Remembering Screensport - The Final Days
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- 25 years ago today (on the date of upload, anyway)...
Looking back at the final days of Screensport, the UK's first sports channel - including a little snooker coverage, a mid-week closedown, highlights from the last evening on air and moments from the first morning following the Eurosport merger (Monday March 1st 1993) including trailers and continuity.
Thanks for this, brought back great memories when football was free and didn't cost a fortune to watch on TV
Agreed.
Oh my days! 😲 I've had a Sky satellite dish since 1990 and remember Screensport. Memories.
This was a sad day. It was the end of free tv in Europe. Later in 1993, Sky got subscribed too for everyone except for in UK and Ireland.
This was due to increasing pressure on Sky from Hollywood studios and programme distributors to scramble their output, being none too happy at their programmes being available unrestricted to viewers across Europe on the Astra Satellites.
Also by scrambling their channels, Sky were able to purchase and screen better programming and movies.
The March 1993 Eurosport/Screensport merged channel launched with a bang in the UK thanks to Nigel Mansell switching to Indycar racing and the Indycar races which were Sunday afternoon in the US/Sunday Evening Primetime in the UK had Eurosport in the UK get big ratings on Sunday Nights
RIP Screensport, i will miss you.
I think the Eurosport/Screensport merge notice would’ve been played until 6th of March of 1993, lefting Screensport fans with a Eurosport channel until RTL 2 (later RTL II, now RTL Zwei) launched. Therefore, Eurosport might be a “rival” to Sky Sports, which is available to Astra/Sky viewers.
The logo that was first used by RTL II for its launch on 6 March 1993 would end up getting withdrawn after only three years. This was because of a trademark dispute with an almost identical logo that was adopted by Cedar Rapids television station KGAN (a CBS affiliate on channel 2) in September of that year. The dispute was resolved in late 1995 with Novocom required to create a new graphics package for RTL II; KGAN was allowed to keep its logo in exchange. During the dispute KGAN was owned by Guy Gannett Communications, which itself would be acquired by Sinclair in 1998.
Screensport was better than Eurosport. Transponder 1 of the Astra 1A Satellite was taken by RTL-2.
25 years !! Doesn't seem possible.
How time has flown. I remember the old Screen Sport in 1985. They even had their own Final Score type Saturday Afternoon programme, IIRC with Patrick Stenson, (Still got the video clips of those days) I won £1,000 in a Screen Sport Bingo Game. The game card came with your monthly Rediffusion Programme Guide, and you crossed off the numbers as they appeared in between the programmes. I bought a car with the winnings. £1k was a lot of dosh back then. Cheers.
@@siddn they showed the Freight Rover Trophy area finals and the final at Wembley for the first time in 1985. Wigan beat Brentford 3-1. Then they sponsored the Football league Super cup in 1985/86. Which was introduced as a consolation competition for the clubs that would have played in Europe that season, but for the ban on English clubs following the Heysel disaster.
Instead of Screensport we got Eurosport Nordic here in Scandinavia with commentators from the Nordic countries. Initial there were very programs with nordic commentators. And signal came from the Thor-satellite in 1 degrees west I think
When Sky was still free to air on Astra 19.2°E
Golf European and US switched to SKY but the UK tournaments were added under a new deal that was signed in 1993
Loved screensport for the Spanish league coverage
Rip
Masswe tv4
1349-2023
Murdoch's money has ruined sport, pay per this pay per that..he can't take it with him
30 years ago, tomorrow.
from my country, Screensport became RTL Zwei
10:45 starts the credits
This year should have been 25 years
13:15 RIP Screensport 1985-1993
Screensport was replaced on 6 March 1993 by RTL II.
Is that Patrick Allen as the announcer?
Didn’t Screensport go after the premier league rights with itv? Presume they would have just got highlights with itv showing live games? Probably would have survived had it been successful? Having said that sky itself would have gone bankrupt by the mid 90’s probably?
1. I think that screensport did not go for the prem rights. Only bbc, itv and sky did.
2. Also itv would have probably closed it.
3. They was losing viewers so now.
4. No. Sky had about 20 channels. And this channel was owned by videotron/WHsmith.
ScreenSport did go for the Premier league broadcast rights, along with ITV.
In the background i see the screensport logo
The on screen branding was necessary because if you had twenty odd television channels from satellite going out over a cable system in the UK or continental Europe, it's important to know what channel you are watching and having the on-screen logo helps with that.
was free to air
I think it was.
The German version is still FTA on 19.2E, albeit not in HD
This makes me depressed.
13:25 Eurosport Is Back
Shut up dude
Eurosport is still on the airwaves idiots
You idiot. This ended free tv
Now in 2023 Eurosport is going away from the UK in the summer of to this year...
Fusion TV Sport - Eurosport. Comment se foutre de la gueule du téléspectateur en passant de 2 chaines gratuites à une chaîne payante. Bravo TF1 et Canal+
Au vu du prix des droits sportifs, avoir 2 chaînes gratuites de sport aurait été l'assurance que ces 2 chaînes finissent par se casser la gueule.
Omg the list is so long
Ysa
5:29
Okay -_-
this is why 1993 was the worst year of my dad's life
4:47 why is she naked?
Typical crazy sports fanatic
@@smophie6260 born star
What happened to Screensport
They merged with Eurosport
Thank you
Due to low ratings. They merged with Eurosport to make Eurosport/The European Sports Network.
@@ItsABeautifulDay. Screenshot had plenty of quality too. It's too bad, some folks prefer quantity over quality every time.
I always watched sky sports more than Eurotrashsport
That's not the burn you think it is