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With the launch of the Sky Digital satellite platform on 1 October 1998, Sky Sports launched Sky Sports News, a channel carrying rolling sports news coverage, followed by Sky Sports Xtra (later branded as Sky Sports 4 since 2010, then Sky Sports Golf since 2017) in August 1999.
6 January – Sky Sports Xtra is renamed Sky Sports 4. January – Sky Sports regains the rights to golf's PGA Tour. [15] 3 April – Sky 3D launches, initially as a commercial channel. The first event to be shown is a football match. Residential customers get access to the channel on 1 October. [16] [17] 29 April – Sky Sports 4HD launches. [18]
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.
It is available to all Sky customers, and is designed to offer a sampling of content from the full range of Sky Sports networks to non-Sky Sports customers. [89] [90] 2017. 4 January – Sky Cinema Box Office closes. 18 July – Sky Sports is revamped with the numbered channels being replaced by sports-specific channels. These include two ...
Sky Sport or Sky Sports may refer to: Sky Group. Sky Sports, a group of sports television channels available in the UK and Ireland; Sky Sport (Germany), a group of sports television channels available in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, formerly called Premiere Sport; Sky Sport (Italy), a group of sports television channels available in Italy
On 1 March 2007, Virgin Media removed Sky's basic channels including Sky One, Sky Two, Sky News, Sky Sports News, Sky Travel and Sky Travel Extra, from their Television Services after a dispute between Virgin Media and BSkyB caused by the expiry of their carriage agreement and their inability to reach a new deal, [4] after attempts were made to reach an agreement.
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