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
Broadcasting Act 1990 has a tendency to polarise opinion very strongly. One initially less-obvious effect of the Act was that technical standards ceased to be monitored & enforced by the regulatory body along with the programme content. Broadcasting Act 1990 The Broadcasting Act 1990 is a law of the British parliament, initiated in part due to a 1989 European Council Directive (89/552), also known as the Television Without Frontiers directive. The aim of the Act was to liberalise and deregulate the British broadcasting industry by promoting competition; ITV, in particular, had earlier been described by Margaret Thatcher as "the last bastion of restrictive