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1982. 7 November – Coverage of American sport gets its first regular coverage on UK television when Channel 4 starts broadcasting American football on a weekly basis. [2] 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. 1984.
3 September – Sky Sports NFL launches. It is an in-season rebrand of Sky Sports Action and provides round-the clock coverage of the NFL. As well as live and recorded coverage of games, output includes simulcasts of magazine shows from NFL Network such as Good Morning Football and NFL Total Access. The channel broadcasts until early February 2021.
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.
On 21 February 2023, it was announced that BT Sport would rebrand as TNT Sports on 18 July 2023, ahead of the 2023–24 football season; the branding is derived from WBD's U.S. general entertainment channel TNT (which has historically carried sports coverage, such as the NBA; the brand had also previously operated in the UK), [40] and has also been used by WarnerMedia sports networks in Latin ...
Following the end of Ford's association with Sky Sports' coverage of the Premier League, the company's name was dropped from the programme's title in 2016 alongside three of Sky Sports' live Premier League programming titles named under the company's name (e.g. "Ford Super Sunday, "Ford Football Special and "Ford Saturday Night Football Live"), with the show simply being known as Monday Night ...
This is a list of media commentators and writers in the United Kingdom on the sport of Association football. A number of football players have had a second career as writers or commentators. However, many commentators never played the game at a professional level such as Dale Rowlinson and Gaz Mallachan, yet they have gone on to become famous names associated with the game.
10 September - After two pilot programmes, BBC TV launches Sports Special on Saturday nights. This is the first weekly programme to show highlights of Football League and FA Cup matches. The first edition includes a Scottish League match between Rangers and Stirling Albion. 22 September - Independent Television (ITV) launches in the London area.
This includes a weekly 3pm Saturday afternoon match, shown on TV in the UK for the first time with BT showing three of the additional fixtures, including one on Saturday at 3pm. [30] 9 October – The Premier League announces that October's games not scheduled for TV broadcast will be shown on a pay-per-view basis on either Sky Sports Box Office or BT Sport Box Office .