British boxing tv channel

I know this has been done before but talk of it has quietened down in the past year or so. I think it is obvious that there is a certain semi niche/gap in the market for a boxing channel. Sky does well with boxing Setanta did well also and Primetime also has been able to offer a few fights.

I don't have Sky anymore but if i remember not too long ago there was a wrestling channel and a fight channelthey may still exist correct me if i am wrong. The fight channel was MMA based and consisted of two guys in a studio going over UK cage rage stuff and showing replay of older fights discussisng fighters etc. It was a pretty simple set up but was exposure non the less.

I dont know how much a television channel costs but at the bottom end of the scale it cant be THAT much Ocean finance has a tv channel......... Would it be possible that one day two of the big promoters Hatton and Matchroom or Maloney and Warren? Could join forces and create a boxng channel that would showcase their own fighters, bring more exposure for the sport in general, and maybe PPV or get the rights for some foreign boxing German and American on the cheap whilst also showing some small hall shows that don't get televised?

The channel would probably make little or no profit but certainly would be advantageous for boxing as a sport and for raising the profiles of fighters.

Anybody have any ideas on the figures that would be needed for this kind of operation?

 

I am not suggesting a single source of boxing viewing merely another outlet by which the sport and the fighters can gain exposure. as for copyright im sure warren has the rights to all his fights even if they were shown on Sky MUTV still show football on their channel but could have a game on Sky the same day so im sure the copyrightcould be got fairly easily

Surely it would be good for televising a few small hall shows VIP Promotions tried with VIP TV don't know how successful that has been but im sure that it would be good to have their shows on Sky for nothing if it got them exposure

 

There is a fair bit of material which can either be fairly cheaply acquired or easily made documentaries profiles old fights small hall ams etc etc would not cost much.

Only problem i can see is it would send the ESB tv thread into overload

 

When was this?! where did you hear that and if you think he lost loads i refer you to my calculations on the "how much did Frank warren help kevin Mitchell thread" as to how i believe he did financially on the show