Timeline of other British sports channels

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This is a timeline of sports channels in the UK other than

FreeSports
. The timeline also includes sports events which were shown on non-sports non-terrestrial channels. The timeline also includes sports coverage broadcast on streaming services.

1980s

  • 1981
    • Screensport is by founded Bob Kennedy. This is the first proposal for a sports channel to operate in the UK.[1][2]
  • 1982
    • No events.
  • 1983
    • No events.
  • 1984
    • February – Ahead of its launch, Screensport completes a programming deal with Trans World International, giving the channel access to events taking place around the world.[3][4]
    • 29 March – Screensport launches.[5] Initially all coverage is pre-recorded and the channel broadcasts for just a few hours each day.
    • 31 August – Screensport shows its first live event - greyhound racing.
  • 1985
    • 17 May – Screensport covers the Football League Trophy Southern Area Final between Brentford and Newport County. This is the first time a match in an English senior competition had been broadcast exclusively on a satellite channel.[6] The Northern equivalent and the Wembley final would also be shown.
    • 17 September – Screensport covers, and sponsors, the Football League Super Cup, a competition designed to compensate clubs banned from European competition following the Heysel Stadium disaster. This was the only English club competition shown on television in the UK in the first half of the season.[7]
  • 1987
    • July – Screensport signs a deal with Thames Television, who were the Football League's agent for international distribution, to transmit 34 recorded matches via cable and satellite.[9] Thames produced its programme, called the Big League Soccer.[10] This resulted in Screensport being the only place where viewers could get extended highlights of the league during the 1987/88 season.
  • 1988
    • 5 September – S4C launches a sports programme called Sgorio.[11] The programme is set up to provide highlights of European football, including highlights of games from La Liga and Serie A, although other sports are also included within the programme.
    • 7 December – ESPN increases its stake in Screensport from 3.5% to 25.5% after purchasing shares from WHSmith for £4.4 million.[12] By then, Screensport had increased its sports content, allowing the channel to broadcast for 18.5 hours each day. The schedule includes ice hockey, skiing, golf, tennis, and yachting.

1990s

  • 1990
  • 1991
    • 20 April – Following the merger between Sky TV and BSB, BSB's Sport Channel closes and is replaced the next day by Sky Sports.
    • 6–22 May –
      BSkyB
      as Eurosport's joint owners.
  • 1992
    • No events.
  • 1993
    • 1 March – Screensport closes following its merger with Eurosport in the hope that one would become financially profitable.[15]
  • 1995
    • January – Eurosport replaces Sky Sports as the broadcaster of tennis' Australian Open and has broadcast the event live and in full ever since.
    • June – TCI (owners of Telewest) and NYNEX do a deal with BSkyB which includes a clause that the cable operators do not launch any rival channels to those already operated by Sky. This causes the collapse of Sportswire, days before its launch as a full-time channel.
    • 7–28 October – L!VE TV broadcasts many of the matches from the 1995 Rugby League World Cup. It shows many of them exclusively as the main broadcaster, BBC Sport, only shows four matches live from the entire tournament although Wales' three matches are shown on S4C.
    • L!VE TV also shows coverage of that year's World Masters darts tournament - its predecessor Wire TV had shown the event for the previous two years. However, L!VE would only show the event once as from the following year, the event moved to Eurosport where it stayed until 2000.
    • The Racing Channel launches, thereby becoming the UK's first channel devoted to a single sport.
  • 1996
    • 13 October – Formula One coverage on Eurosport ends. It had shown full race weekend coverage of the event since the early days of the channel and had been the only place to see the practice and qualifying sessions as the BBC had only shown the actual race prior to the 1996 Formula One World Championship.

