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27 July-12 August – The 2012 Summer Olympics take place, and with the exception of news programming, BBC One is devoted entirely to live coverage of the Games. Also, live coverage of every sport is shown via its interactive and online service meaning that viewers are able to watch every sport live and in full for the very first time.
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.
From the 1990s onwards the programme's scope of sporting coverage began to diminish as the BBC began to lose major broadcasting sports rights including live Formula One which went to ITV, the FA Cup, England's home cricket test matches, Sunday League cricket, the NatWest Trophy and the Ryder Cup particularly to the then emerging Sky Sports and even lost some rights to Channel 4.
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.
OneRepublic (2019/20-2022/23) Final Score is a BBC Television football news and results programme produced by BBC Sport. The programme is broadcast on late Saturday afternoons in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, usually on BBC One. BBC Northern Ireland opts away during the last ten minutes to cover local results in Final Score from Northern ...
Andrew Mark Chapman (nicknamed Chappers) (born 11 October 1973) is a British television and radio sports presenter. He is BBC Sports ' chief rugby league presenter, fronting BBC's coverage of the Rugby League World Cup and RFL Challenge Cup matches. [ 1] He also does significant football coverage, presenting Match of the Day 2 on BBC One and ...
Gary Lineker. Gary Winston Lineker OBE ( / ˈlɪnəkər / LIN-ə-kər; born 30 November 1960) is an English sports broadcaster and former professional footballer. Lineker is the only player to have been the top goalscorer in England with three clubs: Leicester City, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur. He also played for Barcelona in Spain, and won ...
Fair-minded, even-tempered, he has become one of the finest specialists the BBC has ever had. In his understated way he speaks for the game: not the people who play it." In 2016 Agnew was a member of the BBC commentary team at the 2016 Summer Olympics, covering equestrian events. He earns £185,000 – £189,999 as BBC cricket correspondent.