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Screensport was a pan-European sports television channel that broadcast from 1984 to 1993 before merging with Eurosport. [1]

49 relations: American Broadcasting Company, Astra 1A, Aubrey Singer, BBC, BBC Radio Leicester, Broadcast (magazine), Cheshire, Competition law, Dutch language, EFL Trophy, England, English Football League, English language, ESPN, ESPN Inc., Eurosport, Football League Super Cup, French language, German language, Golf, Heysel Stadium disaster, Ice hockey, ITV Sport, Knutsford, Ladbrokes Coral, Lifestyle (UK TV channel), London, NASCAR, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, Netherlands, Premier League, RCA, RTL II, Skiing, Sky One, Sky Sports, Sky Television plc, Speedway in the United Kingdom, Stock car racing, Sweden, Tennis, Thames Television, The Guardian, Treaty of Rome, Variety (magazine), Wembley Stadium, WHSmith, Yachting.

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Astra 1A

Astra 1A was the first satellite launched and operated by SES (Société Européenne des Satellites), launched in December 1988.

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Aubrey Singer

Aubrey Edward Singer CBE (21 January 1927 – 26 May 2007) was a British broadcasting executive who spent most of his career at the BBC.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Radio Leicester

BBC Radio Leicester is the BBC Local Radio service for the English counties of Leicestershire and Rutland.

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Broadcast (magazine)

Broadcast is a weekly magazine for the United Kingdom television and radio industry.

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Cheshire

Cheshire (archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west.

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Competition law

Competition law is a law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies.

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Dutch language

The Dutch language is a West Germanic language, spoken by around 23 million people as a first language (including the population of the Netherlands where it is the official language, and about sixty percent of Belgium where it is one of the three official languages) and by another 5 million as a second language.

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EFL Trophy

The EFL Trophy (English Football League Trophy) is an annual English association football knockout competition open to the 48 clubs in EFL League One and EFL League Two, the third and fourth tiers of the English football league system and, since the 2016–17 season, 16 under-21 sides from Premier League and EFL Championship clubs.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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English Football League

The English Football League (EFL) is a league competition featuring professional football clubs from England and Wales.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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ESPN

ESPN (originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is a U.S.-based global cable and satellite sports television channel owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture owned by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%).

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ESPN Inc.

ESPN Inc. is an American sports media conglomerate based in Bristol, Connecticut.

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Eurosport

Eurosport is a pan-European television sports network, owned and operated by Discovery, Inc. Discovery took a 20% minority interest share in December 2012, and became the majority shareholder in the Eurosport venture with TF1 in January 2014, taking a 51% share of the company.

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Football League Super Cup

The Football League Super Cup (known for sponsorship reasons as the ScreenSport Super Cup) was a one-off football club competition held in England in the 1985–86 season.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

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Golf

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.

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Heysel Stadium disaster

The Heysel Stadium disaster (Heizeldrama; Drame du Heysel) occurred on 29 May 1985 when mostly Juventus fans escaping from a breach by Liverpool fans were pressed against a collapsing wall in the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium, before the start of the 1985 European Cup Final between the Italian and English clubs.

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Ice hockey

Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent's net to score points.

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ITV Sport

ITV Sport is a sport producer for ITV.

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Knutsford

Knutsford is a town in Cheshire, England, south-west of Manchester and north-west of Macclesfield.

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Ladbrokes Coral

Ladbrokes Coral Group plc is a British-based betting and gambling company.

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Lifestyle (UK TV channel)

Lifestyle was a British daytime television channel dedicated to women and family, and was broadcast on cable and on transporter 5 of the Astra satellite from 1989.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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NASCAR

National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock-car racing.

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National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a men's professional basketball league in North America; composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).

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National Hockey League

The National Hockey League (NHL; Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America, currently comprising 31 teams: 24 in the United States and 7 in Canada.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Premier League

The Premier League is the top level of the English football league system.

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RCA

The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded as the Radio Corporation of America in 1919.

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RTL II

RTL II is a commercial, privately owned, general-interest German television channel.

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Skiing

Skiing can be a means of transport, a recreational activity or a competitive winter sport in which the participant uses skis to glide on snow.

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Sky One

Sky One is a British general entertainment channel operated and owned by Sky plc, available in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Sky Sports

Sky Sports is a group of sports television channels operated by the satellite pay-TV company Sky plc.

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Sky Television plc

Sky Television plc was a public limited company which operated a nine-channel satellite television service, launched by Rupert Murdoch's News International on 5 February 1989.

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Speedway in the United Kingdom

The sport of Speedway in the United Kingdom has changed little since the first meetings in the 1920s.

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Stock car racing

Stock car racing is a form of automobile racing found mainly and most prominently in the United States and Canada, with Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain and Brazil also having forms of stock car auto racing.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Tennis

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).

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Thames Television

Thames Television was a franchise holder for a region of the British ITV television network serving London and surrounding area on weekdays from 30 July 1968 until the night of 31 December 1992.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Treaty of Rome

The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU; also referred to as the Treaty of Rome) is one of two treaties forming the constitutional basis of the European Union (EU), the other being the Treaty on European Union (TEU; also referred to as the Treaty of Maastricht).

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Wembley Stadium

Wembley Stadium is a football stadium in Wembley, London, England, which opened in 2007, on the site of the original Wembley Stadium, which was demolished from 2002–2003.

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WHSmith

WHSmith PLC (also known as WHS or colloquially as Smith's, and formerly W. H. Smith & Son) is a British retailer, headquartered in Swindon, Wiltshire, which operates a chain of high street, railway station, airport, port, hospital and motorway service station shops selling books, stationery, magazines, newspapers, entertainment products and confectionary.

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Yachting

Yachting refers to the use of recreational boats and ships called yachts for sporting purposes.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screensport

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