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A JJB Sports store in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2010. This is now a CeX store. A JJB Sports Superstore in the Leeds Shopping Plaza, Leeds, West Yorkshire, in 2010. A JJB Sports store in Rushmere Retail Park, Craigavon, Northern Ireland, in 2009. This is now a B&M store. JJB Sports plc was a British sports retailer. On 24 September 2012 ...
Wigan Athletic had spent the previous 67 years playing at Springfield Park, and their first match at what was initially called the JJB Stadium was a friendly against Morecambe, just before the stadium's official opening.
JJB Sports signed a two-year deal to sponsor the Super League in 1998. The league became known as the JJB Super League. It was the first Super League season to have a playoff and Grand Final which was also named the JJB Super League Grand Final. JJB also sponsor Wigan Warriors and had the naming rights to their stadium.
Consequently, racing TV concentrates on UK horse racing. [41] 13 March – NASN buys the rights to show ten live Major League Baseball games a week. [42] The UK's first classic sports channel ESPN Classic launches. 17–18 June – Motors TV broadcasts the Le Mans 24 Hours race in its entirety. It also shows the 2007 race.
A British version of the channel called Golf Channel UK was operated by sporting goods retailer JJB Sports, and was available on the BSkyB satellite service. It broadcast many of the programs seen on the U.S. channel, but was unable to attract a viable audience as it offered few live golf tournaments; the channel shut down on December 31, 2007.
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JJB Sports TV Sports Shop Ltd. 2009-05-15 JJB Sports went bankrupt — — 248 267 UKTV Gardens: UKTV (BBC Worldwide/Virgin Media) 2009-05-19 Replaced with Really. [115] — — 920 481 Red Hot Just 18 RHF Productions Ltd (Northern and Shell) 2009-05-21 Replaced with Viewers Wives. — — 0215 — Zee Radio Zee Entertainment Enterprises 2009-06-01
These include two channels dedicated to football, a cricket channel and a golf channel. Other sports are moved to two new channels – Action and Arena – and a showcase channel called Sky Sports Main Event is launched which features simulcasts of the top events being shown on Sky Sports that day. [267] Also, Sky Sports News drops the HQ label.