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On 21 February 2023, it was announced that BT Sport would rebrand as TNT Sports on 18 July 2023, ahead of the 2023–24 football season; the branding is derived from WBD's U.S. general entertainment channel TNT (which has historically carried sports coverage, such as the NBA; the brand had also previously operated in the UK), [40] and has also been used by WarnerMedia sports networks in Latin ...
Certain sporting events are protected by the Ofcom Code on Sports and Other Listed and Designated Events and must be broadcast live and free-to-air on terrestrial television in the UK. Presently, free-to-air means a TV channel which is free and covers 98% of the population. [1]
The first match shown live was a 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier between the Netherlands and England on 1 September 2017. [16] The channel also initially showed live coverage of the Primeira Liga (two games a week) & Segunda División (one game a week) [17] as well as numerous club TV shows, including Dortmund TV and AC Milan TV. [17]
This is a list of the current channels available on digital terrestrial television (DTT) in the United Kingdom, and those that have been removed.. Almost all channels broadcast on DTT are free-to-air, with a limited number of subscription channels (requiring a subscription to a pay-TV package) and pay-per-view channels (requiring a one-off payment to view an event) also available.
Soccer Saturday grew out of Sports Saturday, which started in August 1992 and was hosted by Paul Dempsey and Sue Barker. [1] Sports Saturday was similar in format to the BBC's Grandstand programme featuring a variety of sports and as with Grandstand, the programme finished with news of the day's football in a segment called Scorelines. [2]
On 11 May 2022, Warner Bros. Discovery (new company formed after merger of Discovery with WarnerMedia) announced an agreement to contribute Eurosport's UK operations into a joint venture with BT Group and BT Sport. WBD will serve as managing partner of the joint venture; the two networks will operate separately for an interim period, after which they will combine their operations under a new name.
The main broadcasters in the United Kingdom and Ireland, in current contract (2023-25), are Sky Sports (128 of the 200 televised games in the UK and Ireland), TNT Sports (52), and Amazon Prime Video (20) (UK version) / Premier Sports (53) (Ireland only).
1 September 2021 Sky Sports Action HD [n 7] 17 March 2008 Sky Sports Arena HD 18 July 2017 Sky Sports Box Office HD 100% HD 2 April 2015 Sky Sports Box Office 2 HD Independent 28 October 2020 Sky Sports Cricket HD HD/upscaled SD mix Simulcast 31 July 2006 Sky Sports Extra HD 18 July 2017 Sky Sports F1 HD: 9 March 2012 Sky Sports Football HD