Eurosport 1

Eurosport 1
Launched 5 February 1989
Network Eurosport
Owned by Discovery Communications
Picture format 576i (SDTV 16:9)
1080i (HDTV)
Audience share See separate section
UK:
0.15% (September 2015 (2015-09), BARB)
Slogan Fuel your passion
Country Europe
Indonesia
Australia
Taiwan
Hong Kong
Philippines
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Malaysia
Headquarters Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Formerly called Eurosport (1989–2015)
Sister channel(s) Eurosport 2
Eurosport News
Website www.eurosport.com
Availability
Terrestrial
Boxer (Sweden) Channel 40
Digitenne (Netherlands) Channel 18
DVB-T (Germany) Channel 28 (Hanover)
Channel 36 (Cologne/Bonn)
Channel 46 (Hamburg)
Channel 52 (Ruhr area)
Channel 56 (Berlin)
Channel 60 (Braunschweig)
evotv (Croatia) Channel 405
Lattelecom (Latvia) Channel 19
Mediaset Premium (Italy) Channel 384
PlusTV (Finland) Channel 45
Satellite
Astra 1L 12.227 GHz H / 27500 (German, FTA)
Hot Bird 11.242 GHz V / 27.5 (Viaccess PC 2.5,
SECA/Mediaguard 2, Irdeto 2)
Max TV (Romania) Channel TBA
Antenna Digital (Hungary) Channel TBA
Aora (Indonesia) Channel 612
Astro (Malaysia) Channel 814
BiG TV (Indonesia) Channel 949
Boom TV (Romania) Channel 51
Bulsatcom (Bulgaria) Channel 205
Channel 204 (HD)
Canal Digitaal (Netherlands) Channel 32
Channel 28 (HD)
Canal Digital Nordic countries
CanalSat (France) Channel 121 (HD)
Cignal Digital TV (Philippines) Channel 57
Cyfra+ (Poland) Channel 101 (HD)
Cyfrowy Polsat (Poland) Channel 14
Channel 120 (HD)
D-Smart (Turkey) Channel 40
Channel 114 (HD)
Dialog TV
(Sri Lanka)		 Channel 33 (SD)
Digi TV (Hungary) Channel ?
Digi TV (Romania) Channel TBA
Digitalb (Albania) Channel 34 (HD)
Digiturk (Turkey) Channel 71
Channel 371 (HD)
Dolce (Romania) Channel 301
DTV (Thailand) Channel 3 (HD)
Foxtel (Australia) Channel 511 (SD/HD)
Channel 1511 (SD)
Indovision (Indonesia) Channel 304
MAXtv (Croatia) Channel 401
N (Poland) Channel 111 (HD)
NTV Plus (Russia) Channel
Channel (HD)
OTE TV (Greece) Channel 305 (HD)
Sky (UK & Ireland) Channel 410 (SD/HD)
Channel 411 (SD/HD)
Cable
Cabovisão (Portugal) Channel 67
Channel 216 (HD)
Com Hem (Sweden) Channel 10
Channel 102 (HD)
CTH (Thailand) Channel 67
Destiny Cable (Philippines) Channel 85 (Analog)
Channel 214 (Digital)
Digi TV (Hungary) Channel 33
Ziggo (Netherlands) Channel 20 (HD/SD)
Foxtel (Australia) Channel 511 (SD/HD)
Channel 1511 (SD)
GMM Z (Thailand) Channel 372
Hot (Israel) Channel 51
Channel 511 (HD)
Kabel Deutschland (Germany) Channel 243
Lattelecom Channel 401
Channel 403 (HD)
Naxoo Channel 163 (Deutsch)
Channel 248 (Spanish)
Nacional'nye kabel'nye seti (Russia) Channel 54
Numericable (France) Channel 151 (HD)
Optus TV (Australia) Channel 511
RCS&RDS (Romania) Channel 23
Serbia Broadband Channel 267
Channel 136 (HD)
Sky Cable (Philippines) Channel 214 (Digital)
SkyCable (Philippines) Channel 106
StarHub TV (Singapore) Channel 212
IPTV
BT (United Kingdom) Channel 412
Channel 435 (HD)
CHT MOD (Taiwan) Channel 180 (HD)
Conn-x TV (Greece) Channel 21
iNES (Romania) Channel
KPN (Netherlands) Channel 30
MAXtv (Croatia) Channel 401
MEO (Portugal) Channel 36 (HD)
Channel 37
MojaTV (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Channel 34
Moldtelecom (Moldova) Channel 301
Movistar TV (Spain) Channel 40 (HD)
Now TV (Hong Kong) Channel 676
On Telecoms (Greece) Channel 46
Open IPTV (Serbia) Channel 561
Singtel TV (Singapore) Channel 112 (HD)
SK Telecom B tv (South Korea) Channel 654
T-Home (Hungary) Channel
Tivibu (Turkey) Channel 85
TPG IPTV (Australia) Channel 677
Xbox 360 (Australia) Channel 511
Vodafone Tv Net Voz (Portugal) Channel 25
Channel 26 (HD)
Streaming media
Eurosport Player Watch live (European Broadcasting Union member countries only)
Horizon Go Horizon.tv (Netherlands only)
Horizon.tv (Ireland only)
Lattelecom
Sky Go Watch live
(UK and Ireland only)
Yelo TV Watch live (Dutch, Belgium only)
Virgin TV Anywhere Watch live (UK only)

