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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.
TNT Sports (formerly BT Sport) is a group of pay television sports channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe and BT Group, they first launched on 1 August 2013. The channels are based at Warner Bros. Discovery's complex in Chiswick Business Park, London, having been based at Here East, the former ...
1930s to 1970s. 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 ...
1946. 7 June – BBC Television broadcasts resume. 19 October – The first live televised post-war football match is broadcast by the BBC. Twenty minutes of Barnet's home game against Wealdstone were televised in the first half and thirty five minutes of the second half before it became too dark.
1980s. 1981. Screensport is by founded Bob Kennedy. This is the first proposal for a sports channel to operate in the UK. 1982. No events. 1983. No events. 1984. February – Ahead of its launch, Screensport completes a programming deal with Trans World International, giving the channel access to events taking place around the world.
C. Timeline of sport on Channel 4. Timeline of sport on Channel 5. Timeline of cricket on UK television.
Coverage had been shown since the late 1970s and continues throughout the decade. 1982. 8 November – The newly launched Channel 4 shows live sport for the first time when it broadcasts coverage of a match from Division One of the National Basketball League. It shows highlights of the first half of the game and live coverage of the second half.
30 December and 6 January 1996 – ITV broadcasts live coverage of semi-finals and final of the inaugural Heineken Cup. [5] 1996. November – Sky Sports begins showing live coverage of England national rugby union team ’s autumn internationals, replacing the BBC which held the right for many decades. 1997.