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In the United Kingdom, sporting events are broadcast on several national television networks, as well as radio. Many of the sporting events are listed online or in different kind of apps. These apps are mainly designed by sport fans who want to have an easy way to find when a certain game or match is played, as well as when a race starts or ...
FA Cup: BBC One/TV 1937 – 1996, 2002 – 2008 & 2014 – present (shared with BT Sport) Wimbledon Championships: BBC TV/BBC One 1937 – present, BBC Two 1964 – present; The Boat Race: BBC TV/One 1938 – 2004 & 2010 – present (ITV covered the Boat Race from 2005 – 2009) Live England Test Cricket: BBC TV 1938 – 1998
Sky Sport Serie A. Sky Sport Tennis. Sky Sport Uno. Sky Sports. Sky Sports F1. Sky Sports News. Sky Sports Racing. Sky Sports Tennis. Sports Tonight Live.
14–25 July – Sky Sports broadcasts full live coverage of the 1991 World Student Games which are held in the UK. This is the only time that Sky has broadcast a multi-sport event and it is the only time the event has been broadcast live. 22 July – BBC1 airs an extended edition of Wogan in which Terry Wogan meets and talks to the pop star ...
The network television premiere of Ron Howard's 1985 American science-fiction drama Cocoon on ITV, starring Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Steve Guttenberg and Jessica Tandy. BBC1 airs News '39, a week of news-style programmes hosted by Sue Lawley, marking the 50th anniversary of the start of World War II. Each edition ...
22 February – The Police appear in an advert for Wrigley's chewing gum. 24 February – The BBC airs Going Straight. The sitcom is a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, newly released from the real-life Slade Prison where Porridge had been set.
2 June – Opportunity Knocks ends its run on BBC1 after four series with the 1990 final. [32] 8 June–8 July – The BBC and ITV provide television coverage of the 1990 FIFA World Cup. 15 June – The long-running children's arts and crafts series Art Attack makes its debut on Children's ITV, presented by Neil Buchanan.
4 November – BBC News Online is launched, BBC News having previously created special websites for the 1995 budget as well as this year's 1 May general election and the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. [82] 9 November – At 6pm, BBC News 24 is launched, but only on cable. It is the BBC's first new channel since BBC Two in 1964.