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4 June – Channel 4 begins sowing live coverage of the England men's football team, doing so for the first time as part of a two-year deal which will see Channel 4 broadcast England's matches in the UEFA Nations League, European Qualifiers to UEFA Euro 2024 and International Friendlies. [294]
This is the first time that Channel 4 has broadcast this event. 12 February – Live Super League matches are broadcast on free-to-air television for the first time when Channel 4 shows the first of ten matches each season for the next two years. This is the first time in its 40-year history that Channel 4 has broadcast rugby league. [36]
As a result, the season represented the first time that all 380 matches in a Premier League season were broadcast live in the UK. [50] On 20 June 2020, Brighton & Hove Albion and Arsenal played the first Saturday 3pm Premier League game to be shown live on television in the UK, as part of "Project Restart" during the pandemic. [ 51 ]
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7 November – Coverage of American football is shown for the first time on Channel 4, beginning the channel's long association with the sport. [9] 8 November – Channel 4 shows live sport for the first time when it broadcasts coverage of a match from Division One of the National Basketball League.
1980. No events. 1981. 3 January - For the fourth and final time, highlights of the Rose Bowl Game are broadcast on Grandstand.; 1982 . 7 November – Coverage of American sport gets its first regular coverage on UK television when Channel 4 starts broadcasting American football on a weekly basis.
September – American Football returns to Channel 4 after more than a decade when the channel starts broadcasting the Sunday Night Football match. 14 September – ESPN UK starts broadcasting live coverage of all of the National Football League's Monday night matches as well as the 90-minute pre-game programme, Monday Night Countdown. [13] 2011
Channel 4 was the first British channel to broadcast American football, in 1982. [13] Coverage of the 1982 season involved broadcasting highlights of one game a week, and culminated in the first ever live broadcast of the Super Bowl in Britain, for which Channel 4 paid NBC £100,000. [14]