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June – BT Sport broadcasts men's tennis for the first time when it shows live coverage of the AEGON Championships tennis tournament from Queen's Club. 2015 June – The BBC's Wimbledon Tennis Championships highlights programme changes format and name, to Wimbledon 2day , with a new lighthearted magazine format, but after only one year, the format was abandoned for 2016.
Born. ( 1956-12-23) December 23, 1956 (age 67) Islington, England. Occupation (s) Music journalist, sports presenter, internet publisher. Danny Kelly (born 23 December 1956 [citation needed]) is a British music journalist, sports presenter, and internet publisher. He is the former editor of the music weekly New Musical Express and Q magazine.
Buzby was a yellow (later orange) talking cartoon bird, launched in 1976 as part of a marketing campaign by Post Office Telecommunications, which later became British Telecommunications (BT). [1] A group of runners from British Telecommunications with mascot Buzby at a fun run in London in the 1970s.
6 June – BBC1 sitcom Till Death Us Do Part begins its first series run. 11 June – BBC2 Northern Ireland goes on the air. 16 June – The Beatles perform live on BBC television's Top of the Pops, the UK's major television pop music show, for the first and only time, miming to both "Paperback Writer" and its b-side, "Rain".
BT announces a £897 million deal with UEFA to broadcast the Champions League exclusively on BT Sport from the 2015–16 season for three years, ending two decades of the competition being broadcast free-to-air on ITV. 11: Panorama becomes the first ongoing British TV programme to reach and celebrate its 60th anniversary. 12
2019. January – Just four months after going on air, Eleven Sports relinquishes most of its football rights, passing many of them onto Premier Sports. February – Amazon Prime takes over as the UK broadcaster of the tennis ATP World Tour. [100] 30 June – After 18 seasons on air, Chelsea TV closes as a linear channel.
Talksport (styled as talkSPORT ), owned by News Broadcasting, is a sports radio station in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. The station was originally launched as Talk Radio UK in 1995. Talksport's content includes live coverage of sporting events, interviews with the leading names in sport and entertainment, phone-ins and discussion.
Lucy Ward (born 15 April 1974) is a former English footballer who since 2007 has been a co-commentator for broadcasters such as BT Sport, BBC, Talksport, Channel 4 and Sky Sports working on women's and men's football. She has worked on World Cups and Olympic Games, and recently worked for Prime Video and BT Sport