2000s

  • 2002
    • 1 March – F1 Digital+ launches. It offers enhanced multi-screen coverage of Formula One on a pay-per-view basis.
    • 1 May – At The Races launches.[21]
    • 13 August – Chelsea TV launches.
    • 5 December – NASN launches to show live and recorded coverage of North American sports.
    • 12 December – After just one season, F1 Digital+ closes.[22]
  • 2003
    • January –
      • Eurosport takes over as broadcaster of Serie A, opting to show a match at peak-time whereas Channel 4 had shown its live coverage in the afternoon.
      • The Racing Channel closes. It had been on air since 1995.[23]
    • Eurosport broadcasts snooker for the first time.[24] The channel goes on to provide extensive coverage of the sport both in the UK and across Europe.
  • 2008
    • 14 January – Arsenal TV launches.[43]
    • January – TWC Fight! Is relaunched as
      The Fight Network
      .
    • February – Setanta Sports begins broadcasting one live game a week from the British Basketball League.[44]
    • 18 May – Setanta Sports shows full live coverage of the first cricket Indian Premier League.[45]
    • 14–15 June – Coverage of Le Mans moves to Eurosport.[46]
    • August – Setanta Sports begins showing the England football team and the FA Cup following ITV becoming the primary rights holder of both in its new deal with the FA. Setanta shows 17 FA Cup games, including one semi-final exclusively and shared coverage with ITV of the final.[47] Consequently, the BBC has no rights to any form of coverage of the FA Cup for the very first time.
    • 1 December –
      The Fight Network (UK & Ireland)
      closes.

2010s

  • 2011
    • 12 January – ESPN signs a deal to show exclusive coverage of the World Rally Championship.[68] ESPN will screen 30-minute nightly bulletins at the end of every WRC day, with on-event coverage bookended by an hour-long preview and review show.
    • 13 April – ESPN shows the first of six matches from the newly-formed
      FA Women's Super League
      .
    • 6 July – ESPN announces a deal with the British Darts Organisation which sees it become exclusive broadcaster of the World Masters along with other BDO tournaments and a share of the coverage of the BDO World Darts Championship.[69][70][71]
    • 14 July – Boxing channel BoxNation launches.[72]
  • 2012
    • 7 January – ESPN breaks the BBC's monopoly on covering the BDO World Darts Championship. This begins a pattern which continues with BT Sport from 2014 whereby two broadcasters share the rights with ESPN (and from 2014 BT Sport) showing the weeknight evening coverage exclusively live with all other coverage shared between both broadcasters.[73]
    • April – ESPN America stops broadcasting a European version of SportsCentre, instead opting to broadcast an edited version of the 2am show produced in Los Angeles.
    • 12 June – The announcement of the rights to the Premier League for the next three seasons reveals that BT has won the rights to 38 matches each season. These rights are currently held by ESPN UK.[74] The news followed speculation that ESPN was reconsidering its position in the UK.[75]
    • 11–31 August – ESPN shows the first edition of cricket's Sri Lanka Premier League.
    • September – ESPN starts showing one game per round from the UEFA Europa League after it acquired secondary rights to the competition with ITV being the primary rights holder.[76]
    • 20–23 September – ESPN shows the 2012 Darts European Championship,[77] thereby becoming the first broadcaster in Britain to show both BDO and PDC tournaments at the same time.
  • 2016
    • 6 January – UKTV announces that Dave will show its first live sporting event – a boxing match between David Haye and Mark de Mori at the O2 Arena on 16 January 2016.[85] Later in the year Dave broadcasts the 2016 BDO World Trophy darts tournament and cricket's Caribbean Premier League.
    • 14 March –
      Racing UK begins broadcasting in high-definition.[86]
    • 28–30 May – UKTV channel Dave makes a one-off return to darts when it shows the 2016 BDO World Trophy.[87]
    • 27 June – Eurosport shows live and recorded coverage of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships for the first time, thereby becoming the first commercial pay-TV broadcaster to air live UK coverage from the All England Club. Its live coverage is restricted to the finals weekend. This is the first time since 1968 that the BBC has not been the exclusive broadcaster of Wimbledon in the UK.[88]
    • Eurosport makes some of its snooker coverage available on free-to-air television when it begins simulcasting coverage on free-to-air channel Quest.[89]
    • October – A free-to-air sports channel Front Runner launches.
    • 31 December – Extreme Sports Channel stops broadcasting in the UK after 14 years on air.
  • 2017
    • 1 March –
      Motors TV relaunches itself as Motorsport.tv. The change also sees the channel start to broadcast in high definition.[90]
    • Front Runner shows the 2017 British GT Championship.[91]
    • 26–29 May – The
      England Open the following month.[92]
    • May – Dave replaces Sky Sports as broadcaster of tennis' Tie Break Tens tournament.[93]
    • 28 August-10 September – Eurosport shows the US Open for the final time. It had held exclusive rights to the past two tournaments and prior to this it had obtained secondary rights to the event with Sky Sports being the main rights holder.
    • September – After less than two years on air, Bike closes.
  • 2018
    • 7 June – It is announced that Amazon Prime has been awarded the rights to livestream 20 Premier League matches a season for the next three seasons.[94]
    • 18 June – Amazon Prime shows its first live sport in the UK when it broadcasts live coverage of the Queen's Club tennis tournament.[95]
    • August – Eleven Sports UK and Ireland launches following deals with European football leagues, including Serie A[96] and La Liga.[97] The platform is a streaming service rather than a television channel.
    • 8 August – EFL on Quest is broadcast for the first time following the transfer of the highlights right to the English Football League to Quest.
    • 9–12 August – Eleven Sports broadcasts the 2018 PGA Championship, meaning that for the first time, a major golf event in the UK is only available on a streaming platform. However, the event returns to Sky Sports the following year.
    • 27 August – Amazon Prime broadcasts the US Open for the first time. This is the first time that a major sporting event has only been available via a streaming-only platform.[98]
    • 30 September – After more than 17 years on air, Motorsport.tv, previously known as Motors TV, closes its linear channel, switching to online-streaming only.[99]
    • 17 December – Racing UK rebrands itself as Racing TV.

