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Sports programming. FA Cup: BBC One/TV 1937 – 1996, 2002 – 2008 & 2014 – present (shared with BT Sport) Wimbledon Championships: BBC TV/BBC One 1937 – present, BBC Two 1964 – present; The Boat Race: BBC TV/One 1938 – 2004 & 2010 – present (ITV covered the Boat Race from 2005 – 2009) Live England Test Cricket: BBC TV 1938 – 1998
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. The BBC’s coverage of the World Rally Championship ends.
June – BT Sport broadcasts men's tennis for the first time when it shows live coverage of the AEGON Championships tennis tournament from Queen's Club. 2015 June – The BBC's Wimbledon Tennis Championships highlights programme changes format and name, to Wimbledon 2day , with a new lighthearted magazine format, but after only one year, the format was abandoned for 2016.
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.
Humphrey left at the end of 2012 to join BT Sport and was replaced by Suzi Perry. Allan McNish joined as analyst and Clarkson joined full time. BBC aired all three practice session for their live races on BBC Two or BBC Three. Anderson left at the end of 2013. The BBC kept their remaining staff for 2014 and 2015. Grand Prix axed
21 May – Serena Martin wins the 1997 series of Junior MasterChef on BBC1. 23 May – The long-running Channel 4 game show Countdown celebrates its 2000th edition with a special retrospective programme. [48] 24–26 May – Channel 4 dedicates the Spring Bank Holiday weekend to sitcoms.
16 September – Lorne Spicer, presenter ( Cash in the Attic) 24 September – Sheryl Gascoigne, television personality. 14 October – Steve Coogan, British comedian and actor. 15 October – Stephen Tompkinson, British actor. 31 October – Rob Rackstraw, British voice actor. 4 November – Shaun Williamson, British actor.
28 July–12 August – The BBC airs the 1984 Summer Olympic Games. Due to the Games taking place in Los Angeles, BBC1 stays on the air into the night to provide live coverage of the major events. 30 July. BBC1's teatime news programme reverts to its original name of Evening News and to its original broadcast time of 5:40pm.