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To ensure boxing continues on Sky Sports, Sky announces two new boxing contracts, with Top Rank for American and international boxing, and with BOXXER in the UK. [69] The first event from Sky's new deal with Top Rank takes place on 12 June. 13 August – Sky Sports replaces BT Sport as broadcaster of Germany's Bundesliga and Supercup. [70]
In July 2006, Sky Sports HD2 launched on Sky channel 409, at the same time, the original HD channel was renamed Sky Sports HD1 and moved to channel 408, with Sky Sports News switching to channel 405. There was also a HD version of PremPlus, called PremPlus HD , which broadcast on Sky channel 483 until the football season ended.
From the 2009/10 season, live coverage of the Football League returned to British terrestrial television for the first time since 2001, with the BBC securing ten live Championship (second tier) games per season, as well as Football League highlights after Match of the Day. Sky also showed live lower league football, while Setanta also showed ...
Oh, and while boxing day has nothing to do with the sport, "football" (soccer to us Americans) is huge on December 26 in the U.K. Prior to the advent of television, you would have found fans ...
The 2022 Premier League Boxing Day fixtures saw the return of domestic top flight football for the 2022–23 Premier League season, following the six-week break for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. [57] In Italy, Boxing Day football was played for the first time in the 2018–19 Serie A season. The experiment was successful, with Italian stadiums 69% ...
English Football League Sky Sports 2024/25 to 2028/29: 328 Championship matches, 248 League One matches, 248 League Two matches and all 15 Play-off matches live via Sky Sports or Sky Sports + ITV Highlights until 2027; five live matches in 2024-25 season with 10 live matches in 2025-26 and 2026-27 season [9] EFL Cup: Sky Sports
The Sky Sports 1 simulcast returned for the 2013–14 season as part of Sky Sports 1's new all-day Saturday football service. [4] For the 2014–15 season the programme moved from Sky Sports 1 to Sky Sports 5 but reverted to Sky Sports 1 for the 2016–17 season.
3 October–2 November – ITV shows full live coverage of the 1991 Rugby World Cup, beginning a relationship with the tournament which lasts to this day. 1992. 18 May – Sky outbids ITV for the live rights to the newly formed football Premier League. Sky bids £304 million, as opposed to ITV's £262 million.