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Sky Sports secures live coverage of NBC's Sunday Night Football coverage and ESPN's Monday Night Football, giving Sky live rights to every NFL game during the season for the first time. [18] 9 September – The BBC announces that the NFL will return to its screens after Channel 4 opted not to renew its rights from the 2015 season after failing to reach a deal with the NFL. [19]
1982. 7 November – Coverage of American sport gets its first regular coverage on UK television when Channel 4 starts broadcasting American football on a weekly basis. [2] 1983. 30 January – Live American Football is seen in the UK for the first time when Channel 4 broadcasts live coverage of Super Bowl XVII. 1984.
Since 2002, the league has consisted of 32 teams based across the United States. Each NFL season since 2021 has started with a three-week preseason in August, followed by the 18-week regular season which runs from early September to early January, with each team playing 17 games and having one bye week. Following the conclusion of the regular ...
4 December – The standard definition feeds of BT Sport stop broadcasting on Virgin Media. 2019. 2 August – BT Sport 4K is rebranded as BT Sport Ultimate. 3 November – BT Sport ends its coverage of the WTA, having broadcast women's tennis since 2014. The rights pass to Amazon Prime for the 2020 season.
BT Sport’s renaming follows a merger with Eurosport-owners Warner Bros ... the channel will now have a dedicated brand in the UK and Ireland ahead of the start of the 2023/24 football season.
Thus, after six decades, NBC, the network that had shaped television broadcasts of football, lost its rights, thus marking the beginning of a slow decline for its sports division, culminating in the unproductive 2004–05 primetime season, when NBC carried no major sporting championships during prime time (NBC had already lost Major League Baseball broadcasting rights in 2000 and National ...
1965. 17 October – Football highlights start to be shown on ITV in the London area, ATV launches Star Soccer, with coverage of the match between West Ham United and Sheffield Wednesday. 7 November - ABC begins regional coverage in the North and Midlands, with their programme World of Soccer. 1966.
BT Sport’s renaming follows a merger with Eurosport-owners Warner Bros ... the channel will now have a dedicated brand in the UK and Ireland ahead of the start of the 2023/24 football season.