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The launch of TNT Sports in July 2023 saw the channel renamed as TNT Sports 4 and because the deal to carry ESPN programming was not part of the transition from BT Sport to TNT Sports, the channel's association with American sports coverage ended, and with it coverage of the NCAA, which was later picked up by Sky Sports in November 2023, albeit with vastly reduced levels of coverage.
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 ...
September – American Football returns to Channel 4 after more than a decade when the channel starts broadcasting the Sunday Night Football match. 14 September – ESPN UK starts broadcasting live coverage of all of the National Football League's Monday night matches as well as the 90-minute pre-game programme, Monday Night Countdown. [13] 2011
3 April - Screen Sport shows the first coverage of Dutch league football on UK television. [125] 20 April – The game between Hearts and Aberdeen is the first league match in Scotland to be televised live, broadcast by Scottish Television. [126] [127] 16 August – The FA Charity Shield is shown live in its entirety for the first time.
For television viewers, BT Sport has become TNT Sports, with no new channel to tune in to. For those who watched regularly via the BT Sport app, discovery+ will be the new live streaming home of ...
ESPN Classic launched on 13 March 2006 on Sky channel 442, [1] the first channel in the UK under the ESPN branding. Initially it was only available on Sky Digital but the channel became available on Virgin Media and UPC Ireland in August 2009 when ESPN UK launched. It broadcast a range of archive sports coverage but with an emphasis on football.
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 matches per round for the next three seasons. [36] 2022. 11 April – BT Sport secures the rights to show live coverage of the Canadian Premier League. [37] 1 August – BT Sport ESPN is renamed BT ...
However, coverage of football television did not expand and for the next two decades the only matches screened were FA Cup finals and the occasional England vs. Scotland match. The first FA Cup tie other than the final to be shown was a fifth round match between Charlton Athletic and Blackburn Rovers on 8 February 1947, but matches were sparing and for technical reasons only games in London ...