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In 2010, Hipgrave became a presenter on Al Jazeera on their English-language sports channel (Al Jazeera Sports +3) for their Champions League shows alongside Gary Lineker. She was the main anchor on Al Jazeera's coverage of the World Athletics Championships alongside Colin Jackson and Denise Lewis , the US Open Tennis Final, WTA Championships and the Asian Games .
He commentated on a handful of minor Premier League games for Sky Sports in the 1992–93 season, before his Radio 5 Live and Match of the Day career. Between 1998 and 2004, Pearce commentated on the Robot Wars TV series, on BBC Two and Channel 5, a role he reprised for the rebooted 2016 series. Channel 5, BBC and BT Sport
Setanta Sports Media is a sports television company based in Dublin, Ireland and in Tbilisi, Georgia, broadcasting throughout select Eurasian countries, and the Philippines. The company was formed in 1990 to facilitate the broadcasting of Irish sporting events to international audiences. The company previously operated channels in Ireland, the ...
1995. January – ITV loses rights to Frank Warren's Sports Network fights to Sky Sports. [2] October – ITV resumes its coverage of boxing, albeit for lower profile fights. 1996. 16 March – The fight between Frank Bruno and Mike Tyson is the UK's first television pay-per-view event. 1997.
In September 2015, BT Sport Europe was added to the pack. BT Sport Europe was introduced to broadcast the BT Sport's live UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League matches. The deal ran until 2019, when Sky TV took over BT's distribution rights in Ireland, bundling BT's channels with that of Premier Sports to produce the Sky Sports Extra ...
Eir Sport (stylised as eir Sport; formerly Setanta Sports) was a group of Irish television sports channels operated by Eircom Sport Limited, a subsidiary of Eir. In December 2015, Eir purchased original Setanta Sports operations in the Republic of Ireland, [2] which the company rebranded as Eir Sport on 5 July 2016.
In May 2018, Eleven Sports secured a three-year deal to broadcast La Liga football matches in the UK and Ireland. Two months later, they secured UK three-year deals to screen Serie A matches, the Eredivisie and the Chinese Super League and Sweden's Allsvenskan. Eleven Sports launched in the UK & Ireland with rights to the 2018 U.S. PGA.
BT Sport (2013–present) In 2013, he joined BT Sport to commentate on their new coverage of the Premier League. In 2014 he co-hosted the programme Fletch and Sav, alongside ex-footballer Robbie Savage, which was launched to rival Soccer AM. The show ended in 2016 when BT Sport acquired the rights to 5:30 pm games.