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June – The BBC's Wimbledon Tennis Championships highlights programme changes format and name, to Wimbledon 2day, with a new lighthearted magazine format, but after only one year, the format was abandoned for 2016. [17] September – Sky Sports shows coverage of the US Open for the final time, having shown the event every year since 1991. It ...
The last tennis match Maskell commentated on for BBC Television was the 1991 Grand Slam Cup final between David Wheaton and Michael Chang. John Barrett's broadcasting career with BBC Television began in 1971. Barrett began commentating on Wimbledon men's singles finals for BBC Television at the end of the 1970s.
Tennis Channel carriers receive a cut of profits from the service. [91] For nearly 25 years, Sky Sports was the main broadcaster of the US Open until 2015 but decided not to renew its contract to broadcast this event in 2016. Sky also previously covered Davis Cup tennis but these rights moved to the BBC and Eurosport. [92]
The BBC holds the broadcast rights for Wimbledon until 2027. [107] During the days of British Satellite Broadcasting, its sports channel carried extra coverage of Wimbledon for subscribers. One of the most notable British commentators was Dan Maskell, who was known as the BBC's "voice of tennis" until his retirement in 1991.
Annabel Nicola Croft (born 12 July 1966) is a British former professional tennis player and current radio and television presenter.As a tennis player she won the WTA Tour event Virginia Slims of San Diego and represented Great Britain in the Fed Cup and the Wightman Cup.
Osaka vocally supported parental pay for Women's Tennis Association players during a 2024 interview with the BBC. "I think it would definitely be life-changing, and I feel like having a kid ...
June – The BBC's Wimbledon Tennis Championships highlights programme changes format and name, to Wimbledon 2day, with a new light-hearted magazine format, but after only one year, the format was abandoned for 2016. [52] July – The BBC and ITV join forces to stop Sky Sports from picking up live coverage of the Six Nations Championship. The ...
Fuller was part of the team which won the bronze award in the best sports programme category at the 2009 Sony Radio Academy awards and was interviewer for BBC TV's coverage of the 2011 Open Championship golf. [4] Following the 2013 Wimbledon Championships, Fuller became the BBC's Tennis Correspondent, succeeding Jonathan Overend.