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1937 - BBC television broadcasts world's first live football match, a specially arranged fixture between Arsenal and Arsenal reserves

1996 - The DTI announces that UHF channel 35 will once again be free for Channel 5 to use, potentially adding an extra 4m viewers to the new channel and increasing its maximum coverage to 80% of the population. As a result of the extra re-tuning involved, Channel 5 announces it will have to delay its planned launch date of 1st January 1997.

1996 - David Elstein, formerly Head of Programming at BSkyB and before that Head of Programming for Thames Television, becomes the Chief Executive Officer of Channel 5 Broadcasting.

2002 - Channel 5 revamps its presentation, changing its name to 'five' and ceasing the use of both its colour bar trademark and its DOG.