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Live coverage of the Football League returns to British terrestrial television when the BBC secured 10 live Championship (second tier) games per season, as well as Football League highlights after Match of the Day. This is the first time that the BBC had the rights to the Football League, and ITV had lost them, in the Premier League era. [244]
Football, cricket, rugby union, rugby league, snooker, motorsport and several other sports had message boards embedded into 606. On 24 January 2011, it was announced the 606 forum would close at the end of the 2010–11 football season, due to cuts in the BBC's online budget of 25% . [4] The forum finally closed on 31 May 2011. [5]
The BBC shows daily live coverage of the World Snooker Championship for the first time. Match of the Day moves to Sunday afternoons for the 1980–81 season and again for the 1982–83 season. 1981. 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.
Match of the Day, the BBC's long-running football programme, was in its eighth year of terrestrial Premier League coverage and about to start a record ninth in 2000. Bidding for a further three seasons to the Premier League panel, the broadcaster went in as favourites to retain the exclusive highlights package.
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.
Whilst football was always the mainstay of Final Score, news and results from other sports, such as rugby union, and until 1987 racing results, were also included. A brief version, usually lasting for five to ten minutes, was aired in the summer during the football close season and these summer editions included a cricket scoreboard.
NFL This Week was a BBC Two show, usually airing late on a Tuesday evening or shortly after midnight. [3] [4] The NFL Show was hosted by BBC Breakfast presenter Dan Walker, who took over from Mark Chapman. For the 2022 season, the NFL announced that they had reached a partnership with commercial broadcaster ITV for three years.
The 2003–04 season was the 124th season of association football in England. Arsenal completed the season without losing a league match, becoming Premier League champions in the process. Leeds United avoided going into administration, but were unable to avoid relegation and lost their place in the Premier League - along with Leicester City and ...