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A football programme from the 1882 FA Cup Final between Blackburn Rovers and Old Etonians sold at auction for a world record of £35,250. [17] The programme was sold by Sotheby's in May 2013 to Old Etonians Football Club. The previous record for a football programme was for the 1909 FA Cup Final contested between Manchester United and Bristol ...
BT Sport also buys the rights to the FA WSL, A-League, the Football Conference for two years with 25-30 live games a season, including the end-of-season play-offs. [9] and programming from Red Bull Media House. 1 August – BT Sport launches at 6pm. 3 August – BT Sport Films launches, showing feature-length sports documentary films.
The programme follows the same format as the BBC's Grandstand programme featuring a mix of sporting action, concluding with the day's football results. 16 August – To mark the start of Sky Sports's coverage of the Premier League , the channel launches an afternoon-long football programme called Super Sunday .
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 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.
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ATV's links with ITC Entertainment enabled fans in the US and Canada to watch the best of Midlands football, with top Star Soccer matches repackaged and syndicated, as All-Star Soccer, to television stations across the Atlantic. By 1983 the appetite for live football was growing and the FA allowed games to be shown in a deal with the BBC and ITV.