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Channel 4 Racing. ITV Racing is a programme produced by ITV Sport for races shown on ITV1 or ITV4 in the United Kingdom. The programme is referred to as Racing on STV in Northern and Central Scotland on STV. In its previous incarnation, the show was an essential part of World of Sport. [1]
Jason Charles Weaver (born 9 February 1972) is a former, classic-winning, British flat racing jockey who had his major successes in the mid-1990s. In total, Weaver rode more than 1,000 winners in a career which spanned fourteen years. [1] Since retiring he has worked as a presenter and pundit, and currently works on ITV Racing and Sky Sports ...
Channel 5 begins showing live coverage of MotoGP. It shows the event for the next three seasons. 2001. March – Motorsports channel Motors TV launches in the UK. 30 September – Murray Walker commentates on his final televised Formula One race at the 2001 United States Grand Prix.
Mick Fitzgerald is now a popular face presenting [citation needed] and analysing both flat and National hunt races. Initially working for At The Races, in 2013 he joined the Channel 4 Racing team to give an insight into the racecraft and training of jockeys. Fitzgerald transferred to ITV Racing in 2017. Despite being unable to ride since his ...
In 2012, Persad returned to Channel 4 racing, and he was the interviewer to whom AP McCoy announced his retirement as a jockey following his tenth year of 200 winners. In 2016, it was announced ITV would be taking over coverage of terrestrial horse racing from Channel 4, and Persad was retained for the new line up.
Channel 4 suspended PRS following revelations of a "glitch" preventing callers from being entered into a competition on the racing programme The Morning Line. [19] The first radio stations were named in the controversy on 12 March, after Virgin Radio admitted to inviting viewers to call a pre-recorded programme, and LBC being investigated for allegedly not revealing the price of phone calls to ...
The British Superbike Championship ( BSB ), known for sponsorship reasons as the Bennetts British Superbike Championship, is a road racing championship for superbike class machines in the United Kingdom, and is acknowledged to be the premier domestic superbike racing series in the world. [1] [2]
28 September 1985. ( 1985-09-28) World of Sport is a British television sport programme which ran on ITV between 2 January 1965 and 28 September 1985 in competition with the BBC 's Grandstand. Like Grandstand, the programme ran throughout Saturday afternoon. From the programme's launch until the lifting of restrictions on broadcasting hours in ...