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Boxing Day and New Year's Day football fixtures are usually the only
sporting priorities over the Jesus period. But with the help of lifebyte,
you won't have to rely so much on finding last season's Match of the Day's
on video.
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With the digital, satellite and terrestrial competition reaching a frenzy
over any holiday period, Christmas is most definitely the big one for all
concerned.
The problem is that, traditionally, sports broadcasters tend to be timid
when it comes to challenging the 'family' monopoly of the Christmas
schedule. But with three channels of excellent Sky Sports' coverage,
along with new kids ondigital and satellite sport stalwarts Eurosport to access, the Santa
session might not be so daunting for ardent sports fans.
On the terrestrial front, ITV
can't offer too much beyond Nationwide
reviews and Worthington Cup ties. The BBC's annual hand
shandy for the sporting world, that ironically titled
'personality' award, has been and gone, so the corporations
sport content over Crimbo is reduced to MOTD and
Olympic reviews and reverie. So satellite and digital
are the saviours, as far as the sportingly inclined
are concerned. Extreme sports are consistently catered
for on Sky Sports, and their Christmas schedule
features such breaks from the UK sporting norm as
the Powerman Triathlon, kickboxing, aquabiking and
extreme sailing. Eurosport
provide more obscure sporting spectacles for those
hoping to find alternatives to the predictable festive
telly schedule. The only depressing feature is that
you'll still have to endure turkey and stuffing
due to Sky's reliance upon repeats and 'classic'
World Cup football, boxing and walking will prevent
you from stomaching that shit for more than two
hours a time.
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