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1960. ITV agrees a deal worth £150,000 with the Football League to screen 26 matches; the very first live league match was on Saturday 10 September 1960 between Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers at Bloomfield Road. The match kicked off at 6:50 pm with live coverage starting at 7:30 under the title The Big Game.
This season saw the first ever live television coverage of a Football League game, when ITV broadcast the second half of Blackpool versus Bolton Wanderers on September 10, 1960, with commentary from Peter Lloyd and Billy Wright [2] [3]
That same year, the first live league match since 1960 was shown, a First Division game on Sunday 2 October between Tottenham Hotspur and Nottingham Forest which Tottenham won 2–1. ITV's football coverage continued and expanded throughout the 1980s, particularly after ITV won exclusive league rights in 1988, after which The Big Match was ...
An early attempt at live league football was made in 1960–61, when ITV agreed a deal worth £150,000 with the Football League to screen 26 matches; the very first live league match was on Saturday 10 September 1960 between Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers at Bloomfield Road.
London Weekend Television audaciously wins exclusive rights to all league football coverage for ITV in a move termed Snatch of the Day. Although the Office of Fair Trading blocked the move, the BBC is forced to allow ITV to take over the Saturday night slot in alternating seasons, beginning with the 1980–81 season. [119] 1979. No events.
Peter Haswell Lloyd (16 November 1920 [1] – 4 May 1972 [2]) was a British television sports commentator, who specialised in football commentaries. He is notable for having given, alongside former England captain Billy Wright, the first ever live television commentary on an English Football League match, when the second half of Blackpool versus Bolton Wanderers was shown by ITV on 10 ...
Locations of the Football League First Division 1959–1960 teams. Second Division ... Ian Laschke: Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79 ...
10 September – ITV broadcasts the first live Football League match to be shown on television and the last for 23 years. [6] ... (1960–1963, 1974) 19 October ...