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1 April - BSB's Sports Channel provides the first UK-wide live broadcast of a Scottish League match, the Old Firm game at Ibrox Park. [181] 14 April - BSB shows live coverage of a Scottish Cup semi-final across the UK for the first time. The match between Aberdeen and Dundee United kicks off at 3pm on the Saturday afternoon. [181]
9 November – BBC News 24, the corporation's UK television news service, launches at 17.30. It is initially only available to viewers with cable television, but is simulcast on BBC1 overnight. December – ITN purchases a 49% share of Euronews [18] and supplies the content of the channel along with the remaining shareholders. However, carriage ...
This is the latest horse-racing event the BBC loses to Channel 4. The BBC broadcasts cricket for the first time in more than seven years when it shows highlights of the 2006-07 Ashes series. 2007. The BBC shows coverage of the NFL for the first time. 28 January – The final edition of Grandstand is broadcast after nearly 49 years on air.
The BBC News at One achieved an average reach of 2.7 million viewers per bulletin in 2007, making it the most watched programme on UK daytime television. [1] During the COVID-19 pandemic , audiences reached 4.2 million viewers in 2020.
It had originally been planned to end immediately after the election but continues for an extra week-and-a-half to cover the latest political stories as the new Government began work. The UK rolling coverage had been broadcast between 9am and 8pm. [85] 2025. 15 January – BBC Breakfast stops being aired on the BBC News Channel during the week ...
14 July – Watchdog launches as a stand-alone programme on BBC1, [25] having previously been a segment within the teatime news magazine programmes Nationwide and Sixty Minutes. 27 July – BBC2 airs "Blues Night", an Arena special dedicated to the Blues and featuring artists from the genre, including Sonny Boy Williamson , B. B. King , Blind ...
1970. 31 May-21 June – ITV introduces a studio panel, joining presenters Brian Moore and Jimmy Hill to analyse the latest action in the 1970 World Cup.This is the first time a studio panel of pundits had been seen as part of UK sporting coverage.
It is branded as ITV1 in most of the UK except for central and northern Scotland, where it is branded as STV. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition, eliminating what had been the monopoly of BBC Television (established in 1936). [1] ITV is the oldest commercial network in the UK.