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1965. 17 October – Football highlights start to be shown on ITV in the London area, ATV launches Star Soccer, with coverage of the match between West Ham United and Sheffield Wednesday. 7 November - ABC begins regional coverage in the North and Midlands, with their programme World of Soccer. 1966.
1955-1959. 1955. 22 September – ITV is launched and sport - boxing - is part of the launch night's programmes. 12 October - ITV shows live football for the first time. They cover the second half of a floodlit friendly between Tottenham Hotspur and Vasas Budapest from White Hart Lane, although the foggy weather may have affected the broadcast.
An early attempt at live league football was made in 1960–61, when ITV agreed a deal worth £150,000 with the Football League to screen 26 matches; the very first live league match was on Saturday 10 September 1960 between Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers at Bloomfield Road.
2 October – ITV shows a live top flight football match for the first time since 1960. This marks the start of English football being shown on a national basis rather than on a regional basis, resulting in The Big Match becoming a fully national programme. 1984
The history of ITV, the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies "Independent Television" commercial network, goes back to 1955.. Independent Television began as a network of independently-owned regional companies that were both broadcasters and programme makers, beginning with four companies operating six stations in three large regions in 1955–1956, and gradually expanding to 17 stations in ...
The Big Match was a British football television programme, screened on ITV between 1968 and 1992. [1] The Big Match originally launched on London Weekend Television (LWT) – the ITV regional station that served London and the Home Counties at weekends – screening highlights of Football League matches. [2] [3] Other ITV regions had their own ...
The ability for home viewers to record programming was extremely limited before videotape; although a home viewer could record the video of a broadcast onto 8 mm film throughout television history or record the audio of a broadcast onto audiotape beginning in the 1950s, one could generally not capture both on the same medium until super-8 debuted in the 1960s. Home movies of this kind are ...
22 October – The Strange World of Gurney Slade (1960) 1 November – The Old Pull 'n Push (1960–1961) 14 November – The Dickie Henderson Show (1960–1968) 23 November – The Citadel (1960–1961) 9 December – Coronation Street (1960–present) 10 December – The Cheaters (1960–1962) 11 December – Pathfinders to Mars (1960–1961)