Ukraine’s Volia adds Setanta Sports channels to line-up

Ukrainian cable operator Volia has expanded its sports offering to consumers by adding Setanta Sports’ services to its line-up.

Volia will include Setanta Sports 1 and Setanta Sports+ in its content line-up. The channels offer some 5,000 live sports broadcasts a year, with sports content including English Premier League and German Bundesliga football, as well as coverage of Formula 1, boxing, tennis and basketball.

Volia will place the Setanta Sports channels on its cable network and on its online streaming service, Volia TV online.

Setanta Sports will be available to qualifying subscribers in HD.

The deal follows the addition of new services History Channel, the music channels UA Music, 4ever music, Black and the children’s channel Nick Toons to the Volia line-up.

“Sports content is very important for us and for our subscribers. We are proud that each of our subscribers can find a sports broadcast to their liking. We have been cooperating with the Setanta Sport channel for a long time , and now we are expanding this cooperation to their second channel,” said Volia.

“In general, we have almost the largest selection of sports channels in Ukraine, such as :   XSport, XSport+, Fightbox HD, FastT&Funbox HD, EX Extreme Sports Channel, Setanta Sports, Trophy HD, Rybalka-TV and First Automobile,  as well as broadcasts of the Champions League on Megogo’s service, but we want even more. That is why we made this decision and entered into an agreement with the Setanta Sport+ channel. Everything is better for our subscribers.”