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Sports programming. FA Cup: BBC One/TV 1937 – 1996, 2002 – 2008 & 2014 – present (shared with BT Sport) Wimbledon Championships: BBC TV/BBC One 1937 – present, BBC Two 1964 – present; The Boat Race: BBC TV/One 1938 – 2004 & 2010 – present (ITV covered the Boat Race from 2005 – 2009) Live England Test Cricket: BBC TV 1938 – 1998
June – BT Sport broadcasts men's tennis for the first time when it shows live coverage of the AEGON Championships tennis tournament from Queen's Club. 2015 June – The BBC's Wimbledon Tennis Championships highlights programme changes format and name, to Wimbledon 2day , with a new lighthearted magazine format, but after only one year, the format was abandoned for 2016.
27 April – Sunday Cricket begins broadcasting a match each week from the new Sunday League. [8] 1972. A new one-day competition, the Benson & Hedges Cup, begins and the BBC provides live coverage of a match from each round. 1975. 7–21 June – The BBC shows extensive live coverage of the first Cricket World Cup.
9 October–8 November – The BBC covers the 1987 Cricket World Cup. However, due to the time difference – the tournament is held in India and Pakistan – live coverage is restricted to the final overs of England’s matches, although England's semi-final and the final are broadcast live, and in full.
28 July–12 August – The BBC airs the 1984 Summer Olympic Games. Due to the Games taking place in Los Angeles, BBC1 stays on the air into the night to provide live coverage of the major events. 30 July. BBC1's teatime news programme reverts to its original name of Evening News and to its original broadcast time of 5:40pm.
29 March – BBC1 airs highlights of the first London Marathon under the International Athletics strand. Live coverage of the event begins the following year. March – TV-am purchases a former car showroom in Camden as its headquarters. The building is subsequently renovated to create the Breakfast Television Centre. April
January. 2 January – The first episode of the science fiction series Blake's 7 is broadcast on BBC1. 4 January – The first edition of the arts series The South Bank Show is broadcast, presented by Melvyn Bragg and replaces Aquarius. 8 January – All Creatures Great and Small debuts on BBC1. 20 January – The first of ITV's occasional An ...
January. 1 January. BBC1's New Year's Eve special Live into 85, broadcast from Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland, ends broadcasting in England, Wales and Northern Ireland as scheduled 40 minutes earlier than in Scotland after a series of disasters brought on by poor organisation from the production team. [1]