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This is ITV's first football results programme for six years. 1999. 26 February - Oxford United v Sunderland is the first competitive pay-per-view (PPV) football match to be broadcast on Sky television. September – Champions on 28 and Champions on 99 launch to provide live and recorded coverage of the UEFA Champions League.
The following is a list of most watched programmes, excluding sporting events and news coverage. The mid-1980s introduction of in-week repeat showings accounts for six of the top ten programmes. On this measure, the 1996 Christmas edition of Only Fools and Horses is, not including figures for repeats, the most-watched non-documentary programme ...
ITV also resurrects The Big Match as the title for its football coverage. 12 December – ITV launches ITV2 and part of its schedule is for additional sports coverage. Among the output is a Saturday afternoon scores service called Football First. This is ITV's first results programme for six years. 1999
ITV had been broadcasting its own lunchtime football preview programme for the previous six years. The BBC shows darts for the first time when it covers that year's British Open. 1975. 9 August – Sportscene is broadcast for the first time, mainly to show highlights of Scottish football although the programme also covers other sports.
English football on television has been broadcast since 1938. Since the establishment of the Premier League in 1992, English football has become a very lucrative industry. As of the 2013–14 season, domestic television rights for the 20-team Premier League are worth £1 billion a year. [1]
A typical edition would be broadcast between 12:15 and 17:10 and would take on the following format. [2] 12:20 On The Ball – football preview with Brian Moore and in later years Ian St. John and Jimmy Greaves.
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online.The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as Match of the Day, Test Match Special, Ski Sunday and Today at Wimbledon.
Jeff Stelling joined the programme in 1994 and became its sole presenter a year later. From the start of the 1998/99 season, it became a football-only programme and accordingly the name of the programme changed to Soccer Saturday. Prior to May 2010, portions of the programme were simulcast on Sky Sports 1 as well as Sky Sports News. The ...