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 Unlimited 2015, it ceased broadcasting as Sports Unlimited. It was revealed prior to the said date that it will be reformatted on February 12, 2015 and will be renamed as Sports U and now air every Thursdays after Bandila at the Primetime block (formerly aired at "Kapamilya Gold" block, with regional TV stations aired the following morning). Both ANC & S+A (and later its early broadcast on DZMM TeleRadyo) retained their simulcast after the said reformat. Sports Unlimited is a 45-minute adventure, sports, travel and fitness television show was aired Saturdays on ABS-CBN. It is the first sports show of its