Sport TV
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| Type | Cable and Satellite television network |
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| Branding | Sport TV |
| Country | Portugal |
| Availability | Portugal |
| Owner | ZON Multimédia and Controlinveste |
| Launch date | September 16, 1998 |
| Website www.sporttv.pt |
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Sport TV is the brand name for a group of three Portuguese sports-oriented television channels. Sport TV is the dominant subscription television sports brand in Portugal. The first channel, then known as only Sport TV, was launched on 16 September 1998 and is produced by PT Multimédia and Controlinveste. It is available in almost all television distribution operators in Portugal as a premium subscription channel, except TVTEL.
Sport TV transmits most of the existing sports, mainly football (soccer), Formula 1, 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, Cabovisão, Clix SmarTV and Portugal Telecom's Meo. This was followed in June 2008 by Sport TV3.
Sport TV, will broadcast Euro 2008 in HD, through ZON TV Cabo.
[edit] Controversies
Sport TV is widely regarded as unpopular and anticompetitive, since it is the only group of channels in Portugal who has the rights to broadcast the BWINLIGA matches, as well as other international competitions. Actually, Portugal is the only country in Europe where the Formula 1 is broadcast on a premium channel, in this case, Sport TV.
On September 2007, Sport TV sent a cease-and-desist to a portuguese live tv streaming website [1], because the latter was providing links to streams of Champions League matches that only Sport TV had the rights to broadcast. This has caused great public concern of the monopoly abuse status of the Sport TV channels.
[edit] Football Leagues and Cups
Every year Sportv shows many live matchs from around the world of football.
- Portuguese Liga
- Portuguese Cup
- Carlsberg Cup
- Liga de Honra
- Premier League
- FA Cup
- Football League Cup
- FA Community Shield
- La Liga
- Copa del Rey
- Supercopa de España
- Serie A
- Coppa Italia
- Ligue 1
- Coupe de France
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
- FIFA Club World Cup
- Copa Libertadores
- Copa Sudamericana
- UEFA Champions League
- UEFA Cup
- UEFA Intertoto Cup
- UEFA European Football Championship
- Copa América
- FIFA World Cup
[edit] External links
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