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Extract of programme for an exhibition (friendly) game between France and an English amateur team in Vincennes, France in May 1921. A matchday programme or match programme is a booklet associated with a live sporting event which details the proposed starting lineup and other details of the match. To some spectators, the purchase of a matchday ...
1 April - BSB's Sports Channel provides the first UK-wide live broadcast of a Scottish League match, the Old Firm game at Ibrox Park. [181] 14 April - BSB shows live coverage of a Scottish Cup semi-final across the UK for the first time. The match between Aberdeen and Dundee United kicks off at 3pm on the Saturday afternoon. [181]
In the winter format the main live sporting events on the programme were centred around the afternoon's 3pm football matches, with Football Focus opening the programme and Final Score closing the programme. Live coverage was mostly racing during the early part of the programme and rugby (both codes), kicking off at either 14:30 or 15:00 which ...
The demand for live televised football grew in the wake of England’s World Cup success, though the authorities remained reluctant. In April 1967, the Football League Management Committee rejected a £1m offer from BBC Television to show live League football on Thursday nights. They did, however, experiment with pay-per-view broadcasting.
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 ...
20 October – Following considerable criticism, including from the Independent Broadcasting Authority, Scottish Television reverses its 1984 changes to Scotland Today and the programme once again becomes a news broadcast with the feature elements transferred to a new lunchtime programme called Live at One Thirty.
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.
Match of the Day, the BBC's long-running football programme, was in its eighth year of terrestrial Premier League coverage and about to start a record ninth in 2000. Bidding for a further three seasons to the Premier League panel, the broadcaster went in as favourites to retain the exclusive highlights package.