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1 day ago · Roger Hunt claimed a piece of cultural history 60 years ago today, with the Liverpool striker scoring the first goal ever to be shown on a football programme that was about to become a national institution. On August 22, 1964, legendary commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme was at Anfield to introduce the first episode of a new weekly television show.
The first edition of Match of the Day was scheduled for broadcast on BBC Two at 18.30, 22nd August 1964. At the last moment, due to pressure from the Football League Management Committee, the ...
1 day ago · Match of the Day eventually began to broadcast highlights from a variety of games across the First Division and remains that way to this day, with Gary Lineker the host in its 60th year.
The season 1983–84 also saw the first Match of the Day Live broadcasts of First Division matches, beginning with Manchester United vs Tottenham Hotspur on 16 December – a Friday evening fixture. This came some two months after the start of ITV's Big Match Live.
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The first regular football programme on television, Match of the Day, began on 22 August 1964, at the start of the 1964-65 season. The identity of the match – Liverpool v Arsenal - was kept...
Aug 20, 2014 · The first live league game on the BBC was shown on 16 December, 1983, between Manchester United and Spurs. The BBC originally broadcast its live matches on a Friday before switching to...
Feb 14, 2003 · BBC Sport Online brings you a potted history of Match of the Day, 36 years after it was first broadcast. 1964 Match of the Day made its debut in August 1964, broadcasting highlights of...
