Broadcasting of sports events events from the 1980s, mainly horse races and so-called minority sports. In the early 1990s this arrangement was shaken up by the arrival of pay-TV in the form of BSkyB. Their dedicated sports channels have since become the only place for some major sports to be seen. Starting in 2006 the Irish company Setanta Sports emerged as a challenger to Sky Sports' dominance of the British pay-TV sports market; however, Setanta's UK channel went into bankruptcy administration and off the air in 2009. Between 2009 and 2013 ESPN made an attempt to challenge Sky Sports before its British operations were
Sports broadcasting contracts in the Philippines playoffs games, the entire NBA Conference Finals and the NBA Finals. It function is the same as the WNBA. Sports5, the sports arm of TV5 currently has rights to the Philippine Basketball Association, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, WWE, National Football League and FIBA-related events, which includes the FIBA Basketball World Cup and its qualifying games. Foreign sports other than the NBA are aired, but on cable channels, notably Solar, the Fox Sports channels (Fox Sports, Fox Sports 2 and Fox Sports 3) and various sports channels like BeIN Sports and Setenta Sports. Sports Illustrated TV (formerly All Sports Network) also