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 broadcasting contracts in Canada including game encores, air on NBA TV Canada. All three broadcasters air assorted non-Raptors games throughout the season (TSN promoted that it would air 148 regular-season games in total during the 2017-18 season); NBA TV Canada typically airs selected games and simulcasts of games from U.S. regional sports networks (often via the U.S. version of NBA TV). All remaining games are available through the NBA League Pass out-of-market sports package. TSN and NBA TV have the Canadian TV rights to broadcast the NBA Summer League. TSN owns the Canadian broadcast rights to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament through