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In April 2021, it was reported that BT was exploring a sale of all or part of BT Sport, in order to focus more on its fibreoptic services. Rumoured suitors included Amazon.com Inc. (which is one of the Premier League's current rightsholders), the sports streaming provider DAZN (which had notably beat out Sky Italia for exclusive domestic rights to Serie A football), and ESPN majority-owner ...
7 May – BT Sport acquires the rights to air Ultimate Fighting Championship events and taped programming in the UK and Ireland for three years, from 1 August. [ 7 ] 9 May – It is announced that BT Sport had acquired an exclusive five-year deal to broadcast MotoGP races from the 2014 season, including free practices and qualifying as well as full coverage of Moto2 and Moto3. [ 8 ]
Certain sporting events are protected by the Ofcom Code on Sports and Other Listed and Designated Events and must be broadcast live and free-to-air on terrestrial television in the UK. Presently, free-to-air means a TV channel which is free and covers 98% of the population. [ 1 ]
2021. 1 February – Coverage of UK greyhound racing moves to a new channel called Sporty Stuff HD, which broadcasts on satellite. The sport had previously been shown on Live 360 - an offshoot of Nigerian news channel Arise News - since the closure of Front Runner TV. Sporty Stuff also shows lesser-known motorsport events.
In October 2020, Torquay defeated Hartlepool 5–0 at Victoria Park, live on BT Sport. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] However, Hartlepool picked up three points by winning 1–0 at Plainmoor in March 2021. [ 32 ] Hartlepool's top scorer going into the final was Rhys Oates with 14 goals in the regular season before he scored an additional three goals during the play-off campaign.
4 August – BT Sport Europe is rebranded as BT Sport 3 so that it can show the full range of coverage from BT Sport. 13 August – BT Sport launches its football scores programme BT Sport Score. 19 August – Live Premier League football is shown on Friday evenings on a semi-regular basis for the first time as part of the new broadcasting deal.
The European Commission raised objections against the joint sale of media rights in 1998 and on 1 February 1999, initied its investigation into the joint selling by UEFA of the TV rights because UEFA notified the arrangement seeking for negative clearance, or respectively an exemption decision Art. 101 TFEU of the central marketing of the commercial rights to the UEFA Champions League.
Peter Donald Drury was born on 24 September 1967 in Braintree, Essex, England. [2] His father was a Church of England vicar based in Kent. [citation needed] The first club he supported as a four-year-old was West Ham United, but he has since gone on to support different clubs, most notably Watford as he now lives in Hertfordshire.