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WHICH CHANNEL IS THE CARABAO CUP FINAL ON?

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Graphic promoting the Carabao Cup match between Arsenal and Manchester City, featuring the respective team logos and match details including date, time, and venue.

When is the final?

The final will take place at Wembley on Sunday, March 22.

What channel is it on?

The match is live on both Sky Sports and ITV 1 in the UK.

Will Sky and ITV have their own teams covering the match?

Although Sky hold the UK TV rights for the Carabao Cup and screen every game from the competition live, they struck a deal with ITV that the free-to-air broadcaster could show ten games a season from the tournament.

ITV use Sky’s live match pictures for those games in the run-up to the final, but have their own commentators, presenters, pundits, reporters and pre and after-match coverage and their own branded graphics. However, last season for the final itself, ITV took a straight simulcast of Sky’s coverage so that could well happen again this season. It might be this is part of the agreement as having Sky’s full broadcast on ITV gives the subscription service a huge bonus of promoting its others sports and programmes to a free-to-air audience.

FA CUP FOURTH ROUND TV GAMES

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Image displaying the logos of all teams participating in the fourth round of the Emirates FA Cup, set against a red background.

FA CUP FOURTH ROUND ON TV

  • Ties will be played on the weekend of Friday, February 13 to Monday, February 16.
  • Each club in the main TNT Sports/BBC One games will receive a £100,000 TV fee.
  • Each club in ties on BBC Wales and discovery+ will receive a £50,000 TV fee.
  • The fifth round draw will be on TNT Sports and TNT Sports YouTube before Monday’s Macclesfield v Brentford game.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 15

FA CUP

7.45PM HULL V CHELSEA (BBC ONE & TNT SPORTS 1)

7.45PM WREXHAM V IPSWICH FA CUP (BBC ONE WALES & DISCOVERY+)

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 14

FA CUP

12.15PM BURTON V WEST HAM (TNT SPORTS 1)

5.45PM ASTON VILLA V NEWCASTLE (BBC ONE & TNT SPORTS 3)

8PM LIVERPOOL V BRIGHTON (TNT SPORTS 1)

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 15

FA CUP

12NOON BIRMINGHAM V LEEDS (TNT SPORTS 3)

1.30PM GRIMSBY V WOLVES (TNT SPORTS 1)

2PM STOKE V FULHAM (DISCOVERY+)

2PM OXFORD V SUNDERLAND (DISCOVERY+)

4.30PM ARSENAL V WIGAN (TNT SPORTS 1)

MONDAY FEBRUARY 16

7.30PM MACCLESFIELD V BRENTFORD FA CUP (TNT SPORTS 1)

PARAMOUNT SNATCH CHAMPIONS LEAGUE UK TV RIGHTS FROM TNT AS SKY TAKE EUROPA GAMES

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What we know

  • Paramount+ win rights to the majority of the Champions League games in the UK for four years from the 2027-28 season.
  • Amazon Prime keep their ‘first pick’ Tuesday night game.
  • Sky Sports will show the Europa League and Europa Conference League after taking the rights from TNT.
  • FREE-TO-AIR highlights remain on the BBC.

TNT Sports has lost its live European football rights to Paramount+ and Sky Sports in a major shake-up.

Paramount+ will take over TNT rights Champions League rights from the start of the 2027-28 season.

Amazon Prime will keep their current rights which gives it the ‘first pick’ Tuesday game in the UK.

And in a further blow to TNT, Sky Sports has snatched its Europa League and Europa Conference League rights. Again the deal will come into force from 2027.

Paramount already hold the Champions League rights in America where they broadcast matches through CBS Sports and Paramount+. Clips of their acclaimed studio coverage – hosted by Kate Abdo and including Thierry Henry, Jamie Carragher and Micah Richards – regularly gain traction on social media in the UK.

Paramount are the parent company of Channel 5 in the UK which will lead to speculation that they could make some matches free-to-air, although it is in no way guaranteed that would be a strategy they’d pursue. TNT currently make the finals of all three competitions available without a subscription online.

The cheapest UK subscription for Paramount+ is £4.99, although Sky Cinema subscribers get it bundled in their package for free.

Sky are heralding their new Europa deal as meaning they can offer live football every day of the week along with their other rights which include the Premier League, EFL, Scottish football and Women’s Super League.

The BBC has also retained its highlights package. It will continue to produce the Champions League version of Match of the Day and have mini highlights packages on the BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport.

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