With the FA Cup deal it's back to how it was in previous years with BBC/ITV and TNT/ESPN/Sky Sports sharing the rights.

 

ITV don't have the rights from 2025/26 - the season the majority of it goes to TNT Sports. The BBC are sub-licensing their games from TNT.

 

It might be similar to how it used to be in terms of both TNT and the BBC having the rights but it leaves the BBC just 14 games and ITV none.

 

It's a crap move and it undermines the FA Cup having so much on a paywalled channel.

The Tour de France will be shown free to air in the UK for the final time next year after Warner Bros Discovery and Eurosport secured exclusive rights to broadcast the world’s most watched annual sporting event.

 

The Tour was first shown by Channel 4 in the 1980s before moving to ITV in 2001. The broadcaster has delivered comprehensive coverage in recent years helmed by presenter Gary Imlach alongside popular commentators Ned Boulting and David Millar, as the sport’s profile grew with the success of Team Sky, now known as Ineos Grenadiers.

 

 

TNT Sports will broadcast MotoGP’s Sprint races, two Moto2 races, and a weekly highlights show free-to-air on Quest, as part of a rights renewal with the competition.

 

The “multi-year” deal sees TNT Sports and discovery+ continue to be the home of MotoGP, Moto2, and Moto3 in the UK and Ireland. It also adds the FIM Women’s Circuit Racing World Championship, the FIM MotoE World Championship and competitions from the Road to MotoGP talent promotion intiative.

 

Quest’s Sprint, Moto2 and weekly highlights are the first time that it is showing MotoGP, and one of those two races will be the British GP. It has previously been used as a free-to-air window for other sports by TNT Sports, including the Formula E London E-Prix earlier this year.

BBC Sport has agreed a deal to share live coverage of the men's Fifa World Cup in 2026 and 2030 with ITV and will broadcast the tournament across TV, audio and digital platforms.

 

The 2026 World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico will be the biggest yet, with 48 teams playing 104 matches over 39 days - beginning in Mexico City on 11 June and ending in East Rutherford, New Jersey on 19 July.

 

The two broadcasters will share the rights equally, splitting matches between them, including a shared final, ensuring continued free-to-air coverage of the Fifa World Cup.

 

Alongside live TV coverage and highlights across the BBC TV channels and iPlayer, live audio commentary will be broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live and 5 Sports Extra. Fans will be able to listen to 5 Live coverage on BBC Sounds and follow all the action on the BBC Sport website and app.

 

ITV will deliver free-to-air coverage of live fixtures across ITV1, ITV4 and ITVX, plus highlights and exclusive content on ITV Sport social accounts.

Eurosport is to disappear from British screens, with the longtime home of events such as the Tour de France rebranding after 35 years.

 

On 28 February, Eurosport 1 and 2 will be merged into TNT Sports, as the group owned by Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD) reorganises its offering in the UK. It’s a move executives say will both boost and simplify choices for sports fans, but leaves unanswered questions as to what free-to-air offerings will still be available to viewers.

 

 

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Channel 5 will show four home England T20s per year for the next four years under a new deal with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), keeping the matches on free-to-air television.

The two men's and two women's matches, previously shown on the BBC, will also be available on Channel 5's streaming service 5.

They will still be broadcast on Sky Sports, which shows all of England's home matches.

Channel 5 will also stream highlights of the T20 Blast.

The first match on the channel is the women's T20 between England and West Indies at Chelmsford on Monday.

It will also show England's men against the Windies on Sunday 8 June, then Nat Sciver-Brunt's England against India on Saturday 28 June and the men's match against South Africa on Sunday 14 September.

British racing's prominent place on free-to-air television looks assured until at least the end of 2030 after it emerged a new four-year deal with ITV is set to be sealed by late summer or early autumn.

The BBC has signed a broadcast deal with Boxxer which will mean world-class professional boxing returns to prime-time television and BBC iPlayer.

The BBC will air fights from selected events on BBC TV as well as on iPlayer and the BBC Sport website.

Boxxer currently houses some of the biggest talents in UK boxing including Olympic and world champion Lauren Price.

"Bringing professional boxing back to primetime BBC television, free-to-air, and to our extensive digital platforms is an exciting moment for us and hopefully for boxing fans," said Alex Kay-Jelski, director of BBC Sport.

The first event is expected to happen by the end of the year, with dates and headliners to be announced in the coming weeks.

Boxxer, led by promoter Ben Shalom, staged an all-women's card headlined by Price and Natasha Jonas in March as well as promoting Amir Khan v Kell Brook, Liam Smith v Chris Eubank Jr, Claressa Shields v Savannah Marshall and Fabio Wardley v Frazer Clarke in recent years.

"Partnering with the BBC to deliver big-time British boxing on Saturday night TV is a historic moment," Shalom said.

"We're proud to bring the most entertaining British fighters to the biggest possible audience.