK-focussed content on weekday daytime. [83] [84] 18 July – The weekday daytime UK-separate BBC News Channel service ends following the State Opening of Parliament. It had originally been planned to end ...
On 1 November 2021, Channel 5 will start to strip the UK's Strongest Man 2021 across its television schedules at 7pm each night. In 2009, Channel 5 signed a deal to broadcast highlights of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on terrestrial television in the UK. [350] In 2015, Channel 5 picked up highlights of every BAMMA event.