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Certain sporting events are protected by the Ofcom Code on Sports and Other Listed and Designated Events and must be broadcast live and free-to-air on terrestrial television in the UK. Presently, free-to-air means a TV channel which is free and covers 98% of the population. [1]
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 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).
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 rights transfer to Premier Sports. 2020. January – BT Sport takes over as broadcaster of U.S. professional wrestling promotion WWE. [28] March – BT Sport shows the Scottish Professional Football League for the final time. [29] In recent seasons BT had shared the rights with Sky Sports but new deal sees Sky obtaining all of the rights to ...
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.
Virgin TV [5] Premier Sports 1: SSBL Limited - Subscription - Premier Sports - Premium Premier Sports 2: LFC TV: Liverpool FC LFC TV: Racing TV: Racing UK Ltd. Subscription Racing TV: MUTV: Manchester United FC MUTV: GINX eSports TV: Ginx TV Ltd./Sky/ITV plc - - Sky Entertainment - Extreme Channel: AMC Networks International UK: Free-to-air IPTV -