2020s

  • 2020
    • 6 January – Amazon Prime Video expands its coverage of tennis when it takes over as the UK broadcaster of the WTA, showing 49 tournaments a year.[101]
    • March – Eurosport replaces BT Sport as rights holder to British Speedway.[102]
    • 16 June – Eurosport begins showing Norway's premier domestic football competition Eliteserien.[103]
    • 8 September – It is announced that all of September's Premier League fixtures will be shown on TV due to fans not being into stadiums due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes a weekly 3pm Saturday afternoon match, shown on TV in the UK for the first time, one of which is shown on Amazon Prime.[104]
    • 14 November – Amazon Prime Video broadcasts rugby union for the first time when it begins showing the Autumn Nations Cup.[105] Ireland's matches are shown on Channel 4 and Wales' games are broadcast on S4C.[106]
  • 2021
    • 1 February – Coverage of UK greyhound racing moves to a new channel called Sporty Stuff HD, which broadcasts on satellite. The sport had previously been shown on Live 360 - an offshoot of Nigerian news channel Arise News - since the closure of Front Runner TV. Sporty Stuff also shows lesser-known motorsport events.[107]
    • 13 May – The Premier League announces that, for the first time, the next three-year broadcasting contact has been awarded without a bidding process. Consequently, Amazon Prime is paying the same amount for the same packages as it did for the 2019-2022 contact.[108]
    • July – Fights promoted by Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Sport move from Sky Sports to streaming service DAZN.[109][110] The first live event is shown on 31 July.
    • 30 October – Amazon Prime Video begins showing almost all of the autumn international matches played by the six Nations countries. The only exception is Ireland's matches which are seen on Channel 4 although Ireland's games will move to Amazon in 2022.[111]
  • 2022
    • 2–10 April – Eurosport becomes the exclusive broadcaster of the World Darts Federation's World Championships.[112]
    • May – EFL on Quest will be broadcast for the final time as highlights of the English Football League will transfer from Quest to ITV.[113]
    • June – For the first time, the French Open tennis tournament will be shown exclusively on pay television following Eurosport obtaining exclusive coverage of the event. It had previously been shown on ITV and before then by the BBC.[114]
    • 11 September – Amazon Prime ends its coverage of the US Open (tennis) as part of its pullback from covering the sport. The event returns to Sky Sports in 2023.[115]
    • 24-26 September – Eurosport becomes the exclusive broadcast of tennis' Laver Cup, and will show the event until 2030.[116]
    • October – The National Hockey League's UK TV rights move to Scandinavian streaming service Viaplay as part of its UK launch.[117]
  • 2024
    • No events as yet.
  • 2025
    • May – Amazon ends its six seasons of broadcasting Premier League football as the rights it held move to Sky Sports after the Premier League opted not to offer the rights that Amazon held as a package this time round.[122]

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