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Find out which TV channels and platforms have the rights to broadcast various sports events in the UK, such as football, rugby, cricket and more. See the details of the contracts, the free-to-air rules and the online options for different sports and competitions.
May – BT Sport broadcasts German domestic football for the final time. Sky Sports replaces BT Sport as broadcaster of Germany's Bundesliga and Supercup from the start of the following season. [35] 21 August – Serie A football returns to BT Sport after having been shown by other broadcasters since 2018. The new deal sees BT Sport showing six ...
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.
The National League is the fifth-highest level of the English football league system and the highest for semi-professional clubs. It was formed in 1979 as the Alliance Premier League and has undergone several name changes and sponsorship deals since then.
For the 2016–17 season, BT Sport acquired rights to the Saturday evening Premier League matches and BT Sport decided to launch a new Saturday afternoon schedule. As part of this new line-up, BT Sport decided to launch a football scores service. The programme was launched on 13 August 2016. Prior to the 2016–17 season, BT Sport had showed ...
On 10 August 2015 NBC Sports announced it had reached a six-year extension with the Premier League to broadcast the football league through the 2021–22 season. [30] [31] The value of the licensing deal rose by 100% with the deal estimated to be worth $1 billion (£640 million); double the previous value. [32]
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 ...
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]