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English Football League. All televised EFL games are broadcast on Sky Sports, with two games (usually Championship) per weekend broadcast at 20:00 on a Friday and 12:30 on a Saturday. Other games may be additionally scheduled at different times, such as 17:30 on Saturday, 12:00 on Sunday or, very occasionally, 20:00 on a Monday.
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. [2] 1983. 30 January – Live American Football is seen in the UK for the first time when Channel 4 broadcasts live coverage of Super Bowl XVII. 1984.
1960 Summer Olympics. CBS paid $394,000 ($3.11 million in 2023) for the exclusive rights to broadcast the Games in the United States. This was the first Summer Olympic games to be telecast in North America. In addition to CBS in the United States, the Olympics were telecast for the first time in Canada (on CBC Television) and in Mexico (through ...
ITV showed live coverage of semi-finals and final of the very first [7] and for a single single season in 2001, when Premium TV failed to launch its channel on time, which it used to bolster the ITV Sport Channel. ITV resumed its coverage of the tournament in 2022 when it replaced Channel 4 as the event's terrestrial broadcaster.
After Sky Sports' six-year contract with Matchroom ended in 2021, Sky announced it had signed a new contract with Top Rank and BOXXER to broadcast live coverage of their fights until 2025. [ 90 ] Anna Woolhouse is the lead presenter, alongside former boxers, Johnny Nelson , Spencer Oliver , Paulie Malignaggi , Carl Froch and Tony Bellew , with ...
This is the first time that a live match from domestic rugby union had been shown in the UK. 30 December and 6 January 1996 – ITV broadcasts live coverage of semi-finals and final of the inaugural Heineken Cup. [5] 1996. November – Sky Sports begins showing live coverage of England national rugby union team’s autumn internationals ...
28 May - Full live coverage of the European Cup Final is seen on British screens for the first time. [54] 8–29 June – The 1958 FIFA World Cup is covered live by BBC Television and, for the first time, by ITV. Ten live matches are made available via Eurovision. All were shown by the BBC, [54] while seven were taken by the commercial network ...
It broadcast a range of archive sports coverage but with an emphasis on football. The channel closed at midnight on 1 August 2013. Programming was available in only standard-definition format. ESPN launched on in the UK on 3 August 2009. [2] The channel marked ESPN's first foray into live coverage of domestic sports events in the UK.