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13:20 ITV Racing. 15:00 Sports Special 2 – see Sports Special 1. 15:45 Half-Time Scores – the half-time scores from that day's football, plus racing results from races that had taken place in the previous hour. 16:00 Wrestling – a mainstay of the World of Sport schedule from 1965 until it ended.
Until the mid-1980s, horse racing was shown regularly on ITV. Racing was a mainstay of World of Sport throughout the programme's run with the ITV Seven featuring almost every week. ITV also showed racing during the week. ITV showed many of racing's showpiece events, including all the flat racing classics, although the channel never showed The ...
1955. 22 September – ITV is launched and sport - boxing - is part of the launch night's programmes. 12 October - ITV shows live football for the first time. They cover the second half of a floodlit friendly between Tottenham Hotspur and Vasas Budapest from White Hart Lane, although the foggy weather may have affected the broadcast.
In Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway: Behind the Screens (w/t), ITV Studios indie Lifted Entertainment and the host’s shingle Mitre Studios will take a fly-on-the-wall approach to the making ...
The overuse of football technology to support the decisions was also controversial in spite of praise by top league managers such as Arsène Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson. [citation needed] A week later saw ITV suffer their worst Saturday night ratings for five years when an average of 3.1 million viewers watched The Premiership. [13]
The newly formed British television station ITV saw televised football as an ideal way of gaining a share of the audience from their only rival broadcaster, the BBC. The BBC, meanwhile, started showing brief five-minute highlights of matches on its Saturday night Sports Special programme from 10 September 1955 until its cancellation in 1963.
4 October – The ITV Seven, a programme which shows live coverage of horse racing from racecourses around the UK, is first aired. The programme is an essential part of ITV's Saturday afternoon World of Sport show and continues until a few weeks before World of Sport ends in 1985.
ITV Racing is a programme produced by ITV Sport for races shown on ITV1 or ITV4 in the United Kingdom. The programme is referred to as Racing on STV in Northern and Central Scotland on STV . In its previous incarnation, the show was an essential part of World of Sport .