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As part of this new line-up, BT Sport decided to launch a football scores service. The programme was launched on 13 August 2016. Prior to the 2016–17 season, BT Sport had showed live rugby union coverage in this slot which was then broadcast on BT Sport 2. The programme began on BT Sport 1 after the final whistle of the live lunchtime game ...
The demand for live televised football grew in the wake of England’s World Cup success, though the authorities remained reluctant. In April 1967, the Football League Management Committee rejected a £1m offer from BBC Television to show live League football on Thursday nights. They did, however, experiment with pay-per-view broadcasting.
TNT Sports is a group of pay television sports channels in the UK and Ireland, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and BT Group. It was formerly known as BT Sport and launched in 2013, covering various sports events such as Premier League, UEFA Champions League, UFC and MotoGP.
Find out which TV channels and platforms have the rights to broadcast various sports events in the UK, such as football, rugby, cricket and more. See the details of the contracts, the free-to-air rules and the online options for different sports and competitions.
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.
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 ...
18 June – Amazon Prime shows its first live sport in the UK when it broadcasts live coverage of the Queen's Club tennis tournament. [103] August – Eleven Sports UK and Ireland launches following deals with European football leagues, including Serie A [104] and La Liga. [105] The platform is a streaming service rather than a television channel.
Viaplay Xtra was a British sports television channel owned by Viaplay Group that launched in 2017 and closed in 2024. It broadcast various sports, including football, ice hockey, tennis, rugby and basketball, and was a sister channel of Viaplay Sports.