The network had just made a rights deal for Miami games that year, after a June 1984 Supreme Court decision forced the NCAA to allow individual conferences and schools to negotiate their own television agreements (five-year-old ESPN, just dipping its toes into the live game broadcast business at the time, would eventually pounce in a big way, of course).

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Restrictions were imposed after the kick-off time for the match at Huddersfield Town's John Smith's stadium was changed to 17:20 GMT to allow Sky to broadcast the game live.

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What's more, every Serie B game is broadcast on live TV, a fact that may also limit crowd sizes (Serie B attendance has fallen almost every year since 2002).

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Hibernian, fresh from a fine victory over Celtic, are at home to bottom side Hamilton Accies and that game will be broadcast 'as live' on BBC ALBA from 1930 GMT.

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It all starts with a visit to Wrexham, where the newly-named Crusaders start their Super League campaign against champions Leeds on Friday, 29 January in a game which will be broadcast on 5 live sports extra.

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For those of us not lucky enough to have received an invitation, the event will be not only streamed over Xbox Live and Xbox.com, but also broadcast on Spike TV home of Spike Video Game Awards.

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The league has retained rights to the majority of its digital content, which includes live-game streaming, highlight videos, statistics and its NFL.com fantasy game, even though the TV broadcast partners have repeatedly asked for them.

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For instance, Xbox Live features a Twitter app, and some consoles games, like Uncharted 2 allow players to broadcast their in-game achievements on their Twitter feeds.

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This season's competition, which sees Premier League sides enter in the third-round stage on 2 January, will continue to be broadcast on ITV, who will show three live games from the third to fifth round - one additional game - and all games from the quarter-final stage onwards.

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