Viasat Sport

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Viasat Sport is the common brand of several sports channels targeting the Nordic countries and Baltic countries owned by Modern Times Group. Viasat Sport is also the name of one tv-channel in the Baltics.

Its main competitors are Canal+ and Eurosport.


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Viasat Sport was launched as a pan-Nordic channel in 1999. Some years later, a dedicated Danish channel, Viasat Sport Denmark, lauched and replaced the pan-Nordic version in Denmark.

On February 1, 2004 Viasat launched two new sport channels: Viasat Sport 2 and Viasat Sport 3. The two existing channels were re-branded as Viasat Sport 1.

A "news channel" called Viasat Sport 24 was launched in April 2005. In the end of 2005, Viasat SportN was launched as a joint venture with public broadcaster NRK, replacing the pan-Nordic Viasat Sport 1 in Norway.

Viasat Sport 1 Denmark was replaced by TV 2 Sport in April 2007, a joint venture with state-owned broadcaster TV 2. A channel called TV 2 Sport Xtra is due to launch in the autumn, broadcasting some content in high definition. A dedicated golf channel, Viasat Golf, launched in January 2007 (replacing Viasat Sport 24.

As of 2007, these channels are broadcasting: