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Broadcasting contracts for rugby league (television) 10 live matches per season on BBC TWO until 2026, including two play off matches. 5 matches live on BBC iPlayer. Highlights of Grand Final. 20 live streamed matches from Challenge Cup, League 1, Women's Super League and Wheelchair Rugby League via The Sportsman.
Channel 4 also covers the 1984 events. 7–14 August – Channel 4, in conjunction with ITV, broadcasts live coverage of the first World Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland. 1984. 22 March – Horse racing coverage is broadcast on Channel 4 for the first time, resulting in the launch of Channel 4 Racing.
The BBC had shared live coverage of the event with Sky Sports. 1 July – Channel 4 starts broadcasting cricket following the channel sensationally obtaining the rights from the BBC the previous year. Sky Sports broadcasts a home Test Match live for the first time as part of a joint deal with Channel 4. This arrangement continues until 2005.
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. [2] 1984. 29 March – Screensport launches [3] and coverage of American Football is a significant part of its output throughout its time on air. 1985.
This is the first time that Channel 4 has broadcast this event. 11 April – BT Sport secures the rights to show live coverage of the Canadian Premier League. 1 June – Premier Sports begins broadcasting Scotland, Wales Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland UEFA Nations League matches until 2024. The deal also includes live rights to all ...
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation. It is publicly owned but, unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is funded entirely by its commercial activities, including advertising. [1]
The Ofcom Code on Sports and Other Listed & Designated Events is a series of regulations issued originally by the Independent Television Commission (ITC) then by Ofcom when the latter assumed most of the ITC's responsibilities in 2003, which is designed to protect the availability of coverage of major sporting occasions on free-to-air ...
4 September – Channel 5 acquires the UK broadcasting rights to Formula E from the 2016–17 season following Formula E's termination of its contract with ITV. It shows all races from round three and then shows all of the following season. 2017. 1 March – Motors TV relaunches itself as Motorsport.tv. The change also sees the channel start to ...