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4 August – BT Sport Europe is rebranded as BT Sport 3 so that it can show the full range of coverage from BT Sport. 13 August – BT Sport launches its football scores programme BT Sport Score. 19 August – Live Premier League football is shown on Friday evenings on a semi-regular basis for the first time as part of the new broadcasting deal.
26 April 1967 (age 57) Liverpool, England. Occupation (s) Sport presenter, broadcaster, journalist. Employer. TNT Sports. Matt Smith (born 26 April 1967) is a British broadcaster who worked with ITV Sport between 2001 and 2015. He currently presents TNT Sports ' coverage of Premier League, FA Cup, Champions League, Europa League, Conference ...
December – Sky Sports Darts appears for the first time to broadcast 24/7 coverage of the PDC World Darts Championship. 2014. 4–9 February – Eurosport shows the first edition of the BDO World Trophy. It also shows the 2015 event. 7–9 March – ITV takes over as broadcaster of the UK Open.
Television broadcasts in the United Kingdom began in 1932, however, regular broadcasts would only begin four years later. Television began as a public service which was free of advertising, which followed the first demonstration of a transmitted moving image in 1926. Currently, the United Kingdom has a collection of free-to-air, free-to-view ...
Quest is a British and Irish free-to-air television channel available in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It provides factual, lifestyle and entertainment programmes and other imported material, as well as films and sports coverage. It is operated by Warner Bros. Discovery .
In May 2018, Eleven Sports secured a three-year deal to broadcast La Liga football matches in the UK and Ireland. Two months later, they secured UK three-year deals to screen Serie A matches, the Eredivisie and the Chinese Super League and Sweden's Allsvenskan. Eleven Sports launched in the UK & Ireland with rights to the 2018 U.S. PGA.
Dave is a British free-to-air television channel owned by UKTV, a subsidiary of BBC Studios. It broadcasts mainly comedy, with some factual programming. The channel took the name Dave on 15 October 2007, but it had been on air under various identities and formats since October 1998.
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.