Sport free on Astra 1/Hot Bird as an alternative to Sky/BT Sport
Bill Clinton
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Shame I'm not a fan of sport as this dish would really come in handy sometimes, noticed the darts thing they are showing from Wolverhampton Civic Hall being shown on Sport1 (Astra 1) complete with all the same Sky Sports graphics and even an occasional logo as seen at a mates house, it had German commentary of course but otherwise no need to pay Sky £50 a month for that one!, a BT Sport subscription could be avoided if you wanted to watch Welsh rally driving too also courtesy of Sport1.
Quite noticeable how other countries do seem to get free sports channels, RAI Sport 1 & 2, TRT Sport in Turkey, Sport1 & Eurosport Duetschland in Germany whilst in the UK not a single sport channel is free to air unless you count the BBC Sport screens that are usually provided for big events that more or less make a BBC Sport channel.
You also get free Middle East football on BeinSports, Al-Iraqia Sport, Dubai Sports etc, if people could get into Football Italia then why not that since it's free to air.
Quite noticeable how other countries do seem to get free sports channels, RAI Sport 1 & 2, TRT Sport in Turkey, Sport1 & Eurosport Duetschland in Germany whilst in the UK not a single sport channel is free to air unless you count the BBC Sport screens that are usually provided for big events that more or less make a BBC Sport channel.
You also get free Middle East football on BeinSports, Al-Iraqia Sport, Dubai Sports etc, if people could get into Football Italia then why not that since it's free to air.
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Generally these require medium sized dishes (over 90cm or so) but are easy catches for many of us with motorised installations.
Very few, however have English audio, but given that most Commentators are rubbish, that shouldn't make much difference!
Do check out the website if your friend has a motorised dish as those like Claw and I use it often to grab some FTA gems.
Not sure about this season but they are still listed on the FA's website as a rights owner.
the catch 22 is if you put them on open forums it can compromise them so you tend to pass them around behind the scenes.
Pro12 more sensible to watch that on regional BBC or S4C than some random Italian channel!
True, but they do show some matches that are not on BBC/S4C. Also I forgot to mention that they also show some Top14.
That would mean ignoring games not shown on S4C or BBC
Sport1 Germany does a lot of darts, pretty much everything that is on Sky Sports in the UK.
@The Great 208: As of today, there's no sign of FA Cup coverage on Sport 1 or Sport 1+. On the first weekend of January, there's hours of indoor football on the FTA channel and two French cup games on the pay channel.
not quite true last weekend the Treviso match v leinster was only on sky sports in the uk Ireland but fta on nuvolari. in fact if you want to see our teams when they are away in Italy nuvolari is the only option.
in October the leinster v munster game was on sky sports and nuvolari
In addition all of italys home November games were fta on dmax italia
and finally the French top 14 is now on nuvolari fta as against sky sports over here and this Saturday will have Toulon v clermont
Kabel eins will have Europa league match tomorrow night
RTL show the german national team euro games while friendlies are on ZDF
Rete 4 and Canale 5 (Italian) have/had champions league/Europa league