Coverage
The Extreme Sports Channel broadcasts to over 60 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, Cyfra+ and 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 OSN 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 transmissions are handled by Chellomedia's playout and post production facility (the Digital Media centre) in Amsterdam.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) announced a pay-per-view deal with the Extreme Sports Channel in the United Kingdom on 25 February 2010. The first pay-per-view to be broadcast as part of the deal was Destination X 2010.
On 28 September 2011 the channel began broadcasting in widescreen (16:9) format.
On 1 February 2012 the channel began broadcasting in Italy, only in the HD version.
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