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The Big Match was a British football television programme, screened on ITV between 1968 and 1992. [1]The Big Match originally launched on London Weekend Television (LWT) – the ITV regional station that served London and the Home Counties at weekends – screening highlights of Football League matches.
ITV also resurrects The Big Match as the title for its football coverage. 12 December – ITV launches ITV2 and part of its schedule is for additional sports coverage. Among the output is a Saturday afternoon scores service called Football First .
ITV also resurrects The Big Match as the title for its football coverage. 10 September – MUTV launches. [218] 1 October – Sky Digital launches and this is marked by the launch of the UK's first rolling sports news channel Sky Sports News with football news a mainstay of the new service.
Sinstadt covered four World Cups for ITV, from 1970 in Mexico to 1982 in Spain, with the main matches he covered including the live 1978 third-place play-off between Brazil and Italy, and the 1982 semi-final between France and West Germany. [4] He was also part of the ITV team at the European Championships in Italy in 1980. [5]
In subsequent years, Brian Clough also appeared frequently with Moore as a pundit on ITV. Although primarily a commentator, Moore also presented a number of other ITV Sport shows, including Saturday lunchtime preview On the Ball, Sunday highlights show The Big Match and Midweek Sports Special.
By 1983 the appetite for live football was growing and the FA allowed games to be shown in a deal with the BBC and ITV. Match of the Day Live and The Big Match Live would become the banners for TV football for the rest of the decade. Both networks continued to show highlights, however, they were invariably shunted to late night slots at a weekend.
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2 October – ITV shows a live top flight football match for the first time since 1960. This marks the start of English football being shown on a national basis rather than on a regional basis, resulting in The Big Match becoming a fully national programme. 1984