Sports channel
The sports channel was a pan-European sports channel of The European Sports Network (TESN) and a competitor of the also pan-European channel Eurosport . In France it was known as TV sport , in Great Britain as screen sport and in the Netherlands as Sportnet .
history
In 1984 the sports channel went on air as a screen sport in Manchester, UK and was acquired by WH Smith Television in 1987 . Screensport was later officially renamed The European Sports Network , but continued as the Screensport brand . WHSTV was the majority shareholder with 75 percent, ESPN held 25 percent of the station's shares. This made the sports channel a sister station of the pan-European English-language television channel Lifestyle , whose main shareholder was also the British WHSTV . Lifestyle stopped broadcasting immediately before the sports channel on January 24, 1993.
Initially, Screensport was switched to a low-power satellite so that the program could be fed into cable networks . When it was switched to Astra 1A in March 1989, the pan-European program began and was broadcast in four languages: German, English, French and Dutch. At the same time, the station moved to London .
In the same year, the sports channel sued the European Community Commission against Eurosport because it felt it was at a disadvantage in the licensing of large sports broadcasts by the EBU , which was involved in Eurosport . The result was that the EBU was not allowed to favor Eurosport for a period of five years, but the 24-hour broadcast of the 1992 Winter Olympics by Eurosport , whose sole shareholder has been TF1 since 1991, nullified the judgment.
On January 13, 1993, the sports channel merged with Eurosport to avoid costly licensing disputes in court. It was agreed that the program would continue under the name Eurosport - The European Sports Network . In addition, the DSF , which started on January 1, 1993, had another competitor.
The broadcasting of the sports channel was originally supposed to cease on February 28, 1993, but it was actually only ended via the Astra 1A satellite on March 5, 1993. On the morning of March 6, 1993, the newly launched German television broadcaster RTL II took over the Astra satellite from the sports channel.
program
The sports channel broadcast around the clock on the weekends, usually from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. during the week in live broadcasts and on other sports highlights
The sports channel showed some live broadcasts , some recordings, mainly of the sports soccer (all leagues worldwide), basketball ( NBA , BBL ), American football , baseball ( MLB ), ice hockey ( NHL ), tennis , boxing and snooker .
reception
The sports channel was in 1989 in the four language versions via Astra 1A (19.2 ° East) on transponder 1 11.214 GHz received horizontal unencrypted in PAL. The French version TV Sport was transmitted via Eutelsat II-F1 (13 ° East) via transponder 46, 12.584 GHz vertical, as well as in unencrypted PAL.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Infosat No. 59, February 1993, p. 8.
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYqCTjreJiE