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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.
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.
27 April – Sunday Cricket begins broadcasting a match each week from the new Sunday League. [8] 1972. A new one-day competition, the Benson & Hedges Cup, begins and the BBC provides live coverage of a match from each round. 1975. 7–21 June – The BBC shows extensive live coverage of the first Cricket World Cup.
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 ...
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.
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.
Sky Sports increases its coverage of motorsport when it starts to broadcast FIA Formula 2 Championship (previously known as GP2) and FIA Formula 3 Championship on Sky Sports F1. 2014. January – BT Sport acquires the rights to broadcast the World Rally Championship for the 2014 season. BT Sport begins showing MotoGP. Coverage is more extensive ...
June – The National Hockey League is shown on Premier Sports for the final time as the UK TV rights move to Scandinavian streaming service Viaplay as part of its UK launch. [43] 30 June – FreeSports is removed from the Freeview platform. [44] 3 August – Premier Sports begins broadcasting on Virgin Media Ireland.