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2008. 27 June – Five decides to end its coverage of Serie A after just a single season. 29 October – MLB on Five is broadcast for the final time to co-inside with Channel 5 deciding to end its coverage of Major League Baseball due to the Global recession of 2008-09. 11–21 December – Five shows live coverage of the 2008 FIFA Club World Cup.
The satellite network showed ten matches exclusively live in the UK. July - Cable channel Wire TV agrees a deal to televise up to 40 live Conference matches, plus weekly highlights, during the 1994-95 season. 1995. The first edition of Saturday morning football-based comedy/talk show Soccer AM is broadcast on Sky Sports.
January – Just four months after going on air, Eleven Sports relinquishes most of its football rights, passing many of them onto Premier Sports. February – Amazon Prime takes over as the UK broadcaster of the tennis ATP World Tour. [107] 30 June – After 18 seasons on air, Chelsea TV closes as a linear channel.
On 21 February 2023, it was announced that BT Sport would rebrand as TNT Sports on 18 July 2023, ahead of the 2023–24 football season; the branding is derived from WBD's U.S. general entertainment channel TNT (which has historically carried sports coverage, such as the NBA; the brand had also previously operated in the UK), and has also been used by WarnerMedia sports networks in Latin and ...
This is a list of media commentators and writers in the United Kingdom on the sport of Association football. A number of football players have had a second career as writers or commentators. However, many commentators never played the game at a professional level such as Dale Rowlinson and Gaz Mallachan, yet they have gone on to become famous names associated with the game.
Football on 5. Football on 5 is the principal football programme on Channel 5 in the UK. The show first ran from May 1997 until July 2012. The show returned in August 2015 under the name Football League Tonight. For the 2016–17 Football League season the Football on 5 name was revived with the highlights show now called Football on 5: The ...
Dave is a British free-to-air television channel owned by UKTV, a subsidiary of BBC Studios. It broadcasts mainly comedy, with some factual programming. The channel took the name Dave on 15 October 2007, but it had been on air under various identities and formats since October 1998.
1982. 7 November – Coverage of American sport gets its first regular coverage on UK television when Channel 4 starts broadcasting American football on a weekly basis. [2] 1983. 30 January – Live American Football is seen in the UK for the first time when Channel 4 broadcasts live coverage of Super Bowl XVII. 1984.