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Timeline of other British sports channels. 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.
17 August – Premier Sports buys the rights to the French Top 14 league, usually broadcasting two live games per round. It shows the league for just a single season as the rights pass to BT Sport for the 2013/14 season. 2013. Premier Sports broadcasts 260 hours of Indoor Bowls.
22 October – Sky Sports starts showing a weekly game from the British Basketball League (BBL). 1996. Sky Sports ends its coverage of the NBA. 1997. 30 March – Channel 5 launches and it broadcasts live American sport on weeknights, including games from the NBA. 1998. 17 January – The BBC shows live coverage of the National Cup final. 1999
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.
1955-1959. 1955. 22 September – ITV is launched and sport - boxing - is part of the launch night's programmes. 12 October - ITV shows live football for the first time. They cover the second half of a floodlit friendly between Tottenham Hotspur and Vasas Budapest from White Hart Lane, although the foggy weather may have affected the broadcast.
1930s. 1936. 2 November – The BBC opens the world's first regular high-definition television service, from Alexandra Palace. 1937. 21 June – The BBC broadcasts television coverage of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships for the first time. 1938. 2 April – The BBC covers The Boat Race for the first time. 30 April – The BBC broadcasts ...
ITV shows full live coverage, mainly on ITV4, as opposed to the partial coverage shown by the previous rights holder, the BBC. This is the first time since 1968 that ITV has shown coverage of one of the sport's big four tournaments. 2013. No events. 2014. January – BT Sport replaces Sky Sports as broadcaster of the Women's Tennis Association.
Breach has also fronted coverage of the Women’s Ashes live cricket on BT Sport in 2022. Breach regularly hosts The Football Ramble alongside Pete Donaldson, and Andy Brassell, and Kate Mason, amongst others. Breach was also a guest on A Question of Sport, and presented the Premier League’s Fantasy Football Show alongside James Richardson.