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27 October – Instead of showing pages from the BBC's digital text service during BBC Two's overnight downtime, the channel instead launches This is BBC Two which is a loop of forthcoming BBC Two programmes. 21 December – The final edition of ITV's early morning news programme ITV News at 5:30 is broadcast. Consequently, apart from special ...
The BBC shows a live First Division football match for the final time as coverage of football's top division moves in its entirety - both live and recorded - to ITV for the new season. Consequently, Match of the Day ends as a weekly programme. Summer – The BBC announces that it will end all coverage of darts apart from the World Championships ...
From 13 June 2011, three more bulletins were added to provide more news content for viewers in the UK overnight and in the Asia-Pacific region in the mornings. They are shown as part of the BBC's Newsday, these are simulcast on BBC One, airing at 45 past the hour between 01:45 and 04:45 UK Time. Until April 2023 it was known as BBC Sport Today.
The classified results were followed by the pools news and score draws and then by the league tables, although the pools news element was dropped due to its decline. Whilst football was always the mainstay of Final Score, news and results from other sports, such as rugby union, and until 1987 racing results, were also included.
22 August – The first broadcast of the BBC's football television show Match of the Day. It is shown on the recently launched BBC Two. 1965. 17 October – Football highlights start to be shown on ITV in the London area, ATV launches Star Soccer, with coverage of the match between West Ham United and Sheffield Wednesday.
Pages from Ceefax is broadcast across the UK on BBC1 for the final time as from the following day, all overnight downtime is replaced by an overnight simulcast of BBC News 24. The launch of BBC News 24 sees the BBC introduce a teletext service for the channel. However it is not known as Ceefax despite carrying many of the same pages. November ...
Football, cricket, rugby union, rugby league, snooker, motorsport and several other sports had message boards embedded into 606. On 24 January 2011, it was announced the 606 forum would close at the end of the 2010–11 football season, due to cuts in the BBC's online budget of 25% . [4] The forum finally closed on 31 May 2011. [5]
Sports Report is one of the longest-running programmes on British radio, and is the world's longest-running sports radio programme. [1] It started on 3 January 1948, [2] and has always been broadcast from 17:00 on Saturday evenings during the football season, for most of its history featuring two readings of the classified football results, although the length of the programme has varied in ...