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Gary Winston Lineker OBE (/ ˈ l ɪ n ə k ər / LIN-ə-kər; born 30 November 1960) is an English sports broadcaster and former professional footballer.Lineker is the only player to have been the top goalscorer in England with three clubs: Leicester City, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur.
BT Sport Films are a series of feature-length sports documentary films airing on the British subscription sports channels BT Sport.While the majority of films are about football, other sports covered include rugby, cricket, boxing, UFC, judo, speedway and MotoGP.
After joining Sky, Crocker commentated regularly on Premier League matches, but was best known for his four years (1998–2002) as the voice of Scottish football, covering live matches from the Scottish Premier League, Scottish Cup and Scottish internationals. After Sky lost the rights to the SPL, Crocker became Sky's chief football league commentator between 2002 and 2006.
From there she started reporting on the NFL and joined the Soccer AM online presenting team, which included a trip to Euro 2016 in France where she broadcast live on Facebook every day. [4] [5] By 2018, Woods became a regular pitch-side reporter on Super Sunday, occasionally reporting with Gary Neville. In 2022, she left Sky Sports. [6]
1938. On 24 June, the BBC broadcasts cricket - England vs Australia at Lord’s - on television for the first time.; 1956. 28 April - ITV, at that point only available in the London area and in the Midlands, shows cricket for the first time, when it broadcasts the Australian touring team's match against the Duke of Norfolk's XI at Arundel Castle.
Following the addition of W to UKTV's free-to-air packages, the shows from the channel became available to watch for free on UKTV Play. Since 2019, the UKTV brand is fully owned by BBC Studios. [8] In August 2023, UKTV launched four FAST channels utilising the UKTV Play brand and content on platforms including Samsung TV Plus and Pluto TV. [9]
The Street is a British drama television series created by Jimmy McGovern and produced by Granada Television for the BBC.The series follows the lives of various residents of an unnamed street in Manchester and features an all-star cast including Timothy Spall, Jim Broadbent, Jane Horrocks, Bob Hoskins, and David Thewlis.
In July, Setanta launched SPL Live on Sky and shortly afterward launched Celtic TV and Rangers TV on Sky and NTL in partnership with Celtic F.C. and Rangers F.C. respectively. Earlier on in the month, the company entered into a partnership with the newly-launched Racing UK to become the channel's exclusive broadcast partner and distributor prior to its launch and encryption in September.