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For the 2016–17 season, BT Sport acquired rights to the Saturday evening Premier League matches and BT Sport decided to launch a new Saturday afternoon schedule. As part of this new line-up, BT Sport decided to launch a football scores service. The programme was launched on 13 August 2016.
Premier League deal, launch. News of BT's first foray into sports broadcasting first came about on 12 June 2012, when it was announced that they had won the rights to 38 live Premier League matches for three seasons from the 2013–14 season, beating ESPN UK, which had held the shared rights with Sky Sports the previous season.
The main broadcasters in the United Kingdom and Ireland, in current contract (2023-25), are Sky Sports (128 of the 200 televised games in the UK and Ireland), TNT Sports (52), and Amazon Prime Video (20) (UK version) / Premier Sports (53) (Ireland only). The BBC shows weekly highlights of the Premier League on its Match of the Day and Match of ...
From the 2013–14 Premier League season, the rights to mobile highlights have been sold to News UK, ESPN is not thought to have submitted a bid. Post-closure. On 25 February 2013, BT agreed to acquire ESPN's UK and Ireland TV channels business and part of the agreement saw one of BT Sport's channels retaining the ESPN name.
Broadcasting contracts for rugby league (television) 10 live matches per season on BBC TWO until 2026, including two play off matches. 5 matches live on BBC iPlayer. Highlights of Grand Final. 20 live streamed matches from Challenge Cup, League 1, Women's Super League and Wheelchair Rugby League via The Sportsman.
21 August – Serie A football returns to BT Sport after having been shown by other broadcasters since 2018. The new deal sees BT Sport showing six matches per round for the next three seasons. 2022. 11 April – BT Sport secures the rights to show live coverage of the Canadian Premier League. 1 August – BT Sport ESPN is renamed BT Sport 4. 2023
TNT Sports 4. TNT Sports 4 is a British sports television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery Sports and the BT Group. It is part of the TNT Sports group of channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and is predominantly focused on sports from North America . The channel was established by ESPN Inc. on August 3, 2009 as ESPN (or ESPN UK ...
If a comparison is made among the 5 big soccer leagues, the Premier League is by far the one that receives the most money for overseas TV rights. The EPL is the only league to cash in more than €1 bn in a season (€1.58bn), followed by LaLiga (€897m), Serie A (€371m), Bundesliga (€240m) and Ligue 1, with €80m.