Commercial broadcasting is the broadcasting of television programs and radio programming by privately owned corporate media, as opposed to state sponsorship, for example. It was the United States' first model of radio during the 1920s, in contrast with the public television model during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, which prevailed worldwide, except in the United States, Mexico, and Brazil, until the 1980s.
Setanta Sports Media is a sports television company based in Dublin, Ireland and in Tbilisi, Georgia, broadcasting throughout select Eurasian countries, and the Philippines. The company was formed in 1990 to facilitate the broadcasting of Irish sporting events to international audiences. The company previously operated channels in Ireland, the UK, Asia, Africa, Australia, the United States, and Canada. It is currently owned by Georgia-based media outlet Adjarasport.
ESPN America was a British-based European sports network, focusing on professional and collegiate sports of the United States and Canada. Originally launched on 5 December 2002 as NASN, ESPN America broadcast a selection of top North American professional and collegiate sports leagues including Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA), National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and Canadian Football League (CFL), 24 hours a day on digital cable and digital satellite television.
Rugby league is a minor sport in Scotland, dwarfed by the popularity of association football and rugby union, and to a lesser extent curling, ice hockey and shinty.
Sky Deutschland GmbH, branded as Sky, is a German media company that operates a direct broadcast satellite Pay TV platform in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It provides a collection of basic and premium digital subscription television channels of different categories via satellite and cable television.
EE TV 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.
Sky Sport is a group of nine sports satellite TV channels in the Italian language produced and broadcast by Sky Italia.
Sky Sports is a group of British subscription sports channels operated by the satellite pay television company Sky Group, and is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It has played a major role in the increased commercialisation of British sport since 1991, and has sometimes played a large role inducing organisational changes in the sports it broadcasts, most notably when it encouraged the First Division to break away from the Football League to form the Premier League in 1992.
Sky Sports F1 is a television channel created exclusively for Sky's UK and Ireland coverage of Formula One, which has subsequently expanded to become home to all of Sky Sports' motorsport coverage, although Formula One remains as the mainstay of the channel with Sky Sports having the rights to show Formula One until 2029.
beIN Sports is a Qatari multinational network of sports channels owned and operated by the Qatari media group beIN. The network has played a major role in the increased commercialization of Qatari sports. Its chairman is Nasser Al-Khelaifi, and its CEO is Yousef Obaidly.
Stephen Brown is an English television presenter, public speaker, athlete mentor and a former member and captain of the Great Britain wheelchair rugby squad.
TNT Sports is a group of pay television sports channels in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Now owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and BT Group, they first launched as BT Sport on 1 August 2013.
The National Hockey League (NHL) is shown on national television in the United States and Canada. With 25 teams in the U.S. and 7 in Canada, the NHL is the only one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada that maintains separate national broadcasters in each country, each producing separate telecasts of a slate of regular season games, playoff games, and the Stanley Cup Finals.
Viaplay Xtra was a British sports television channel operated and owned by Viaplay Group.
This is a timeline of the history of rugby union on television in the UK.
TAP Sports is a Philippine pay television network of sports channels owned by TAP Digital Media Ventures Corporation. It was launched on April 14, 2019, under two separate channels carried by Sky Cable, and was later relaunched the following year.
Sky Sport Arena is an Italian television channel that broadcasts sport championships. The channel began broadcasting on March 10, 2014 and is based on the Sky Sport newspaper. It is an encrypted channel and does not operate through a subscription system. It broadcasts directly free sports training, warm-up exercises, and races for all international races and other categories such as: Moto2, Moto3, and MotoE.
Sky Sport Uno It Sky Sport Uno is an Italian television channel, published by Sky Italia. It began broadcasting on 31 July 2003 with the launch of the Sky Italia platform, with the Irdeto (Irdeto)، encryption system, which is difficult to decipher without a subscription and which was previously operated by TELE+ Bianco, and even before that by TELE+2, and by 2018, it will also be available on some digital channels. 472 and 482. Its programming is dedicated to the most important sporting events, including one of the most important matches of the Italian League Championship.
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