Eurosport 1 is a pan-European television sports network channel operated by Eurosport, a Discovery Communications Incorporated division. Discovery took a 20% minority interest share in December 2012,[1] and became majority shareholder in the Eurosport venture with TF1 in January 2014, taking a 51% share of the company,[2] On 22 July 2015 Discovery agreed to acquire TF1's remaining 49% stake in the venture.[3]

The channel is available in 54 countries, in 20 different languages providing viewers with European and international sporting events. Eurosport first launched on European satellites on 5 February 1989. On 13 November 2015 Eurosport changed the name of its main channel into Eurosport 1.[4]

Sporting events

Logo used from 2011–2015

Eurosport provides viewers with European and international sporting events. This includes: the Paris Dakar Rally, Monte Carlo Rally, athletics events such as World Athletics Championships and the European Athletics Championships, cycling events such as the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España, tennis events including the French Open, Australian Open and the US Open, World Championship Snooker, ICC World Twenty20, ICC Cricket World Cup, ICC Champions Trophy, Sudirman Cup, All England Open Badminton Championships, Australian Football League, wintersports. Major League Soccer (except UK) and youth sports like skating and surfing. In June 2015 it was announced that Eurosport had secured the pan-European rights (except Russia) to the winter and summer Olympic Games between 2018 and 2024.[5]

Motorsport

Eurosport Events is the Eurosport group's world-class sporting events management/promotion/production division, which promotes the FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC), the FIA European Touring Car Cup and the FIA European Rally Championship. Eurosport broadcasts every WTCC race live and every ERC rally either live or with daily highlights.

Eurosport Events (formerly known as 'KSO Kigema Sports Organisation Ltd') was also the promoter of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, a rival rallying series to the World Rally Championship. The IRC ceased at the end of the 2012 season, with Eurosport taking over series promotion of the ERC from 2013.

Since 2008, the Eurosport Group has also been broadcasting the annual 24 Hours of Le Mans in full.

On 29 September 2015, Eurosport acquired the Portuguese broadcasting rights for Formula One between 2016 and 2018.[6]

Eurosport 1 feeds

In Europe, Eurosport 1 is generally available in basic cable and satellite television packages. Since 1999, Eurosport 1 provides various opt-out services providing more relevant sporting content specific to language, advertising and commentary needs. Eurosport offers a stand-alone channel which provides a standardised version of the channel (Eurosport International in English). Alongside this there are also local Eurosport channels in France, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Poland, Nordic region and Asia Pacific. These channels offer greater sporting content with local sporting events, while also utilising the existing pan-European feed. The German version of Eurosport is the only one available free-to-air on European digital satellite television.

Eurosport 1 is currently broadcast in twenty languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Russian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Greek, Turkish, Cantonese.

Eurosport 1 HD

Logo of Eurosport 1 HD

A high-definition simulcast version of Eurosport which launched on 25 May 2008. The first event covered in HD being the 2008 French Open at Roland Garros. On 13 November 2015 it changed its name to Eurosport 1 HD.

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