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1930s. 1936. 2 November – The BBC opens the world's first regular high-definition television service, from Alexandra Palace. 1937. 21 June – The BBC broadcasts television coverage of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships for the first time. 1938. 2 April – The BBC covers The Boat Race for the first time.
No events. 1983. 6 January – The Channel 9 broadcast of the fifth cricket Test from Sydney is shown on the BBC. This is the first time cricket from abroad is shown live in England. [ 13] 9–25 June – The BBC shows extensive live coverage of the 1983 Cricket World Cup. [ 14][ 15] 1984. No events. 1985.
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 ...
March – The first in-vision Ceefax transmissions are broadcast. 1981. 29 July – The Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer is produced by BBC Television & Radio with an audience of 750 million viewers and listeners in over 60 countries. 4 September – The final edition of Midday News is broadcast.
Irvine covered golf for the BBC as a reporter and presenter for 25 years, finishing with the Masters in April 2017. [14] Irvine also presented the 2019 Netball World Cup from Liverpool for the BBC. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to sport and charity. [15]
BBC News provides television journalism to BBC network bulletins (on BBC One and BBC Two) and programmes as well as the BBC News Channel available around the world and in the United Kingdom. BBC News runs BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World Service as part of its rolling news coverage, journalists and presenters also contribute to podcasts produced ...
15 September – Final edition of Breakfast News on BBC One and BBC News 24, the last conventional news broadcast in the morning. 2 October – The first edition of BBC Breakfast is broadcast, the new morning show on BBC One and News 24 from 6:00–9:30. (9:00 on BBC News 24). 13 October – Final edition of the BBC Nine O'Clock News on BBC One.
30 December and 6 January 1996 – ITV broadcasts live coverage of semi-finals and final of the inaugural Heineken Cup. [5] 1996. November – Sky Sports begins showing live coverage of England national rugby union team ’s autumn internationals, replacing the BBC which held the right for many decades. 1997.