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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.
1955. 22 September – ITV is launched and sport - boxing - is part of the launch night's programmes. 12 October - ITV shows live football for the first time. They cover the second half of a floodlit friendly between Tottenham Hotspur and Vasas Budapest from White Hart Lane, although the foggy weather may have affected the broadcast.
1983. March - The Football League agrees in principle an exclusive £8 million deal with video company Telejector to screen highlights of matches in pubs and clubs for the 1983-84 and 1984-85 seasons. The BBC and ITV would have no rights at all, having tabled a £5.3m bid. The agreement is subject to ratification by the 92 clubs at a meeting in ...
16 October – ITV launches its afternoon service. As part of the new service, the first episode of rural soap opera Emmerdale Farm is broadcast, produced by Yorkshire Television and ITV's first lunchtime news programme, First Report, is shown. ITV Schools is now shown in a single morning block, between the hours of 9:30am and 12pm.
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.
Television coverage was threatened in 1983 by a bid from Telejector, to screen live League football exclusively in pubs, bars and clubs. However, the authorities decided to maintain their relationship with BBC and ITV and a deal was struck for the start of the 1983–84 campaign that allowed both companies to screen five live League matches per ...
The Daily Express National Five-a-Sides was an annual indoor football tournament for Football League clubs across England, with Scottish League clubs invited on occasions. [4] The competition was contested between 1968 and 1986 (and televised up to 1983). [1]
ITV Sport was created as an umbrella brand for sport programmes on the ITV network; no programmes were actually produced by ITV Sport during this time, but rather the 15 ITV companies each produced sports shows for the umbrella brand, such as World of Sport by LWT and Midweek Sports Special by Thames Television.