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
Persian Broadcasting Company Persian Broadcasting Company Persian Broadcasting Company also known as Tapesh (Persian: تپش; meaning heartbeat) is a Persian television company in the United States, founded by Masoud Jamali and Persian TV personality Alireza Amirghassemi, consisting of two channels, Tapesh and T2, a magazine, and a record company. Tapesh TV Network is currently the most watched Persian-language television network with more than 2.5 million viewers in North America and more than 65 million around the world. Programming consists of news and talk shows as well as soaps, music concerts, sitcoms, movies, variety shows, sports, entertainment, mini-series, drama, music videos, red carpet events