Sports TV Uganda Limited Sports TV Uganda Limited Sports TV Uganda Limited was incorporated in October 2007, and has been licensed by the Uganda Broadcasting Council on February 29, 2008. Sports TV has commenced test broadcast on July 14, 2008. The station is broadcasting sports from around the world, and 24/7, free-to-air. It is privately owned by Bent and Nada Andersen. Sports TV is broadcasting sports programmes compiled by Setanta Africa network, a free-to-air broadcasters' network that is spreading across Africa, with broadcasters in over 20 African countries. Sports TV is the first sports-only television channel in Uganda. As the last entrant on the
WPXL-TV general entertainment format, along with numerous CBS programs preempted by WWL. Due to financial issues, the station ceased operations and went off the air on May 23, 1990. Flinn Broadcasting Corporation purchased the station's license three years later and returned channel 49 to the air on May 25, 1994, carrying programming from the Home Shopping Network. The station changed its call letters to WPXL-TV on August 31, 1998; that same day, the station became a charter affiliate of the family-oriented network Pax TV (now Ion Television). As part of the affiliation deal with Pax TV, Flinn Broadcasting entered into a