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Extreme Sports Channel
Launched1999
Owned byChellomedia [1]
Audience share0.0% (UK)
(June 2007, [2])
Websitewww.extreme.com
Availability
Satellite
Sky DigitalChannel 419
PAS 1012.682Ghz H
DigiturkChannel 72
Boom TVChannel ?
DolceChannel 305
Focus SatChannel -
Max TVChannel -
Cable
Virgin MediaChannel 527
UPC IrelandChannel 422
RCS&RDSChannel 49


Al Gosling founded the channel in 1998, after having success with Extreme Entertainment(then called Extreme International) which was set up in 1995. In April 1998 Al believed there was an opportunity to take the programming library that had been built and create the world's first TV channel dedicated to extreme sports. The goal was to launch a 24/7 Extreme Sports Channel, the TV channel broadcasting action sports worldwide, via satellite to an under-served audience.

The Extreme Sports Channel is a Netherlands-based extreme sports television channel available across Europe and the Middle East. It launched in 1999 as a joint venture between cable company UPC and programme distribution company Extreme Group. Extreme Group's minority stake was bought out in October 2005 by Liberty Global inc, who had by then became owners of UPC, giving LGI full ownership of the channel. According to the Zonemedia (owned by Liberty Global) website, they now broadcast the channel. [3]

The Extreme Sports Channel broadcasts to over 50 countries with 12 different language soundtracks, and is generally available on digital cable as well as on many digital satellite packages, including UPC Direct in the Czech Republic, Cyfrowy Polsat in Poland, Kabel Deutschland in Germany and Canal Digital in Norway and in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Levant territories broadcasting via satellite, exclusively from the Showtime Arabia pay-TV network.

Content from the channel is also narrowcast on Cabvision installed in London Black cabs.

The UK version of the channel was free-to-air from launch in 2001 until Summer 2006, when a deal with BSkyB meant that it became encrypted.

Extreme Sports Channel's on air broadcast trannsmissions are handled by Chellomedia's playout and post production facility (the Digital Media centre) in Amsterdam.

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Zonemedia
Extreme sport (also called action sport and adventure sport) is a media term for certain activities perceived as having a high level of inherent danger or difficulty and often involving speed, height, a high level of physical exertion, and highly specialized gear or
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Sports channels are television specialty channels (usually available exclusively through cable and satellite) broadcast sporting events, usually live, and when not broadcasting events, sports news and other related programming.
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Chellomedia, the European content division of Liberty Global is a leading international media company & distributor of channels, content and video services. The division’s operating companies and business units, currently own and operate 30 branded TV channels and run a
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Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcasting's digital satellite television service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28.2°E (Astra 2A/2B/2D) and Eutelsat's Eurobird 1 satellite at 28.5°E.
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Digiturk

Type Satellite network (movies, sports, original programming)
Country Turkey
Availability    National
Owner Çukurova Holding
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Boom Extrasatelit

Private
Founded 2005
Headquarters Bucharest, Romania

Industry Telecommunication
Products Direct broadcast satellite
Website www.boomtv.
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Dolce

Private
Founded 2006
Headquarters Bucharest, Romania

Industry Telecommunication
Products Direct broadcast satellite
Parent Romtelecom
Website www.dolce.
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Focus Sat

Private
Founded 2005
Headquarters Bucharest, Romania

Industry Telecommunication
Products Direct broadcast satellite
Parent UPC
Website www.focussat.
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Max TV

Private
Founded 2005
Headquarters Bucharest, Romania

Industry Telecommunication
Products Direct broadcast satellite
Parent Digital Cable System
Website www.maxtv.
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Virgin Media Incorporated

Public: (NASDAQ:  VMED )
Founded NTL: 1992; Telewest: 1984
Headquarters Corporate: New York City, United States
Operational: Hook, England, UK

Key people James Mooney, Chairman
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UPC Ireland N.V.


Dutch public company
Founded 12 December 2005
Headquarters Dublin, Ireland

Area served Ireland
Industry Communications
Products Cable television, communications
Parent Liberty Global Europe
Subsidiaries NTL Ireland
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RCS&RDS SA

Public
Founded 1993
Headquarters Bucharest, Romania

Industry Telecommunications
Products Telephone, Internet, Wireless, Television
Revenue $300,000 million (2006)
Employees 5,500 (2007)
Website www.rcs-rds.
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Motto
"Je maintiendrai"   (French)
"Ik zal handhaven"   (Dutch)
"I shall stand fast"1
Anthem
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Extreme sport (also called action sport and adventure sport) is a media term for certain activities perceived as having a high level of inherent danger or difficulty and often involving speed, height, a high level of physical exertion, and highly specialized gear or
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The term television channel generally refers to either a television station or its cable/satellite counterpart (both outlined below). Sometimes, it is confused with the term television network, which (when properly used) describes a group of geographically-distributed television
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Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. Physically and geologically, Europe is the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, west of Asia. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea,
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Middle East is a historical and political region of Africa-Eurasia with no clear boundaries. The term "Middle East" was popularized around 1900 in Britain, and has been criticized for its loose definition.
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Chello Zone (formerly Zone Vision, Zone Media) is a London, United Kingdom-based television company, founded in 1991 by Chris Wronski. It is 90% owned by Chellomedia (Liberty Global).
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Motto
"Pravda vítězí"   (Czech)
"Truth prevails"
Anthem
Kde domov můj
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Motto
none1
Anthem
Mazurek Dąbrowskiego   (Polish)
Dąbrowski's Mazurek
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Kabel Deutschland is the largest cable company in Germany.

Company

Kabel Deutschland operates in 13 of the 16 states (i.e. all but Baden-Württemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse). In 2006, of the 15.4 households passed by their cable the company served 9.
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Anthem
"Das Lied der Deutschen" (third stanza)
also called "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"
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Canal Digital is a Scandinavian television distributor that was founded in March 1997 as a joint venture between the French pay-TV company Canal+ and the Norwegian state-telecommunications operator Telenor. Since 2001, Canal Digital is fully owned by Telenor.
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Motto
Royal: Alt for Norge ("Everything for Norway")
1814 Eidsvoll oath: Enige og tro til Dovre faller
("United and faithful until the mountains of Dovre crumble")

Anthem
Ja, vi elsker

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Middle East is a historical and political region of Africa-Eurasia with no clear boundaries. The term "Middle East" was popularized around 1900 in Britain, and has been criticized for its loose definition.
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North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent, separated by the Sahara from Sub-Saharan Africa. Geopolitically, the UN definition of Northern Africa includes the following seven territories:

  • Algeria
  • Egypt
  • Libya

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The Levant (IPA: /lə'vænt/) is an imprecise geographical term historically referring to a large area in the Middle East south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and by the northern
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Showtime

Joint Venture between
KIPCO (79% stake) and
CBS Corporation (21% stake)
Founded 1996
Headquarters Dubai Media City, Dubai,  United Arab Emirates

Industry Telecommunication
Products Direct broadcast satellite
Website www.ShowtimeArabia.
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A narrowcast is the transmission of data to a specific list of recipients. Cable television is an example of narrowcasting since the cable TV signals are sent only to homes that have subscribed to the cable service.
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Cabvision is a narrowcast private recorded television service provided in London taxicabs.

Technology and content

Supported by a number of media and technology companies including IBM, Trident Microsystems and Liquid Digital, Cabvision is predominantly an advertising
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