Live Cricket back on the BBC from 2020

In light of England winning the Cricket World Cup yesterday, with a peak of over 8million watching on Channel 4 and Sky Sports, a reminder that English international and domestic cricket will be shown live on BBC TV from 2020.

In a five-year deal with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), more than 100 hours of cricket will be broadcast each summer.

The contract includes live TV coverage of England men and women’s Twenty20 internationals and the ECB’s new men’s domestic T20 tournament.

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Freesports confirms HD launch on Freesat

Freesports has confirmed that its Freesports HD channel will also be available to Freesat customers when it launches later this month.

Originally Freesports had only confirmed its HD channel would be launched on Sky TV on the 15th July 2019, with mentioned of a Freesat launch missing.

But it has now confirmed that it will also launch its HD channel on Freesat shortly after it has been added to Sky.

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Discovery set to rename Home to Home and Garden TV (HGTV)

As part of its channel restructure, Discovery have today announced that Home will be rebranded to Home and Garden TV (HGTV).

Discovery acquired channels Home, Really and Good Food two weeks ago as part of a deal with BBC Studios when the two owners split up the UKTV group of channels.

Sony TV True Crime channel set to close again

The True Crime channel, available across the UK on Sky and Virgin Media, looks like it will be closing on the 30th June 2019.

On both Sky and Virgin the TV guides advise viewers that from the morning of 1st July 2019, programmes are “no longer available”.

This is happening just months after the channel was resurrected

But as there is already a “Sony Crime Channel”, perhaps there was not enough to keep “True Crime” going…