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Nook29 · 17-03-2010, 21:10

Like it or not, football is the dominant sport in the UK. ESPN shows a lot of it because it's popular and available. They're adding Guinness Premiership rugby starting with the 2010/11 season, but aside from that there's no rugby available to them. The only cricket that was available to them was the IPL, but they quite rightly passed on that. All major tennis and golf tournaments are spoken for as well.

Yes, some smaller motor sport events are available, but ESPN are after the big motor sport events, which are currently spoken for. You may enjoy some of the smaller motor sport events, but a subscription based channel like ESPN will never find those events to be a viable option, which is why Eurosport, which even as a FTA channel pulls in fairly low ratings, snaps up these events.

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Nook29 Inactive Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Services: Virgin XL TV, V+, 10mb broadband, phone Posts: 540	Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Like it or not, football is the dominant sport in the UK. ESPN shows a lot of it because it's popular and available. They're adding Guinness Premiership rugby starting with the 2010/11 season, but aside from that there's no rugby available to them. The only cricket that was available to them was the IPL, but they quite rightly passed on that. All major tennis and golf tournaments are spoken for as well. Yes, some smaller motor sport events are available, but ESPN are after the big motor sport events, which are currently spoken for. You may enjoy some of the smaller motor sport events, but a subscription based channel like ESPN will never find those events to be a viable option, which is why Eurosport, which even as a FTA channel pulls in fairly low ratings, snaps up these events.