The Premier League is the top level of the English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Football League (EFL).
Gary Winston Lineker is an English former professional footballer and current sports broadcaster. He holds England's record for goals in FIFA World Cup finals, with 10 scored. Lineker's media career began with the BBC, where he has presented the flagship football programme Match of the Day since the late 1990s. He has also worked for Al Jazeera Sports, Eredivisie Live, NBC Sports Network and currently hosts BT Sport's coverage of the UEFA Champions League.
Fox Soccer was an American television specialty channel specializing in soccer, owned by Fox Corporation, which operated from 1997 to 2013. It formerly broadcast rugby and Australian rules football, but in its final years it was devoted strictly to soccer.
Talksport, owned by Wireless Group, is a sports radio station and the Global Audio Partner of the Premier League.
The Championship was a British football television programme featuring highlights from the Coca-Cola Football League. It was almost always shown on Sunday mornings on ITV, presented by Matt Smith. Despite its name, it also covered Football League One and Football League Two matches, albeit to a lesser extent than Championship matches.
Scotsport was a Scottish sports television programme, broadcast on STV in northern and central Scotland, as well as on ITV Border in southern Scotland.
Graeme Pierre Le Saux is a retired professional footballer. He played from 1989 to 2005 starting as a left winger during his first spell at Chelsea, eventually becoming a left back for Chelsea, Blackburn Rovers and Southampton, and for the England national football team.
Jacob John "Jake" Humphrey is an English television presenter and journalist, best known for presenting CBBC's BAMZOOKi, and BBC Sport's coverage of Formula One from 2009 until 2012. He is the main presenter of BT Sport football coverage and Director of Whisper Films.
BBC Sport is a department of the BBC North division 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, Today at Wimbledon and previously Grandstand. Results, analysis and coverage is also added to the BBC Sport Website and through the BBC Red Button interactive television service.
English football on television has been broadcast since 1938. Since the establishment of the Premier League in 1992, English football has become a very lucrative industry. As of the 2013-14 season, domestic television rights for the 20-team Premier League are worth £1 billion a year. The league generates €2.2 billion per year in domestic and international television rights.
Football Focus is a BBC television magazine programme covering football, normally broadcast live on BBC One on Saturday lunchtimes during the football season. Since the 2009–10 season, Football Focus has been hosted by Dan Walker. The programme is broadcast from BBC Sport's headquarters and main studios in MediaCityUK in Salford, although some episodes are broadcast on location, from football grounds around the country. A version of the programme focusing on world football airs on BBC World News.
Match of the Day 2 is a Premier League football highlights programme.
ITV Sport is a sport producer for ITV. It was formed following the merger between Granada Sport and Central Sport.
Sportscene is the name of a range of Scottish sports television programmes produced by BBC Scotland.
Rebecca Lowe is an English television presenter and anchor who works for NBC and NBC Sports. She previously worked at the BBC, Setanta Sports and ESPN.
Sky Sports is a group of subscription-television sports channels operated by the satellite pay-TV company Sky, a division of Comcast. Sky Sports is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It has played a major role in the increased commercialisation of British sport since 1991, sometimes playing a large role in inducing organisational changes in the sports it broadcasts, most notably when it encouraged the Premier League to break away from the Football League in 1992.
BT Sport is a group of sports television channels provided by BT Consumer; a division of BT Group in the United Kingdom and Ireland that was launched on 1 August 2013. The channels are based at the former International Broadcast Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. BT Sport is available on the BT TV, Sky and Virgin Media television platforms in the UK and Sky, Eir TV and Vodafone TV in the Republic of Ireland.
The 2015–16 Premier League was the 24th season of the Premier League, the top English professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1992. The season began on 8 August 2015, and was scheduled to conclude on 15 May 2016. However, the Manchester United vs Bournemouth fixture was postponed to 17 May 2016 on the final day due to a suspicious package inside Old Trafford.
Premier League on NBC is a live telecast of the English Premier League produced by NBC Sports exclusively for viewers in the United States. NBC's coverage of the Premier League is quite similar to broadcasts produced by English television companies such as Sky Sports and BT Sport. Coverage begins with the pre-match show called Premier League Live and a post-match show by the name of Goal Zone. NBC's highlight show is a programme called Match of the Day based on BBC's show of the same name.
