Sport TV
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| Sport TV | |
| Type | Cable and Satellite television network |
|---|---|
| Branding | Sport TV |
| Country |  Portugal |
| Availability | Portugal, worldwide (via TV Cabo Portugal) |
| Owner | PT Conteúdos and Sportinveste |
| Launch date | September 16, 1998 |
| Website | www.sporttv.pt |
Sport TV, the first conditioned-access television channel produced in Portugal, opened on 16 September 1998 and is produced by PT Conteúdos, a company within Portugal Telecom. It is a sports channel and is available in every television distribution operators in Portugal by paying a fee.
Sport TV transmits most of the existing sports, mainly football (soccer), basketball, volleyball, rugby, and tennis. It also features debates, news and sports reports.
The most important Portuguese Liga games are broadcasted exclusively by Sport TV.
Seven years after the opening of the first channel, on 16 September 2005 the channel Sport TV2 opened. It will regularly broadcast alternative sports such as mountaineering, cycling and radical sports. The channel is available through TV Cabo Portugal and Cabovisão.
