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This is a timeline of sports channels in the UK other than Sky Sports, BT Sport and Premier Sports / FreeSports. The timeline also includes sports events which were shown on non-sports non-terrestrial channels. The timeline also includes sports coverage broadcast on streaming services.
9 April - The BBC broadcasts live television coverage of the England v Scotland international from Wembley. [2] This is the first senior match to be shown on television as it happened. The BBC Radio commentary by George Allison and Thomas Woodrooffe is broadcast with the pictures.
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. 12 June – Five’s coverage of the NHL finishes.
Sky Sports Action is rebranded as Sky Sports The Lions. This channel is dedicated to coverage of the 2021 British & Irish Lions tour to South Africa and mixes live and recorded action of the current tour with Sky's coverage of previous tours.
September – Long-form UK-based live cricket is shown for the final time on free-to-air television ahead of the full transfer of live coverage of Sky Sports. This also marks the end of Channel 4's coverage of the sport until 2019.
19–23 August – The IPC European Athletics Championships 2014 are broadcast on UK television for the first time when Channel 4 's sister channel More4 screens full live coverage of the event.
Channel 4 also covers the 1984 events. 7–14 August – Channel 4, in conjunction with ITV, broadcasts live coverage of the first World Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland. 1984. 22 March – Horse racing coverage is broadcast on Channel 4 for the first time, resulting in the launch of Channel 4 Racing.
This is a timeline of the history of ITV Sport, provider of sports coverage for the British ITV network and ITV Digital Channels .