FreeSportsUK
 

New to the forum, driven here by increasing frustration at poor channel choice by Virgin Media. Being an avid motorsport and ice hockey fan the content of new free to air channel FreeSportsUK is very attractive to me, it's available on all major platforms except for..guess who ?

Already angry at being continually fobbed off about lack of Premier Sports in HD and now this.

Re: FreeSportsUK
 

The service isn't working on Freesat channel 252 either at the moment so its just Freeview HD & Sky unless you do a manual tune.

Either there is a technical problem stopping the launch on VM or they are "testing the water" to see how much interest there is in the channel before they add it.

Perhaps they are remembering all the fury that happened when BT Sports was imposed on all the TV XL customers a few years ago. No doubt there will be some out there who would say "not another sports channel I've got to pay for" if they do add it.

Re: FreeSportsUK
 

It's FTA so you won't have to pay for it.

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Knowing VM though if they get it they'll bung it in the XL pack.

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What does FTA mean? Free To Air, not necessarily Free To Cable.

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Its been all over the net that VM are putting prices up in November. Would not shock me if they said prices are going up but look here us a new channel trying to make out its compensation.

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FreeSports tweeted approx 25 mins ago that not on Sky EPG yet but provided tuning info for those who wanted to add manually.

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Freesports have been Tweeting Virgin customers should ask their cable provider to add the channel if they are interested in watching it. This suggests there has been no deal done to have Freesports on the Virgin Media platform

Re: FreeSportsUK
 

Freesports not on sky EPG and not on freeview EPG either.:mad:

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If they think that is good compensation then they are in a world of absolute delusion..

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The point is, VM have to pay for it. Costs have to be passed on to subscribers. It's a tricky one, because Full House subscribers are having to pay for BT Sport even if they do not watch sport. A further price rise on account of yet another sports channel would not be welcomed by those subscribers.

Perhaps the answer might be for VM to add the TV Player to its range of apps. This would also put paid to those who argue that other Freeview channels should be added to the VM platform.

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There are plans to launch on VM but it will not be available at launch.


http://www.a516digital.com/2017/08/f...reesports.html

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Just taken a look at this channel on Freeview. Not a particularly good picture on there. They could do with providing an HD version of Freesports.

If you have a biggish screen, this is not a good watch.

Re: FreeSportsUK
 

It is on Sky and Freeview EPGs here.

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Yes, but not yet on youview, strangely.

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You have to be in range of a transmitter carrying Freeview MUX 8:
http://www.a516digital.com/p/com7-and-com8.html

It went live on the Sky EPG at 2pm

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Now on Sky EPG but still not on freeview EPG for me

Also have to agree - NRL currently on - picture not as good as Prem Spts on Virgin which isn't even HD

Re: FreeSportsUK
 

Here's a list of what Freesports will be showing.... with more content to be confirmed soon.

Football

Portuguese Primeira Liga- 2 games a week
Belgian Pro League – 3 games a week
Spanish La Liga 2 - 1 game a week
Superliga Argentina - 2 games a week
Barca TV - full game from La Liga and Champions League
Dortmund TV - 1 hour weekly game highlights
Bayern TV - full game from the Bundesliga and Champions League
AC Milan TV full game from Serie A and Europa League


Motorsport

Australian V8 Supercars live
NASCAR Cup Highlights
NASCAR Xfinity series live
NASCAR Truck series live
Swedish Speedway live in 2018
Monster Jam highlights
Arena Cross highlights
Formula Drift highlights
FIA World Rallycross Championships highlights
On the Limit Sport magazine show


Ice Hockey

National Hockey League – 3 games a week that can’t go live on Premier
International Ice Hockey Federation – 20 live games from Championships and 5 GB games from Div1A
Champions Hockey League – 20 live games
Swedish Hockey League – 2 live games a week
Spengler Cup live semi's and final


Rugby League

50% of NRL live until the end of 2017
Select games from the Rugby League World Cup live
Championship Rugby League – Toronto matches in England live
NRL Full-Time
The NRL Footy Show
Rugby League Back Chat


Other Sports

ATP 250 – 25 events mostly live
New York, Berlin and Melbourne Marathons
IAAF Athletix
Spanish Basketball League and Copa Del Rey final stages
FEI Nations Cup
One Championship
World Series of Fighting
FIS Magazine show
Transworld Sport
Drone Champions League
Weight Lifting World Championships
Pro Bull Riding
Golfing World
Crankworx World Tour

It's pretty impressive for a free to air channel. Better content than Eurosport.

Re: FreeSportsUK
 

Hopefully it will launch on Virgin on September 11th at the same time as Freesat.

Re: FreeSportsUK
 

All of the NRL games this round are being shown - 3 are live the other 5 are being shown as live later in the day.

Interestingly Freesports has Netherlands v England U-21 football on tomorrow afternoon - this is not listed as on Prem Spts

Re: FreeSportsUK
 

I'll have a bit of that! :)

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Only 70% of the country gets coms 8 on freeview, if you get More 4 HD you will be able to get freesport. Personally I cannot get it.:(