Celtic TV Celtic TV It was a television channel until 2009 but it has since relaunched online, replacing Channel 67. Launched in 2004, Celtic TV was operated by the Irish company Setanta Sports, and was available on satellite and cable platforms in the UK and Ireland until the demise of the Pay TV operator's UK operation on 23 June 2009, resulting in all of the Setanta run channels including Celtic TV and its Old Firm counterpart, Rangers TV to be closed (The latter has since reopened) After Setanta Sports entered administration and ceased all broadcasting on its core channels and the channels
Canal+ (Spanish satellite broadcasting company) transmitted the same programming of Canal+ in simulcast, offering in HD all contents that were available to broadcast in this quality. Canal+ Deportes HD and Canal+ DCine HD were launched that day too. In September 2008, Prisa published on its newspaper El País that the business had received several offers to buy its pay-TV company, as a part of a corporate reorganization Prisa planned to make. Among the business interested in buying out Digital+, there were Telefónica, Vivendi, Telecinco, British Sky Broadcasting and ONO. On July 22, 2009 the group presented its new channel called Canal+ Liga, direct opponent to