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  2. Sports broadcasting contracts in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Certain sporting events are protected by the Ofcom Code on Sports and Other Listed and Designated Events and must be broadcast live and free-to-air on terrestrial television in the UK. Presently, free-to-air means a TV channel which is free and covers 98% of the population. [1]

  3. Viaplay Xtra - Wikipedia

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    History. Viaplay Xtra launched as FreeSports on 31 August 2017 and was closed down on 25 January 2024 with the aim to provide free-to-air sports coverage and become a top three dedicated sports channel in the UK. [1] It was available on all major platforms, available in 18 million UK homes. The channel held a partnership with rights holders IMG ...

  4. TNT Sports (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    TNT Sports (United Kingdom) require Needlessly long lists of presenters in the Programming section. TNT Sports (formerly BT Sport) is a group of pay television sports channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and BT Group, they first launched on 1 August 2013.

  5. EE TV - Wikipedia

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    EE TV (formerly BT Vision and then BT TV until 2023) is a subscription IPTV service offered by EE; a brand of British telecommunications company BT Group. It requires the signing up to and use of the EE Broadband internet and phone service, with connection via EE's official router, the EE Smart Hub .

  6. List of television channels in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    A breakdown is impossible due to a) the number of platforms, b) duplication of services, c) regional services, d) part time operations, and e) audio. For the Sky platform alone, there were 485 TV stations, additionally 57 "timeshifted versions", 36 HDTV versions, 42 regional TV options, 81 audio channels, and 5 promotion channels as of mid-2010.

  7. Timeline of other British sports channels - Wikipedia

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    18 June – Amazon Prime shows its first live sport in the UK when it broadcasts live coverage of the Queen's Club tennis tournament. August – Eleven Sports UK and Ireland launches following deals with European football leagues, including Serie A and La Liga. The platform is a streaming service rather than a television channel.

  8. Ofcom Code on Sports and Other Listed and Designated Events

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    However, starting from Tokyo 2020, this deal had the effect of substantially reducing the extent of free-to-air coverage as compared with previous Games (to a single broadcast TV channel and a single online stream), with the majority of live coverage carried on pay television via Discovery's Eurosport brand. This led to complaints in the media due to the reduced free live coverage, in ...

  9. Premier Sports - Wikipedia

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    In August 2012, Premier Sports launched an online subscription streaming service, run in conjunction with Ustream. [18] The 2 Mbit/s stream broadcast all events and programming on the TV channel. In April 2013, Premier Sports launched their own online player to replace the Ustream service.