Extreme Sports Channel
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| Extreme Sports Channel | |
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| Launched | 1999 |
| Owned by | Liberty Global inc |
| Audience share | 0.9% weekly reach (UK) (w/e 09/04/06, Source:[1]) |
| Website | extreme.com |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| Sky Digital | Channel 419 |
| PAS 10 | 12.682Ghz H |
| Cable | |
| NTL:Telewest | Channel 527 |
| NTL Ireland | Channel 422 |
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.
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..
The UK version of the channel was free-to-air from launch in 2001 until Summer 2006, when a deal with Sky in the UK meant that it became encrypted.
