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Concert-based mostly songs specials are once in a while developed for the channel, featuring important recording artists doing in entrance of a dwell viewers. Through 1977, HBO carried other sporting activities originating on the Sterling Manhattan/Manhattan Cable athletics channel, including World Hockey Association normal season and playoff games Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) tournaments (such as the Men's Ice Hockey Tournament and the ECAC Holiday Festival basketball event) World TeamTennis international substantial school basketball invitationals the National Horse Show harness racing gatherings from Yonkers Raceway equestrian, roller derby and ice skating activities the World Professional Karate Championships the Millrose Games monitor and area invitational the Westchester Kennel Club Dog Show and World Wide Wrestling Federation matches. Throughout its tenure on the channel, Wimbledon protection on HBO, which was the first to provide weekday tennis coverage on network tv, consisted of singles and doubles gatherings from the early rounds of the tournament NBC (which had the above-the-air broadcast rights to Wimbledon considering that 1969) preserved rights to the quarterfinal, semi-final and final rounds as properly as weekend early-round matches. Through a partnership with Vice Media, the network ran a month to month docuseries, Vice, that includes in-depth experiences from host/creator/Vice journal co-founder Shane Smith and a staff of correspondents investigating political and cultural topics and employing an immersionist filmmaking design.