Badminton TV Coverage Finally Arrives on Freeview TV

[rickys]

At last, would you all believe that a new TV station is being launched soon in the UK devoted to minority sports such as badminton, swimming & cycling. Not only that, it's going to be on Freeview TV.

For those who don't know what that is, you can get a converter to plug into your normal aerial from around £60 now from Argos, Currys, Comet, etc.

For further information read the following articles and I suggest that we all e-mail the new TV station so that they know just how much interest there is. This may well be a one-time opportunity for us in the UK to get what we want finally.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/digitaltv/story/0,12184,985795,00.html

http://www.freeview.co.uk

[seanrachy]

This is what I posted ages - article is back on 27th June 2003.

Great idea - however this has now gone belly-up as they were taking too long so the company that owned the 'free' channel rights terminated their contract.

Sean

[rickys]

That's just typical!!!

Reading the article, it sounded too good to be true but hey, it would've been a fantastic channel.

I wonder if anyone knows if another company would be willing to follow through the idea?

How about the BAofE getting on the case before our sport becomes a media dodo?

[johng]

Ricky

Believe me, the BAofE is working non-stop to try to get the sport on TV.