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In the United Kingdom, sporting events are broadcast on several national television networks, as well as radio. Many of the sporting events are listed online or in different kind of apps . These apps are mainly designed for sport fans who want to have an easy way to find when a certain game or match is played, as well as when a race starts or ...
The Ofcom Code on Sports and Other Listed & Designated Events is a series of regulations issued originally by the Independent Television Commission (ITC) then by Ofcom when the latter assumed most of the ITC's responsibilities in 2003, which is designed to protect the availability of coverage of major sporting occasions on free-to-air terrestrial television in the United Kingdom.
National team competitions. 2022 FIFA World Cup; 2023 AFC Asian Cup; 2023 Africa Cup of Nations; 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup; 2024 Copa América; 2024 UEFA European Championship
The advent of floodlighting led to the creation of the European Cup, designed as a midweek cup competition for the champions of European nations, in 1955.The newly formed British television station ITV saw televised football as an ideal way of gaining a share of the audience from their only rival broadcaster, the BBC.
The main broadcasters in the United Kingdom and Ireland, in current contract (2023–25), are Sky Sports (128 of the 200 televised games in the UK and Ireland), TNT Sports (52), and Amazon Prime Video (20) (UK version) / Premier Sports (53) (Ireland only).
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online.The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as Match of the Day, Test Match Special, Ski Sunday and Today at Wimbledon.
4 August – ESPN launches in the UK, picking up many of the rights previously held by Setanta Sports. These inclu de the rights to the Premier League that Setanta had held. [240] [241] It later dis many other football rights to its portfolio, including the Scottish Premier League, FA Cup, [242] European club football and the Europa League [243]
ITV Sport has broadcast many boxing matches over the years under the Big Fight Live banner and the sport was a regular fixture on ITV screens until the mid-1990s when ITV lost its two premier contracts – in mid-1994 Barry Hearn took Chris Eubank and his stable of fighters to Sky Sports and at the start of 1995, Sky Sports won the rights to ...