Recent Posts by Adrian Pennington
By Adrian Pennington | Monday, April 15, 2024 - 11:48
The 177th running of the Grand National is NEP’s eighth with ITV Racing and this year they’ve had considerable weather challenges during the build, with high winds, wet weather and […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Friday, April 12, 2024 - 09:10
The world’s most watched horse race comes to screens once again this weekend courtesy of the thoroughbred BAFTA-winning ITV Racing team. At Aintree, Liverpool, UK, the broadcaster is in the […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Monday, November 6, 2023 - 10:30
The ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 is in its penultimate week of a mammoth 46 day schedule culminating in the final on 19 November at the world’s largest cricket […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 10:23
Two NFL games came to London earlier this month, with the Buffalo Bills facing off against the Jacksonville Jaguars on 8 October, before the Tennessee Titans took on the Baltimore […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Thursday, May 25, 2023 - 15:06
TV viewers may not have seen them live but Eurovision’s backstage team were the real heroes of the song contest that saw Sweden’s Loreen (pictured above) crowned winner (again) watched […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 10:21
When the elements align, as they did so powerfully last May, it’s easy to see why the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) can justifiably be called the greatest show on Earth. […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Friday, April 14, 2023 - 15:55
A unique part of the Grand National, which tales place on Saturday 15 April, is the ‘rerun’, where immediately after the live race finishes, a detailed analysis, led by Ruby […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Friday, April 14, 2023 - 15:45
ITV took over the contract for the UK’s terrestrial racing broadcasts from Channel 4 in 2017. This year marks the end of its second three-year deal with Racecourse Media Group (RMG) […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Friday, April 14, 2023 - 15:35
“We go racing every week of the year and produce over a 100 race meets but there’s so much more of it at Aintree,” says Rob Oldham, tech producer at […]
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By Adrian Pennington | Friday, April 14, 2023 - 15:20
Since taking over the contract to broadcast horse racing across the UK six years ago, ITV has committed to presenting the sport as entertainment. Nowhere is this more important or […]
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