Champions League Live (2005)
Champions League Live is a football programme currently shown on both ITV and Sky Sports in the United Kingdom, broadcasting live UEFA Champions League football. Under the current rights agreement, the ITV network shows one live match on a Wednesday, with Sky Sports showing all other matches via its interactive service. On Tuesdays, Sky Sports show all eight games, including those involving the English clubs. Both channels show the final live. Despite sharing the name, the various programmes are different productions. In the 1990s ITV were the only British company to have coverage and showed matches on Tuesday and Wednesday involving British teams and this was branded as The Big Match - Champions League Live. Towards the end of the millennium ITV coverage was on Wednesday night on ITV and ITV2 with Tuesday night on On Digital or the ITV Sport Channel and some on the ITN/ITV News Channel. In 2002 Sky won the rights and ITV only had 2 picks for Tuesday matches with matches on ITV and ITV2 or ITV4 when that launched and the rest on sky on their sports channels or via their digital service. This remained up to 2008 season when Sky won all the rights bar first pick on Wednesday night which remained with ITV and this meant no live coverage on ITV4 bar highlights or preview programmes, this was in turn with ITV making Wednesday night their main football night with FA Cup replays, England Internationals and Champions League on Wednesday night. In 2012 ITV coverage returned to Tuesday nights as England Internationals and FA Cup shifted back to Tuesday night and yet again Tuesday night is ITV's main football night.