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News of BT's first foray into sports broadcasting first came about on 12 June 2012, when it was announced that it had won the rights to 38 live Premier League matches for three seasons from the 2013–14 season, beating ESPN UK, which had held the shared rights with Sky Sports the previous season. BT announced at the same time that it would be launching its own channel for its new football ...
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.
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.
In the United Kingdom, sporting events are broadcast on several national television networks, as well as radio. Many of the sporting events are listed online or in different kind of apps. These apps are mainly designed by sport fans who want to have an easy way to find when a certain game or match is played, as well as when a race starts or which channel is broadcasting the olympic games etc.
BT Sport will disappear from television screens in the United Kingdom in July as the channel rebrands to TNT Sports, with Premier League football next season to be shown on the new channel.
BT Sport 2012 12 June – The announcement of the rights to the Premier League for the next three seasons reveals that BT has won the rights to 38 matches each season. [ 1] The news followed speculation that ESPN was reconsidering its position in the UK. [ 2] September – BT wins the rights to Premiership Rugby and its associated 7s Series, and in November it picks up the rights to American ...
English Football League. All televised EFL games are broadcast on Sky Sports, with two games (usually Championship) per weekend broadcast at 20:00 on a Friday and 12:30 on a Saturday. Other games may be additionally scheduled at different times, such as 17:30 on Saturday, 12:00 on Sunday or, very occasionally, 20:00 on a Monday.
This is a list of television broadcasters which provide coverage of the Premier League, English football's top-level competition, which is the most watched league in the world. The main broadcasters in the United Kingdom and Ireland, in current contract (2023-25), are Sky Sports (128 of the 200 televised games in the UK and Ireland), TNT Sports (52), and Amazon Prime Video (20) (UK version ...