Sport TV

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Sport TV
Country Portugal
Programming
Picture formatAspect Ratio: 16:9
Resolution: 576i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Ownership
Owner Olivedesportos (25%)
Altice Portugal (25%)
NOS (25%)
Vodafone Portugal (25%) [1]
History
Launched3 September 1998;26 years ago (1998-09-03)
Links
Website sporttv.pt

Sport TV is a Portuguese sports-oriented premium cable and satellite television network with seven premium channels in Portugal, one sports news channel and one channel in Portuguese-speaking Africa. The first channel, then only known as Sport TV, was launched on 16 September 1998. It is owned by Altice Portugal, NOS, Vodafone Portugal and Global Media Group (and originally had the participation of RTP). It is available in almost all television distribution operators in Portugal as a premium subscription channel.

Contents

Sport TV broadcasts mainly association football, basketball, volleyball, futsal, rugby, surf, golf, athletics, wrestling, and American sports, combat sports, auto racing, and tennis. It also features debates, news, and sports reports.

All Primeira Liga matches are exclusively broadcast by Sport TV, with the exception of Benfica home matches, which are broadcast on the club's channel, BTV.

History

SportTV's first logo, until June 2008 Sporttv1998.gif
SportTV's first logo, until June 2008
SportTV's second logo, from June 2008 until August 2016 Sporttv logo.png
SportTV's second logo, from June 2008 until August 2016

On 16 September 2005, seven years after the opening of the first channel, Sport TV launched a second channel, SportTV 2. It regularly broadcasts alternative sports such as mountaineering, cycling and radical sports. The channel was available only through ZON TV Funtastic Life package, but the model did not work. They relaunched the channel as a premium channel, also available on Cabovisão and Portugal Telecom's MEO. This was followed in June 2008 by SportTV 3.

Sport TV shown UEFA Euro 2008 in HD, through ZON TV.

On 22 January 2010 the thematic golf channel SPORT.TV Golfe and its HD simulcast, SPORT.TV Golfe HD were launched.

On 13 August 2010 they launched SPORT.TV Liga Inglesa, an HD channel dedicated to the Premier League, broadcasting 380 games and 400 highlights per season, made by the Premier League (also broadcasting on other countries).

On 7 January 2011 SPORT.TV1, SPORT.TV2 and SPORT.TV3 started to broadcast in 16:9.

On 13 August 2011 all of the SportTV main channels started to broadcast in HD and it was launched a new channel, SPORT.TV4, that also is available in HD. At the same time, the Sport TV HD channel ended its two-year run.

On 5 June 2013 Sport TV stopped broadcasting in the United States.

On 1 August 2013 SPORT TV launched a new channel, SPORT.TV Live, replacing SPORT.TV4.

On 14 August 2014 SPORT.TV Live was renamed to SPORT.TV4 again (there's also SPORT.TV4 HD). SPORT.TV Golfe was renamed to SPORT.TV5, which is also available in HD.

Broadcasting rights

Football

International competitions
National competitions

Basketball

Rugby union

Motorsports

Ice hockey

MMA

Golf

Tennis

Channels

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Sport TV channels logo

Current channels

Former Channels

Controversies

A 2003 contract to create new Sport TV channels was rejected by RTP, [2]

Sport TV is widely regarded as anti-competitive, since it is the only group of channels in Portugal with the rights to broadcast the Primeira Liga matches (except Benfica home games, which air on their in-house channel Benfica TV). [3] [4]

In September 2007, Sport TV sent a cease and desist to a Portuguese live TV streaming website tvtuga.com because the latter was providing links to streams of UEFA Champions League matches that only SPORT TV had the rights to broadcast in Portugal. This has caused great public concern with regard to the monopoly abuse status of the SPORT TV channels. [5]

On 17 January 2011, Sport TV was criticized by Benfica after a match against Académica. Benfica's director of communications at the time, João Gabriel, accused the channel commentators of bias against the club. [6] [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Lei da Transparência". SportTV.pt. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "RTP bloqueia novos canais da Sport TV". Público. 21 February 2003. Archived from the original on 9 August 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  3. ↑ "PS quer ouvir AdC, PT, ZON e SportTV por alegado monopólio no futebol" [PS (Socialist Party) wants to hear AdC, PT, ZON and SportTV about alleged monopoly in football]. Agência Lusa. 7 June 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  4. ↑ "Mário Figueiredo arrasa Olivedesportos" [Mário Figueiredo devastates Olivedesportos]. Correio da Manhã (in Portuguese). 1 November 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  5. ↑ "Liga congratula-se com condenação da SPORT TV e espera para breve o fim do monopólio dos direitos televisivos" [Liga welcomes condemnation of SPORT TV and hopes for soon the end of the monopoly of television rights] (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on June 14, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Sport TV acusada de parcialidade" [Sport TV accused of bias]. Record (in Portuguese). 17 January 2011. Archived from the original on 19 January 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  7. ↑ "Benfica acusa Sport TV de parcialidade" [Benfica accuse Sport TV of bias]. Agência Lusa. 17 January 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
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