BBC Sport extends Wimbledon contract

The BBC has just announced that they have just secured the rights to broadcast the Wimbledon Tennis Championship for another five years, this takes the BBC deal with Wimbledon up to 2014 and will allow the BBC to use TV, Radio, Broadband, HD and of no BBC deal would worth talking about without the famous iPlayer too.

This has been a very busy and exciting time for the executives over at BBC Sport, and really the way that the BBC has embraced new technology and platforms for delivering it, it is little wonder that many of the organisations behind sport are looking to the BBC to cover their sports, but this of course is not always possible due to the high costs involved.

The Wimbledon Tennis Championships have been available on the television way back in 1927 and it was the BBC who broadcast this first championship. However coverage for this year and from now on will be entirely different to anything ever seen before and in ways that viewers may not have even dreamed of before. The BBC must be very proud of themselves.

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