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TNT Sports (formerly BT Sport) is a group of pay television sports channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe and BT Group, they first launched on 1 August 2013. The channels are based at Warner Bros. Discovery's complex in Chiswick Business Park, London, having been based at Here East, the former ...
www.eirsport.ie. Eir Sport 1 (formerly Setanta Ireland) was an Irish pay television sports channel featuring local and international sporting events. The channel is available on some basic cable packages in Ireland, while it is available upon direct subscription to the Eir Sport package on other networks across Ireland.
The company was founded in 1990 by a consortium headed by business magnate Denis O'Brien and was originally known as Esat Telecom. The name Esat, said to be an abbreviation of "Éireann Satellite" and connected to O'Brien's bid for Ireland's communications satellite licence under the 1977 ITU frequency plans, would become much more associated with telecommunications in Ireland, however.
Ireland's matches are shown on Channel 4 and Wales' games are broadcast on S4C. 2021. 1 February – Coverage of UK greyhound racing moves to a new channel called Sporty Stuff HD, which broadcasts on satellite. The sport had previously been shown on Live 360 - an offshoot of Nigerian news channel Arise News - since the closure of Front Runner ...
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 ...
6 March – TV3 begins broadcasting in widescreen format on Sky Ireland. 30 March – Launch of Channel 6. [9] March – Launch of City Channel Galway. 23 August – ITV secures a deal to sell its 45% stake in TV3 for £70m. [10] 31 October – Sky announces plans to end its nightly Sky News Ireland broadcasts from 30 November.
Premier Sports was formed in 2009 by the Irish businessman Michael O'Rourke, [1] a joint CEO and part owner of Setanta Sports and former director of Premium Sports. [2] The channel initially focused on broadcasting sporting events that had not been available in Great Britain since the collapse of Setanta Sports GB on 22 June 2009, and were not ...
Eircom Limited, trading as Eir (/ ɛər / AIR; stylised eir), is a large fixed, mobile and broadband telecommunications company in Ireland. The company, which is currently incorporated in Jersey, traces its origins to the Ireland's former state-owned monopoly telecommunication provider Telecom Éireann and its predecessors, P&T (the Dept. of Posts and Telegraphs) and before the foundation of ...