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
DEA (1990 TV series) DEA (1990 TV series) D.E.A. is a television program which was aired by Fox Broadcasting Company as part of its 1990-91 lineup. "D.E.A." was based on true stories of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Shot in "cinéma vérité" style, the program combined recreated scenes using actors with actual surveillance footage and film of actual newscasts covering the stories depicted. Fox apparently had considerable confidence in this concept. When the initial version garnered low ratings and was put on hiatus, before its return the program was retooled into "DEA—Special Task Force", which placed more emphasis on the agents' personal lives and showed