Sambiasso Posted 12 August 2017 Share Posted 12 August 2017 The management team behind Setanta Sports and Premier Sport are preparing to launch a new sports channel in the UK. FreeSports, which this week received Ofcom licences covering satellite, cable and terrestrial platforms, promises to offer a variety of sports on a free-to-air basis from the end of August. The channel's directors include Richard Sweeney and Michael O'Rourke from Setanta Sports and Premier Sports. Setanta Sports Broadcasting Limited of Dublin is listed as third director, according to Companies House, under rules that allow companies to be directors. Details of which competitions Freesports will show are still unclear, although the channel is due to cover tennis, rugby and football. The channel is due to launch 31st August 2017. The management team are once again working with broadcast infrastructure company Arqiva to get the channel on to viewer's screens, having worked together since the days of Setanta Sports UK. Arqiva has provided Freeview capacity on its COM8 multiplex, with the new channel's signal due to reach up to 3/4 of UK households via devices that support Freeview HD or Freeview Play. A placeholder for the new service now appears on Freeview 95 for viewers in the coverage area. Details about carriage on other platforms are still to be confirmed. FreeSports will be the third sports channel to launch on Freeview since 2014. Attempts to establish a permanent sports channel on Freeview have thus far failed, with Motors TV (now known as Motorsport.tv) and Front Runner both withdrawing from Freeview after a few months on air. Setanta first announced it was planning a Freeview sports channel in 2003. From 2006, Setanta Sports operated a pay TV channel on UK digital terrestrial TV through the now defunct Top Up TV service, piggybacking on the signal carrying Freeview channels to households. Since Setanta Sports collapsed off air in the UK in 2009, the business has continued elsewhere, operated through a web of different limited companies registered in various countries, but backed by the same management team. Setanta Sports Ireland was taken over by eir Telecom at the end of 2015 and rebranded to eir Sports in 2016. Parts of the Setanta empire have continued in the UK under the Premier Sports brand since 2010. During 2003 and 2004 there had been plans to launch a sports channel on Freeview under the Freesports brand. That channel was originally due to specialise in coverage of minority sports There is one on channel 95 and one on channel 273 - Freeview/Youview etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webbo Posted 13 August 2017 Share Posted 13 August 2017 Australian Rugby League, The Polish premier league and the women's ATP tour if we're lucky.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notnow john Posted 13 August 2017 Share Posted 13 August 2017 35 minutes ago, Webbo said: Australian Rugby League, The Polish premier league and the women's ATP tour if we're lucky.. What no Kabadi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webbo Posted 13 August 2017 Share Posted 13 August 2017 6 minutes ago, notnow john said: What no Kabadi? I've heard they've secured the rights to the Albanian hide and seek championship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purpleronnie Posted 13 August 2017 Share Posted 13 August 2017 I love hide and seek. Anyone play buzz off? Where you count at a lamp post and then the rest hide and try and get to the lamp post before being seen? I'm ace at that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiltern Fox Posted 13 August 2017 Share Posted 13 August 2017 5 hours ago, purpleronnie said: I love hide and seek. Anyone play buzz off? Where you count at a lamp post and then the rest hide and try and get to the lamp post before being seen? I'm ace at that too. We used to call this '45 and in' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthStandUpperTier Posted 13 August 2017 Share Posted 13 August 2017 I love hide and seek. Anyone play buzz off? Where you count at a lamp post and then the rest hide and try and get to the lamp post before being seen? I'm ace at that too. We used to call this '45 and in' Used to be called 'Forty Forty In' when I were a lad.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_forty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purpleronnie Posted 13 August 2017 Share Posted 13 August 2017 Interesting, no idea why we called it buzz off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webbo Posted 13 August 2017 Share Posted 13 August 2017 49 minutes ago, SouthStandUpperTier said: Used to be called 'Forty Forty In' when I were a lad.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_forty We used to play that but I don't think we had a special name for it. It was just a version of hide and seek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Maul Posted 13 August 2017 Share Posted 13 August 2017 1 hour ago, SouthStandUpperTier said: Used to be called 'Forty Forty In' when I were a lad.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_forty It was 'Poddy' when I was a kid Had to shout 'Poddy 1-2-3' whilst touching the post before being caught to get through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthStandUpperTier Posted 13 August 2017 Share Posted 13 August 2017 In my youth I was pretty damn good at 'What's the time Mr. Wolf?' "What's the time Mr. Wolf?" "DINNER TIME!" "Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SystonFox Posted 14 August 2017 Share Posted 14 August 2017 Poddy, poddy 123 or manhunt were class Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Webbo Posted 15 August 2017 Share Posted 15 August 2017 I was in a bar in Florida in 2005 and they had a sports channel on. I shit you not, they were showing dominoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicsmac Posted 15 August 2017 Share Posted 15 August 2017 1 hour ago, Webbo said: I was in a bar in Florida in 2005 and they had a sports channel on. I shit you not, they were showing dominoes. Competitive StarCraft in Korea man. Seriously, proper spectator sport and everything, all on TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxy boxing Posted 15 August 2017 Share Posted 15 August 2017 1 hour ago, Webbo said: I was in a bar in Florida in 2005 and they had a sports channel on. I shit you not, they were showing dominoes. Do they have a Pizza at half time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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