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BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online. The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as Match of the Day, Test Match Special, Ski Sunday and Today at Wimbledon.
Julian Wilson (commentator) Julian David Bonhote Wilson (21 June 1940 – 20 April 2014) was BBC Television 's horse racing correspondent from 1966 until his retirement in 1997. He was succeeded by Clare Balding. [1] Between 1969 and 1992, he was one of the commentators for the Grand National and for a time he had editorial control over the BBC ...
Adrian Chiles. Matt Chilton. Reshmin Chowdhury. Mark Church. Steve Claridge. Alan Clarke (sports commentator) David Coleman. Mike Costello. Andrew Cotter.
Peter O'Sullevan. Sir Peter O'Sullevan CBE (3 March 1918 – 29 July 2015) was an Irish-British horse racing commentator for the BBC, and a correspondent for the Press Association, the Daily Express, and Today. He was the BBC's leading horse racing commentator from 1947 to 1997, during which time he described some of the greatest moments in the ...
Racing TV (formerly Racing UK) is a British television channel with 34 racecourses as shareholders and fixtures from 61 racecourses broadcast live on its output. Racing TV is one of the two major UK horse racing television channels, the other being Sky Sports Racing. The station is dedicated to horse racing broadcasting over 70% of all live ...
1930s. 1936. 2 November – The BBC opens the world's first regular high-definition television service, from Alexandra Palace. 1937. 21 June – The BBC broadcasts television coverage of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships for the first time. 1938. 2 April – The BBC covers The Boat Race for the first time. 30 April – The BBC broadcasts ...
ITV (until 1985) Channel 4 (until 2012) Known for. Sports presenting. Children. Jim, Hugo Thompson [1] Relatives. Bill McLaren (ex-father in law) Derek Thompson (born 31 July 1950) is a British presenter and commentator of horse racing on BBC Radio 5 Live and At the Races in Britain .
There are two main forms of horse racing in Great Britain. 1⁄2 miles, where horses usually jump either hurdles or fences (races known as steeplechases ). There is also a category of National Hunt races known as National Hunt flat races, which are run under National Hunt rules, but where no obstacles are jumped.