

Sky Sports News, which regularly shows clips and highlights from games, is available to all Sky and Virgin Media subscribers regardless of package.Īs well as being able to watch football on TV in the UK, fans can stream games live online and using various apps. On Channel 5, you can watch highlights from the Championship on Football on 5: The Championship, which airs on Saturdays at 21:00. See the table below for the free games on UK TV this week.įurthermore, highlights from all Premier League matches are shown on BBC One's Match of the Day programme, which generally airs on Saturdays at 22:30. National broadcasters such as BBC, BBC Scotland and S4C occasionally show matches from the UK, with a few available to watch this week.įree-to-air channel Freesports shows games from Portugal's Primeira Liga and Belgium's Jupiler Pro League, while BritAsia TV broadcasts games from the Indian Super League. There are a number of games throughout the week that can be watched live for free on a variety of different channels.


Check availability of the HD or SD feed with your pay-tv carrier.Borussia Monchengladbach vs Borussia Dortmund While an HD feed was introduced in 2012, the service is not permanent in all cable companies. The service provided a similar approach to the 2016 games, but there were only eight video streams available.īBC Red Button may be available on most digital television platforms. In fact, the service provided up to 24 live streams for fans to keep track of all competitions during the 2012 games held in London. Speaking about sports, BBC Red Button has provided extensive coverage of Premier League and the Olympic Games. The service was rebranded as BBC Red Button + in 2015. Nevertheless, the name BBC iPlayer pays tribute to this service with its branding. The service’s rebranding in 2008 was an effort by the BBC to drop the “i” from its digital service. Such broadcasts included additional information of player profiles, match information and more. The “red button” denomination is a reference to remote controls for digital televisions and set-top boxes.īBC Text developed what some refer to as an early form of on-demand interactive television, which was named Enhanced TV. The service kept that name until 2008, when it acquired the name BBC Red Button. The service was first launched back in September of 1999 as BBC Text, and it was later rebranded as BBCi in 2001.

BBC Red Button is a digital interactive television service owned by the BBC, which broadcasts its content in the UK.
