Setanta Golf was a British television channel from

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dedicated to the sport of

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History

The channel was launched on 11 January 2007 on Sky Digital channel 429. In July 2007, the channel was added to

Virgin Media Virgin Media Limited is a British telecommunications company which provides telephone, television and internet services in the United Kingdom. Its headquarters are at Green Park in Reading, England. It is owned by Virgin Media O2, a 50:50 ...

channel 543, being available for free for XL pack subscribers or a premium network on other Virgin Media packages. In September 2007, the channel was added to Tiscali TV channel 557. The channel was also available in the Republic of Ireland on

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and

Sky Ireland Sky Ireland Limited is a subsidiary of Comcast-owned Sky UK and supplies television, internet and telephony services in Ireland. Its corporate headquarters are in Dublin which were opened by Taoiseach Enda Kenny on 18 January 2013. Sky Irelan ...

. The channel closed on 23 June 2009 with the rest of Setanta's networks, following the broadcaster's financial difficulties and collapse into

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in the United Kingdom.Setanta goes off air in Great Britain
Digital Spy, 23 June 2009

Content

From its launch, the United States-based

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was the mainstay of Setanta Golf's programming schedule. The channel also included coverage of the over 50s

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. Other programs included The Big Break and Highway 18 from

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, and Shell's Wonderful World of Golf. Many programming hours were also taken up with advertising features, mainly for

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licensed

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and

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products. PGA Tour coverage started with the first two tournaments from

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and included all the regular season tournaments except for the majors, for which the rights were held by

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and

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References

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