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He also does significant football coverage, presenting Match of the Day 2 on BBC One and Sky Sports' coverage of the EFL Cup. He also hosts Sports Report on BBC 5 Live, one of the longest-running programmes on British radio, and the world's longest-running sports radio programme, plus The Monday Night Club.
From the 2013–14 to the 2015–16 seasons, Sky have the rights to broadcast 116 matches each season, which are broadcast on Sundays, Saturday evenings and Monday nights. BT Sport broadcast 38 matches each season, the majority of which are on Saturday lunchtime, midweek and bank holidays. From 2016 Sky will show 126 live matches.
Mark Charles Albert Pougatch (born 27 January 1968) is an English radio and television broadcaster, journalist, and author who is currently the Chief Sports Presenter for ITV Sport, fronting their major football and rugby coverage.
ITV Sport has broadcast many boxing matches over the years under the Big Fight Live banner and the sport was a regular fixture on ITV screens until the mid-1990s when ITV lost its two premier contracts – in mid-1994 Barry Hearn took Chris Eubank and his stable of fighters to Sky Sports and at the start of 1995, Sky Sports won the rights to show Sports Network fights.
Spurs would also feature in the BBC's first live league match at Manchester United on a Friday night a few weeks later. By the late 1980s the value of live TV coverage had rocketed; while a two-year contract for rights in 1983 had cost just £5.2m, the four-year contract exclusively landed by ITV in 1988 cost £44m, a fourfold increase per year.
Football, cricket, rugby union, rugby league, snooker, motorsport and several other sports had message boards embedded into 606. On 24 January 2011, it was announced the 606 forum would close at the end of the 2010–11 football season, due to cuts in the BBC's online budget of 25% . [4] The forum finally closed on 31 May 2011. [5]
8 April – After a three-year hiatus, the World League of American Football returns with live coverage being aired on Sky Sports. Highlights of Scottish Claymores matches are shown on STV. 1996. No events. 1997. 31 March – On its first night on air, Channel 5 launches its overnight weekday live and recorded coverage of American sports. 1998
Alison Mitchell is an English-Australian cricket commentator and sports broadcaster, working for the BBC, Australia's Channel 7 and the Australian Open among others.She was the first woman to become a regular commentator on the BBC's Test Match Special, and has been commentating on men's and women's international cricket around the world since 2007.