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On 2 August 2019, BT Sport relaunched its 4K channel as BT Sport Ultimate, and began to offer Dolby Atmos sound and high dynamic range (HDR) on supported devices. [24] On 20 June 2019, BT Sport announced an agreement to carry the programming and pay-per-views of U.S. professional wrestling promotion WWE , ending a relationship with Sky Sports that dated back to the network's launch in 1989.
7 May – BT Sport acquires the rights to air Ultimate Fighting Championship events and taped programming in the UK and Ireland for three years, from 1 August. [7] 9 May – It is announced that BT Sport had acquired an exclusive five-year deal to broadcast MotoGP races from the 2014 season, including free practices and qualifying as well as full coverage of Moto2 and Moto3. [8]
BT Sport (2020–present) Vicki Sparks: None BBC Radio 5 Live BT Sport: Joe Speight None Setanta Sports (2007–2009) ESPN (2009–2013) ITV Sport (2011–present) Sky Sports (2009–present) BT Sport (2014-present) Gary Taphouse: None Sky Sports (2005–present) Talksport (2014–present) Clive Tyldesley: None ITV (1987–1992, 1996–2024 ...
1 August – At midnight, and ahead of the launch of BT Sport, ESPN UK, ESPN America and ESPN Classic close - the latter was not part of the BT/ESPN deal. 9 September – Eurosport becomes the new broadcast of the NFL's Monday Night Football. Eurosport broadcasts the weekly American football game for the next two seasons.
Peter Donald Drury (born 24 September 1967) is a British sports commentator who currently works for Sky Sports in the United Kingdom and NBC Sports in the United States as the lead commentator for their Premier League coverage. Drury was formerly with ITV Sport as its second-choice football commentator, a role he had held from 1998 to 2013.
On 1 August 2013, BT launched its first television channels, BT Sport, to compete with rival broadcaster Sky Sports. Plans for the channels' launch came about when it was announced in June 2012 that BT had been awarded a package of broadcast rights for the Premier League from the 2013–14 to 2015–16 season, broadcasting 38 matches from each season. [85]
BT Sport 1 HD, BT Sport 1. European Football Show (also referred to on occasion as Sunday Night European Football [1]) was a football TV programme on BT Sport presented by James Richardson. The show was originally split into three segments. It began with a discussion between Richardson and the show's pundits of the weekend's European football ...
In 2014, WWE renewed a 5 year deal with Sky to carry programmes through the end of 2019, which included Main Event being added to the schedule. [39] [40] In June 2019, TNT Sports (then known at the time as BT Sport ) announced that they had gained the broadcasting rights for WWE in the UK; their deal began in January 2020. [41]