UK vs. SA on TV & Web

UK Polocrosse will make its debut on Sky Sports at the end of October in a series of four programs of the recent UK versus South Africa test match series. The test match series took place at Ashfields polocrosse club in Essex on the 18th and 19th of July and the UKPA arranged for the Country Channel to come and film it and screen it through their own TV channel.

After filming the Country Channel showed some of the footage to Sky Sports and Sky promptly said that they would also like to show the programs. The result is that the four half an hour programs (one for each test match) will be shown a number of times on Sky Sports at the end of October.

I think you will all agree with me that this is a brilliant thing to happen for the sport. Half the battle of growing polocrosse is that a lot of people don’t know it exists so to have it on Sky should hopefully make a lot more people aware of it and interested in it.

We are preparing to kick off a big off season sport development program and hope that polocrosse being on Sky, combined with the recent polocrosse demonstrations at Blenheim Horse trials, are the perfect launching pad to grow the sport.

The Country Channel themselves will also show the programs, through their web based TV channel, www.countrychannel.tv, and through their listing on My Channel (Channel number 171) after Sky have run the program on Sky Sports 2, Sky Sports 3 and Sky Sports Xtra.

The below running schedule shows the planned running times for the programs on Sky Sports 2, Sky Sports 3 and Sky Sports Xtra (please be aware that Sky use a 28 hour clock to plan their programming so 28:30 is 04:30 am). Below them is the running times for My Channel (which is the freeview channel that the Country Channel run progarmmes through). I would like to thank Country Channel for their help throughout this process, I hope we can work with them more going forwards.

Iain Heaton, UKPA Sport Development Officer
Sportsdevelopment@ukpolocrosse.co.uk