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| Launched | 1999 |
| Owned by | Chellomedia [1] |
| Audience share | 0.0% (UK) (June 2007, [2]) |
| Website | www.extreme.com |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| Sky Digital | Channel 419 |
| PAS 10 | 12.682Ghz H |
| Digiturk | Channel 72 |
| Boom TV | Channel ? |
| Dolce | Channel 305 |
| Focus Sat | Channel - |
| Max TV | Channel - |
| TV Vlaanderen Digitaal | Channel 31 |
| Cable | |
| Virgin Media | Channel 527 |
| UPC Ireland | Channel 422 |
| UPC Romania | Channel 78 |
| RCS&RDS | Channel 49 |
| IPTV over ADSL | |
| Imagenio | Channel 102 |
| iNES | Channel |
Al Gosling founded the channel in 1998, after having success with Extreme Entertainment(then called Extreme International) which was set up in 1995. In April 1998 Al believed there was an opportunity to take the programming library that had been built and create the world's first TV channel dedicated to extreme sports. The goal was to launch a 24/7 Extreme Sports Channel, the TV channel broadcasting action sports worldwide, via satellite to an under-served audience. The Extreme Sports Channel is a Netherlands-based extreme sports television channel available across Europe and the Middle East. It launched in 1999 as a joint venture between cable company UPC and programme distribution company Extreme Group. Extreme Group's minority stake was bought out in October 2005 by Liberty Global inc, who had by then became owners of UPC, giving LGI full ownership of the channel. According to the Zonemedia (owned by Liberty Global) website, they now broadcast the channel. [3] The Extreme Sports Channel broadcasts to over 50 countries with 12 different language soundtracks, and is generally available on digital cable as well as on many digital satellite packages, including UPC Direct in the Czech Republic, Cyfrowy Polsat in Poland, Kabel Deutschland in Germany and Canal Digital in Norway and in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Levant territories broadcasting via satellite, exclusively from the Showtime Arabia pay-TV network. Content from the channel is also narrowcast on Cabvision installed in London Black cabs. The UK version of the channel was free-to-air from launch in 2001 until Summer 2006, when a deal with BSkyB meant that it became encrypted. Extreme Sports Channel's on air broadcast trannsmissions are handled by Chellomedia's playout and post production facility (the Digital Media centre) in Amsterdam.
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