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In 1972 it changed to The ITV Seven, reflecting the number of races it showed each week. The ITV Seven was also the title of an accumulator bet where vast sums of money could be won if you correctly predicted the winners of all seven races. The feature was sometimes known (especially in later years) as the ITV Six, the ITV Five or even the ITV ...
Most of the show was focussed around three popular segments – On the Ball (a preview of the day's football action), the ITV Seven (horse racing), and wrestling with commentator Kent Walton - alongside a results section to close the programme. Coverage of other sports was mostly restricted to the part of the first hour of the programme, and ...
No events. 1955. ITV launches, and shows horse racing from its earliest days on air. 1956. The BBC shows Glorious Goodwood for the first time. 1957. No events. 1958. 10 October – The first edition of multi-sport Saturday afternoon television show Grandstand is broadcast and throughout the programme's history, horse racing is a regular feature ...
[44] 60 days of racing are shown on ITV4, and 40 days of racing are shown on ITV. ITV had previously shown horse racing since its first weeks on air in 1955, and in the 1970s it provided an alternative to BBC coverage with the ITV Seven which featured as part of the channel's World of Sport programme. This lasted until the early 1980s, when ...
ITV continued to broadcast coverage of The Derby, simulcasting Channel 4's coverage, but stopped doing so after the 1988 event and this was the last time that horse racing was broadcast on ITV until 2017. On 1 January 2016 it was announced ITV Sport had won rights to be the exclusive free to air home of British Horse Racing from 1 January 2017 ...
Saturday 10 June (Race Day 6) 10:30 – Solo Warm-Up (1-lap) 11:20 – Celebrating 100 years of Sidecars at the TT. 12:15 – Senior TT (6-laps) What is the starting order for each class?
4 October – The ITV Seven, a programme which shows live coverage of horse racing from racecourses around the UK, is first aired. The programme is an essential part of ITV's Saturday afternoon World of Sport show and continues until a few weeks before World of Sport ends in 1985.
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