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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
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]
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]
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.
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.
Where fans can watch, listen to or follow the matchup between Mark Stoops and the Wildcats and Billy Napier and the Gators.
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]
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 ]