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NFL timeline. 1920–1932: The Birth of the NFL. 1933–1939: Start of Championship Game. The 1940s: World War II mergers. The 1950s: AAFC merger. The 1960s: NFL and AFL. The 1970s: AFL–NFL merger. The 1980s and 1990s: Relocation and expansion. The 2000s: Realignment.
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.
The history of the National Football League on television documents the long history of the National Football League on television.The NFL, along with boxing and professional wrestling (before the latter publicly became known as a "fake" sport), was a pioneer of sports broadcasting during a time when baseball and college football were more popular than professional football.
1972. ITV shows darts on a national basis for the first time as part of its World of Sport programme when it shows coverage of that year's News of the World Darts Championship. 1973. 20-22 September - ITV shows the Ryder Cup for the first time. 1974. 31 August – ITV shows the first edition of the World Masters (darts).
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.
In recent seasons Sky had shared the rights with BT Sport. 6 August – Sky announces that Sunday Supplement will not be returning for the 2020/21 season. 3 September – Sky Sports NFL launches. It is an in-season rebrand of Sky Sports Action and provides round-the clock coverage of the NFL.
Channel 4 also covers the 1984 events. 7–14 August – Channel 4, in conjunction with ITV, broadcasts live coverage of the first World Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland. 1984. 22 March – Horse racing coverage is broadcast on Channel 4 for the first time, resulting in the launch of Channel 4 Racing.