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| March 13 2025 | BBC announced new exclusive audio rights to continue Formula One coverage on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra for three seasons (2025-2027). |
| 2025 | BBC Sport continues broadcasting rights for IAAF World Championships in Athletics |
| 2025 | End of highlights coverage of Ryder Cup on BBC Sport. |
| 2025 | BBC Sport continues broadcasting rights for various rugby union events on television and radio, including coverage of domestic and international matches across different BBC regional channels. |
| 2025 | BBC Sport will continue to hold Premier League highlights broadcasting rights until this year. |
| 2025 | BBC Sport will continue to hold FA Cup broadcasting rights, including 16 live matches from round 1 to final, until this year. |
| 2025 | BBC Sport will continue to hold FA Community Shield highlights broadcasting rights until this year. |
| 2025 | BBC's joint rights to the Six Nations championship with ITV Sport are set to expire, concluding their broadcasting partnership for rugby union coverage. |
| 2024 | Mark Prince, an English boxer, wins the Helen Rollason Award for his work at the Kiyan Prince Foundation, a charity he founded in memory of his son, which uses boxing to deter people from getting involved in knife crime. |
| 2024 | BBC Sport's broadcasting rights for World Snooker Championship, UK Championship, and Masters tournaments are set to expire |
| 2024 | BBC Sport will continue to share live coverage of Challenge Cup matches, including sixth-round matches, quarter-finals, semi-finals, and the final. |
| 2024 | BBC Sport maintains broadcasting rights for IAAF Diamond League |
| 2024 | BBC Sport and Eurosport will conclude live Olympic Games coverage |
| 2024 | End of live television coverage of The Open Championship on BBC Sport, with highlights continuing. |
| 2024 | BBC Sport's current cricket broadcasting rights expire, covering England Men & Women Test, ODI & T20 Highlights, T20 International live coverage, and The Hundred matches. |
| 2024 | BBC Sport will continue to hold Scottish Professional Football League highlights and live match broadcasting rights until the 2024-25 season. |
| 2024 | BBC will continue Olympic broadcasting through a sub-licensing arrangement with Discovery, maintaining their long-standing Olympic coverage tradition. |
| 2023 | Fatima Whitbread, an English athlete, receives the Helen Rollason Award for her campaigning for children and those in the care system, drawing from her experience of spending the first fourteen years of her life in a children's home. |
| 2023 | BBC Sport retains broadcasting rights for UK Athletics major events and IAAF World Cross Country Championships |
| 2023 | BBC Sport begins providing live coverage of all Formula E races, qualifying sessions, and practice sessions on BBC iPlayer. |
| 2023 | BBC Sport's Formula One broadcasting rights maintained, covering live races, qualifying sessions, and practices through at least the end of 2023. |
| 2022 | Rob Burrow, an English rugby league player, wins the Helen Rollason Award for raising awareness of and fundraising for motor neurone disease. |
| 2022 | BBC Sport's coverage of Winter Olympics concluded, ending their live broadcasting rights for the event. |
| 2022 | BBC Sport began live coverage of the World Seniors Darts Championship on BBC iPlayer, expanding its darts broadcasting portfolio. |
| 2022 | BBC Sport concluded live coverage of the Commonwealth Games |
| 2022 | BBC Sport continued live broadcasting rights for all FIFA World Cup Finals matches. |
| 2022 | BBC aired daily highlights of the US Masters for the last time. |
| 2022 | BBC re-acquired terrestrial rights to broadcast the Olympics through a sub-licensing agreement with Discovery. |
| 2021 | Jen Beattie, a Scottish footballer, receives the Helen Rollason Award for continuing to play for both club and country after being diagnosed with breast cancer. |
| 2021 | BBC Sport's broadcasting rights for The Boat Race concluded, ending their live coverage of the event on BBC Sport |
| 2021 | BBC Sport provided live coverage of all matches for the Rugby League World Cup, Women's Rugby League World Cup, and Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup. |
| 2021 | Discovery sub-licensed exclusive pay television Olympic rights from the BBC. |
| 2020 | Captain Sir Thomas Moore wins the Helen Rollason Award for his fundraising efforts, raising over £30 million by walking 100 laps of his 25-metre garden before his 100th birthday to support NHS Charities Together. |
| 2020 | Smart TV app was set to be retired, with most video content moved to the iPlayer Smart TV app. |
| 2020 | BBC Sport's horse racing rights coverage ends for major races including Cheltenham Festival, The Grand National, and The Derby |
| 2020 | BBC continued broadcasting FIFA Club World Cup tournament, featuring Liverpool's matches. |
| 2020 | Sky Sports gained exclusive live coverage of all four rounds of the US Masters. |
| 2020 | BBC's existing Olympic rights deal concluded, marking a transition in their Olympic broadcasting strategy. |
| 2020 | BBC's broadcasting rights for ATP World Tour Finals extended, set to run until 2020 in partnership with Sky Sports. |
| August 30 2020 | BBC broadcast the second England vs Pakistan Twenty20 International, marking its first live cricket broadcast in 21 years, featuring commentary from Isa Guha, Michael Vaughan, Phil Tufnell, and other notable cricket personalities. |
| 2019 | Doddie Weir, a Scottish rugby union player, wins the Helen Rollason Award for raising awareness of motor neurone disease through his charitable foundation. |
| 2019 | BBC broadcast Liverpool's matches live on BBC One (final) and BBC Two (semi-final) during the FIFA Club World Cup tournament. |
| 2019 | Lost free-to-air (FTA) rights to broadcast Davis Cup matches after the International Tennis Federation launched a new tournament format. |
| 2019 | BBC's last year of holding live coverage rights for the US Masters, previously broadcasting Saturday and Sunday's play and highlights of Thursday and Friday's play. |
| 2018 | Billy Monger, an English motorsport athlete, receives the Helen Rollason Award for returning to racing after a double leg amputation following a crash. |
| 2018 | BBC Sport secured live broadcasting rights for all FIFA World Cup Finals matches. |
| 2018 | BBC began live coverage of Formula E races, introducing Jack Nicholls and Dario Franchitti as commentators, with Nicki Shields as pit lane reporter. |
| 2018 | BBC signed a broadcasting deal to share TV rights with Sky Sports for the Netball World Cup in Liverpool, marking a significant expansion of netball coverage. |
| 2018 | Following the Vitality England Roses Squad's success at the Commonwealth Games, BBC Sport increased its coverage of netball. |
| 2018 | BBC entered into sub-licensing agreements with Discovery Communications for Olympic broadcasting rights, beginning with the Winter Olympics. |
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