BT Vision has secured the rights to 38 Premier League matches per season. They successfully outbid ESPN, who currently have the rights to show matches not shown on Sky Sports. From the 2013-14 season, Sky will have the right to show live coverage of 116 games per season, and BT Vision has the rights for [...]

We’ve just noticed that a new placeholder channel has been added to the Freeview lineup: Racing UK (Channel 116) At the moment, the channel is just a placeholder, but here’s what we know so far: The channel appears to be part of the Internet TV services planned by IP Vision. We’re assuming that when this [...]

Sports channel ESPN will be making its channel available to everyone for free, for one weekend in February. Between 6am on the morning of Friday 3rd February 2012, and 6am on Monday the 6th February 2012, the ESPN channel will be free-to-view on the following services: Freeview Sky BT Vision Top Up TV The following [...]

The 14th of May is a big day in the sporting calendar – The FA Cup Final between Manchester City and Stoke This year, it will be available to watch at home, and in selected pubs, in 3D, thanks to sports channel ESPN. A deal between ESPN and Sky will allow those with a 3D [...]

We’re just a few days away from one of the year’s hot events for horseracing fans – the 100th Cheltenham Festival. For those not able to make it, here’s details of how to watch the action. The Cheltenham Festival takes place from Tuesday the 15th to Friday the 18th of March 2011. The first day, [...]

This coming weekend, sports channel ESPN will be subscription-free on some digital TV services. From 6am Friday 4th March to 6am on Monday the 7th 2011, sporting channel ESPN will be going free-to air on the Sky Digital, Virgin Media and TalkTalk TV services. Customers of those services will be able to watch the Barclays [...]

Sky Sports News will be leaving the Freeview lineup on Monday 23rd August 2010. From this date, the Sky Sports News channel will be a subscription-only channel. Sky Sports News HD also launches on Sky on 23rd August The slot on Freeview will be replaced by Sky 3 + 1

We’re conducting a short survey about sport on TV in the UK, and which service our visitors use to get their sporting action. If you can spare two minutes of your time, your thoughts would be appreciated! Take The Survey: Sport on TV Survey

Placeholders for Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 have been added to the Freeview channel lineup today, the 5th of July 2010. The channels, currently labelled BT 1 and BT 2, are placeholders for the Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 service to be offered by BT Vision from August 2010. They can [...]

With the 2010/11 football season fast approaching, BT Vision has just announced pricing for their Sky Sports service. Ofcom recently ruled that Sky has to offer their sports content to other TV services at reasonable prices, and this has allowed BT Vision to be able to offer the most popular sports packages at prices significantly [...]

Customers of the Virgin Media TV service will soon be offered Sky Sports 1 HD, Sky Sports 2 HD and Sky Movies  HD. Virgin’s HD channel lineup needs a boost, and the addition of Sky’s premium sport and movies channels is something that Virgin’s customers have been calling for, for a while. The deal between [...]

Setanta Sports used to offer subscription to those with a Freeview TV or set-top box. Those with a Freeview TV needed something called a CAM, which is a metal card that slides into the TV set and accepts a subscription card. Setanta used to sell these cards to customers. When Setanta ceased to offer their [...]

This Saturday, the 10th October, England play Ukraine as part of the 2010 World Cup qualifiers. So, which TV service do you need to watch the match? BBC? ITV? Sky Sports? ESPN? Answer – None of the above. Setanta Sports had originally bought the rights for this England away match, but after Setanta’s collapse, the [...]

The 2009/10 Barclays Premier League football season starts tomorrow – You can catch the action on Sky Digital, Virgin Media, BT Vision and Top Up TV. In case you’re not yet signed up to a digital TV service that’ll get you the sporting action, all is not lose – you can watch tmorrow’s action, plus [...]

As of today, ESPN is available on BT Vision. If you’re a football fan, you’ll be aware that Setanta Sports went into administration in June 2009, and ESPN acquired the rights to the English and Scottish Premier League matches previously owned by Setanta. ESPN now has a UK sports channel to cover the Premier League [...]

From 3rd August 2009, Virgin Media will be carrying the ESPN channel, which will show the 2009/10 Premier League matches originally intended to be shown by Setanta. Earlier this month, ESPN came to an agreement with Sky to carry the Premier League matches on a new ESPN channel – now Virgin has signed up too. [...]

Since the failure of Setanta in June, former Setanta subscribers have been wondering what will happen next, and what will happen to the 46 Premier League matches that Setanta was scheduled to show. As we’ve reported before, Disney-owned ESPN has snapped up the coverage, and we now have some more detail on next steps. From [...]

We’ve had a couple of mails from site visitors asking out coverage of the UFC 100, now that Setanta Sports is no more. We understand that tonight’s Ultimate Fighting Championship event will be shown on Sky in the UK tonight (11 Jun 2009) on Racing World, channel 433. Programming starts from 9pm, with the main [...]

As reported, Setanta Sports went off-air yesterday, 23rd June, after going into administration. Disney-owned sports service ESPN has just bought up the rights to show 46 Premier League matches from the 2009/2010 football season, and it seems that they have geared up very quickly to offer ESPN on existing services Tonight, Freeview channel 34, previously [...]

It’s been on the cards for weeks, but today at 2:30pm, troubled Setanta Sports finally went into administration. For information on this, and how it affects Setanta’s 1.2 million UK customers, see our new Setanta Help and Advice page