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27 April – Sunday Cricket begins broadcasting a match each week from the new Sunday League. [8] 1972. A new one-day competition, the Benson & Hedges Cup, begins and the BBC provides live coverage of a match from each round. 1975. 7–21 June – The BBC shows extensive live coverage of the first Cricket World Cup.
Sky Sports increases its coverage of motorsport when it starts to broadcast FIA Formula 2 Championship (previously known as GP2) and FIA Formula 3 Championship on Sky Sports F1. 2014. January – BT Sport acquires the rights to broadcast the World Rally Championship for the 2014 season. BT Sport begins showing MotoGP. Coverage is more extensive ...
The NFL has the largest television contracts, and earns over $6 billion annually from its contracts with Fox, CBS, NBC, ESPN and DirecTV for the 2014 through 2022 seasons. [6] MLB earns $1.5 billion annually from its contracts signed in 2012 with ESPN, Fox, and Turner Sports ( TBS) for the 2014 through 2021 seasons. [7]
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 ...
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In 1970, after the NFL and AFL completed their merger, NBC signed a contract with the league to broadcast games from the American Football Conference (AFC). Curt Gowdy, who had covered the first five seasons of the American Football League with broadcast partner Paul Christman on ABC, moved over to NBC in the fall of 1965.
June – BT Sport broadcasts men's tennis for the first time when it shows live coverage of the AEGON Championships tennis tournament from Queen's Club. 2015 June – The BBC's Wimbledon Tennis Championships highlights programme changes format and name, to Wimbledon 2day , with a new lighthearted magazine format, but after only one year, the format was abandoned for 2016.
1–8 August – Sky Sports broadcasts the first World Matchplay (darts). Sky continues to show this event to this day. 19 August – Sky Sports 2 launches, initially as a weekend-only service. 20 August – The first edition of Saturday morning football-based comedy/talk show Soccer AM is broadcast. 1995.