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The BBC shows darts for the first time when it covers that year's British Open. 1975. 9 August – Sportscene is broadcast for the first time, mainly to show highlights of Scottish football although the programme also covers other sports. 16 August – The first edition of Scoreboard is shown on BBC1 Scotland.
Grandstand was the flagship sports programme of the BBC which was broadcast on Saturday afternoons on BBC1 between 1958 and 2007, and from 1981 on Sunday afternoons as Sunday Grandstand on BBC2, although until 1998 the Sunday edition aired only during the summer.
Pages in category "1970s British sports television series". The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online. The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as Match of the Day, Test Match Special, Ski Sunday and Today at Wimbledon.
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Eamonn Andrews was the first host and the programme itself was "compiled for Independent Television" by ABC Weekend Television. From the summer of 1968 it was produced by London Weekend Television - under the ITV Sport banner, with the other ITV stations supplying footage of events in their regions. Thames Television took over LWT's responsibilitie...
The show included popular segments such as On the Ball (a preview of the day's football action), the ITV Seven (horse racing), and wrestling with commentator Kent Walton. It also showed sports not seen elsewhere, such as women's hockey, netball, lacrosse, water skiing and stock car racing or sports that were not popular with the British mainstream,...
After a 20-year run, the programme ended on 28 September 1985 because of a change in emphasis at ITV Sport - racing coverage had switched to Channel 4. Wrestling as a programme continued but it was transmitted on lunchtimes at 12.30 rather than teatimes, which proved terminal for the programme which had a primarily working class audience. Work trad...
World of Sport had a theme tune and opening credits which featured the ITV Sport logo and the programme name as trailing banners from white Piper Super Cub light aircraft. The long running theme "World of Sport March", used between 1968 and 1983, was composed by Don Harper, a re-recorded version of the tune was introduced in the early 1980s accompa...
On 11 May 1985, World of Sport switched its coverage to Valley Parade stadium as match commentator John Helm, who had been covering the game for Yorkshire Television, described the events of the Br...The comedian Eric Morecambe appeared as a guest on the Christmas Eve edition of World of Sportin 1977 causing mayhem by entertaining and trying to disrupt his friend Dickie Davies' presentation links.The show featured rows of typists sat behind the main presenter, mainly preparing items for the show. This was parodied by French and Saunders in the sketch Sports Reportand featured their recurrin...A spin-off programme Saint and Greavsie, featuring Ian St. John and Jimmy Greaves, featuring football news, action and live chat was introduced by ITV on Saturday lunchtimes from 1985 to replace the On The Ball segment of World of Sport, enjoying a successful run that ended in 1992 when Sky Sportsgained exclusive rights to broadcast English top-fli...
On 17 October 2016, ITV announced that they would be bringing back professional wrestling, arguably World of Sport's most popular segment. They announced they would be recording a pilot episode on 1 November 2016, being filmed at MediaCityUK in Salford, Greater Manchester. The show featured independent wrestlers such as El Ligero, Grado, and Sha Sa...
Feb 28, 2024 · Chelsea v Leeds: Fouls galore in 1970 FA Cup final at Old Trafford. By Phil Dawkes. BBC Sport. A version of this article was first published in April 2020. Eddie Gray collects the ball in...
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Jan 24, 2023 · The 1970 FA Cup Final Replay culminated the 89th FA Cup season. Originating after finalists Chelsea and Leeds United drew 2-2 on 11th April 1970, the replay occurred on 29th April in front of 62,078 at Old Trafford.
