Thread: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. I
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Old 17-03-2010, 18:00   #1783
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010)
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Originally Posted by joff81 View Post
im sorry to say but there is more to sports than football and to be honest football is all that ESPN is bothered about.
there is a serious lack of motorsports on ESPN and they missed out on both NASCAR (live and highlights) and Indycar (highlights), whats even worse is they missed out on NASCAR to a public broadcast channel.
sure ESPN get DTM but its only due to the fact it is a left over off the Setanta deal. i think its pretty poor that ESPN have big presence in US and they cant even get the bigger Motor racing series from the US on air here in UK.

there is too much focus on football on ESPN that is not relevent here in the UK and there is fans of sports that they are already showing in the US but dont show here in the UK.

you say whch out Sky Sports - ESPN are coming !!

i say Sky Sports have nothing to worry about as all the stuff shown on ESPN is very minority orientated apart from the football and SKY have a wide range of sports that i will watch.
even eurosport has WTCC, SKB, Moto GP, F3 series that are all coming in HD soon.

Sky have the rights to Nascar in the US and did so before ESPN joined the UK market - So they were unable to offer this to us UK fans.

ESPN own the NASCAR rights in US and also plan to release NASCAR via HD. - if you watch NASCAR on Sky sports you will see that its covered by ESPN
and in some cases FOX and sometimes by ABC which comes under the same ownership as ESPN.

Remember this is ESPN first year.
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