Chronology of football on UK television
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This is a chronology of football on UK television.
England's top flight league[edit]
Division One[edit]
ITV showed a live match in September 1960, but plans for further live games were abandoned and there was no further live League football on British TV until 1983.[1]
| Seasons | Highlights | |
|---|---|---|
| 1955-1962 | BBC | |
| 1962-1964 | BBC | ITV (some regions) |
| Seasons | Live Coverage | Highlights | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964-1983 | none | BBC and ITV | |
| 1983-1988 | BBC | ITV | |
| 1988-1992 | ITV | ITV | |
Premier League[edit]
1992 saw the creation of a new English top flight football competition, the Premier League,[2] with Division One becoming the second tier of English football, and the top division of the Football League.
| Seasons | Live Coverage | Total | Highlights | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992-1996 | Sky Sports | 60 games | 60 games | BBC |
| 1996-2001 | 66 games | 66 games | ||
| Seasons | Live Coverage | Pay-Per-View Coverage | Total | Highlights | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-2004 | Sky Sports | 70 games | Premiership Plus | 40 games | 110 games | ITV |
| 2004-2007 | 88 games | PremPlus | 50 games | 138 games | BBC | |
After the European Union objected to what it saw as a monopoly on Premier League television rights, the 2007 contract was split into separate packages of 23 games in which at least one had to be sold to another broadcaster. Consequently, live Premier League matches are shown on a non Sky Sports channel for the first time.[3]
| Seasons | Live Coverage | Others | Total | Highlights | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-2009 | Sky Sports | 96 games | Setanta Sports | 42 games | 138 games | BBC |
| 2009-2010 | ESPN | |||||
| 2010-2013 | 115 games | 23 games | ||||
| 2013-2016 | 116 games | BT Sport | 38 games | 154 games | ||
| 2016-2019 | 126 games | 42 games | 168 games | |||
The 2019 contract sees, for the first time, a set of Premier League matches being sold to a streaming service when Amazon Prime wins the contract to show 20 matches per season.[4] For the delayed conclusion to the 2019-20 season, and during the whole of the 2020-21 season, all matches are shown live because they are played behind closed doors owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.
| Seasons | Live Coverage | Others | Live Streaming Coverage | Total | Highlights | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-2020 | Sky Sports | 128 games | Pick | 25 games | BT Sport | 64 games | BBC | 4 games | Amazon Prime Video | 24 games | 245 games | BBC |
| Seasons | Live Coverage | Others | Pay-Per-View Coverage | Live Streaming Coverage | Total | Highlights | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | Sky Sports | 153 games | BT Sport | 79 games | BBC | 8 games | Sky Sports Box Office | 9 games | BT Sport Box Office | 6 games | Amazon Prime Video | 28 games | 281 games | BBC |
| Seasons | Live Coverage | Others | Live Streaming Coverage | Total | Highlights | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-2022 | Sky Sports | 128 games | BT Sport | 52 games | Amazon Prime Video | 20 games | 200 games | BBC |
World Cup and European Championship[edit]
There was live coverage of World Cup football in 1954 and 1958 - however only selected matches were shown. The 1962 World Cup in Chile was covered in delayed form by the BBC with film having to be carried by air via the United States back to Britain. Matches were generally seen three days after they were played, although every match was covered by the BBC with commentary.
Since 1966, the BBC and ITV have shared the rights to the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship. A near equal split of group stage and knockout stage games takes place and the final is shown on both networks.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Imlach, Gary. My Father and Other Working-Class Football Heroes. pp. 152–153. Search this book on
- ↑ "The History of the Football League". Football League. Archived from the original on 11 April 2008. Retrieved 12 September 2010. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "giant killer puts end to Sky's Premier League stranglehold". TheGuardian.com. Retrieved May 31, 2021.
- ↑ Sweney, Mark (Jun 7, 2018). "Amazon breaks Premier League hold of Sky and BT with Prime streaming deal". Retrieved Sep 29, 2020 – via www.theguardian.com.
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