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June – BT Sport shows the NBA for the final time ahead of the rights transferring to Sky Sports. October – The NBA returns to Sky Sports after around a decade with ESPN and BT Sport. 2019. No events. 2020s. 2020. 3 December – The British Basketball League returns to Sky Sports. The broadcaster shows 30 games per season.
December – Sky Sports Darts appears for the first time to broadcast 24/7 coverage of the PDC World Darts Championship. 2014. 4–9 February – Eurosport shows the first edition of the BDO World Trophy. It also shows the 2015 event. 7–9 March – ITV takes over as broadcaster of the UK Open.
22 April to 5 May – The BBC shows daily live coverage of the World Snooker Championship for the first time. [25] 22–29 November – The BBC shows daily coverage of the second week of the UK Championship for the first time. 1981. 29 January to 1 February – The BBC adds an extra day of coverage of the Masters with all quarter-finals being ...
Programming was available in standard-definition and high-definition formats. ESPN Player, previously branded ESPN360, is ESPN’s digital streaming platform in the UK and Europe for live and on-demand sports. The service is available across Europe, Middle East & Africa and, predominantly, broadcasts U.S sports content. [3]
The afternoon-long football scores and results service replaces Sports Saturday. 1 October – Sky Digital launches and this is marked by the launch of the UK's first rolling sports news channel Sky Sports News. 15 November – Rival digital television service OnDigital launches.
1989. 5 February – Satellite television service Sky Television launches. The new channels – Sky News, Sky Movies and Eurosport – are carried on cable. 1990. 25 March – British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) launches its five-channel service and for the first five weeks, the channels are only available on cable.
The sport averages $296 million under the new agreement, a television and a baseball official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of a confidentiality agreement in the deal. ESPN paid baseball $273.5 million in 2006 , increasing to $293.5 million in each of the following four years, $308.5 million in 2011 and $306 million in each of the final two seasons.
1982. 7 November – Coverage of American sport gets its first regular coverage on UK television when Channel 4 starts broadcasting American football on a weekly basis. [2] 1983. 30 January – Live American Football is seen in the UK for the first time when Channel 4 broadcasts live coverage of Super Bowl XVII. 1984.