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The programme covers the English Football League, replacing EFL on Quest which had been broadcast on the Quest channel. Its launch marked a return for football highlights to terrestrial television and a return to ITV after thirteen years. [1] ITV signed a two-year deal which also includes highlights from the EFL Cup and EFL Trophy. [2] [3]
The Big Match was a British football television programme, screened on ITV between 1968 and 1992. [1]The Big Match originally launched on London Weekend Television (LWT) – the ITV regional station that served London and the Home Counties at weekends – screening highlights of Football League matches.
By 2004 following multiple mergers and the formation of ITV plc, versions of the original programme were developed for all ITV regions in England and Wales - a late night magazine show, focusing on Football League clubs, was introduced for the 2004–05 season to replace the long-standing Sunday afternoon highlights programmes owing to cutbacks at ITV plc.
26 August - Tyne Tees Television becomes the first ITV regional company to broadcast weekly Football League highlights. [82] Their programme Shoot showed filmed excerpts of matches in the north-east of England; 30 September – ITV company Anglia Television launches Match of the Week, [83] [84] which shows highlights of matches from around East ...
Previously, ITV held the rights to English top flight football highlights (both in its current iteration as the Premier League and as the old Football League First Division). It acquired the Premiership highlights in 2000 for the 2001–02, 2002–03 and 2003–04 seasons, surprising the BBC, the previous holders, and ending Match of the Day as ...
The station produced nearly all of ITV's football coverage for over a decade – including the FA Cup, UEFA Champions' League, the FIFA World Cup, the UEFA European Championship and Premier League highlights, as well as extensive live regional coverage of Football League matches involving Midlands clubs in The Central Match.
Both matches received highlights coverage from the BBC on Sports Special instead. While ITV continued to show occasional live matches from other competitions, [9] two of the regional companies began transmitting weekly highlights from the Football League in the 1962-63 season. Tyne Tees Television was first to launch.
EFL on Quest is a football highlights programme on the Quest channel in the United Kingdom. The programme covered the English Football League , taking over from Channel 5 's Football League Tonight .