Screensport
The sports channel was a pan-European sports channel of The European Sports Network ( TESN ) and also a competitor of the pan-European sports channel euros. In France he was known as a TV sport in the UK as a screen- and Sport in the Netherlands as Sportnet.
History
In 1984, the sports channel went as screen sports in Manchester, UK on the air and was acquired in 1987 by WH Smith Television. Later screen sport was officially renamed The European Sports Network, but continued as a sports brand screen. WHSTV was 75 percent majority shareholder, ESPN held a 25 percent stake of the transmitter. Therefore, the sports channel was a sister channel of the pan-European English-language TV channel Lifestyle, whose main shareholder was also the British WHSTV. Lifestyle presented immediately before the sports channel, on January 24, 1993 began broadcasting a.
First Screen Sport was switched to a low-power satellites, so that the program could be fed into cable networks. With the intrusion on Astra 1A in March 1989, the pan-European program, which was German in the four languages , English, French and Dutch broadcast began. At the same time the station moved to London.
In the same year, the sports channel complained to the Commission of the European Community against euro sport, because it felt when granting licenses for large sporting events by the EBU, which was involved in Euro Sports, disadvantaged. Result was that the EBU Euro Sport was not allowed before share over a period of five years, but the 24 -hour broadcast of the 1992 Winter Olympics by euro sport whose sole shareholder since 1991, TF1, nullified the verdict.
On 13 January 1993, the sports channel merged with euro sport, to escape the still costly licensing disputes in court. The program will, as it was agreed under the name Euro Sport - continued The European Sports Network. From this point, trailers were aired in the program up to the attitude of the station, which pointed out on the basis of fusion of the forthcoming program setting with Euro Sport. In addition, matters further, you would get with the DSF, which started on 1 January 1993 a further competitors.
The transmissions of the sports channel should be initially set at 28 February 1993 but was this actually set via the Astra satellite 1A until the expiry of March 5 1993. On the morning of 6 March 1993, the German television station RTL rebooted took over the two Astra satellites from space sports channel.
Program
The sports channel sent on the weekends around the clock, a week usually from 08:00 bis 02:00 clock clock, live broadcasts or other sporting events but also beyond.
The sports channel showed some live broadcasts, otherwise records, especially from the sports of football ( Spanish and Italian leagues ), 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 horizontal unencrypted received in PAL. About Eutelsat II -F1 (13 ° East ) was the French version of TV Sports on transponder 46, 12,584 GHz vertically transmitted, as well as in clear PAL.