Not to mention all the excitement of England’s under-17s World Cup victory over Spain last weekend when nearly 400,000 watched the match live online. Plus much more from a diverse range of sports that includes British Basketball League matches, British Athletics events, wheelchair tennis, netball, ice hockey and badminton. We streamed a match live from every qualifying round of the FA Cup (a first in the prestigious tournament’s history), shown live Women’s Super League football matches for the first time this season and used new technology to deliver live coverage of the Rugby League Challenge Cup. So what did we learn? Well, there certainly is demand! We have had millions of requests to view this live content. We’re also providing training and expertise from our world-class programme makers to ensure a consistent quality of coverage across the service. We’re giving sports bodies access to our live-streaming technology so they have the means, and access to two of the most popular digital services in the UK - BBC Sport and BBC iPlayer - so they have a platform. And it means we can give our audiences even more choice. We’re working closely with a wide range of sporting bodies to showcase more of these sports to help them grow their audience. It is all part of our ambition to provide more sport for more people - in partnership with the industry. It’s worth highlighting that these extra hours will be on top of all the major sport we’re bringing you over the next few years - like the Olympic Games to 2024, the Wimbledon Championships to 2024, the World Cup to 2022, Euro 2020,plus the 6 Nations and FA Cup to 2021.
We’ve made around 500 hundred hours of content available to test audience appetite, and to make any adjustments we might need to tweak under the hood, before making a commitment as big as this. It also means you can personalise those services to make sure you don’t miss any of your favourite sports whenever they’re on the BBC.įor the last six months we’ve been putting this idea through its paces. The extra coverage will all be broadcast online on BBC Sport and BBC iPlayer, which means you can watch it on PCs, tablets, mobiles and connected TVs. We’ve just announced the BBC’s biggest increase in live sport in a generation - aiming to bring an additional 1,000 hours of coverage from around 30 additional sports and events each year. BBC Sport’s live streaming service in action.
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