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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.
Timeline of other British sports channels. This is a timeline of sports channels in the UK other than Sky Sports, BT Sport and Premier Sports / FreeSports. The timeline also includes sports events which were shown on non-sports non-terrestrial channels. The timeline also includes sports coverage broadcast on streaming services.
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 ...
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.
BT Sport begins showing MotoGP. Coverage is more extensive than that shown by the BBC as it includes free practices and qualifying as well as full coverage of Moto2 and Moto3. 17 March – ITV becomes the broadcaster of the new Formula E series, showing the 10 events on ITV4. 9 October Motors TV launches on Freeview. 2015
4 November-12 December – FreeSports broadcasts cricket's 2017–18 Bangladesh Premier League. 2018. Premier Sports and Freesports broadcast live and also highlights of the speedway leagues Sweden's Elitserien and the Polish PGE Ekstraliga. 12 February – FreeSports televised pool for the first time.
ITV shows full live coverage, mainly on ITV4, as opposed to the partial coverage shown by the previous rights holder, the BBC. This is the first time since 1968 that ITV has shown coverage of one of the sport's big four tournaments. 2013. No events. 2014. January – BT Sport replaces Sky Sports as broadcaster of the Women's Tennis Association.
1995. January – ITV loses rights to Frank Warren's Sports Network fights to Sky Sports. [2] October – ITV resumes its coverage of boxing, albeit for lower profile fights. 1996. 16 March – The fight between Frank Bruno and Mike Tyson is the UK's first television pay-per-view event. 1997.