TV 2 Sport HD

Last updated
TV 2 Sport HD
TV 2 Sport HD.png
Country Denmark
Headquarters Copenhagen, Denmark
Programming
Picture format 720p (HDTV)
Ownership
Owner TV 2 Sport A/S
Sister channels TV 2
TV 2 Charlie
TV 2 Fri
TV 2 News
TV 2 Zulu
History
Launched2 January 2008;13 years ago (2008-01-02)
Closed7 January 2013;8 years ago (2013-01-07)
Replaced by TV3 Sport 1
Former namesTV 2 Sport Xtra (before launch)
Availability

TV 2 Sport HD was the high-definition television sister channel to Danish television channel TV 2 Sport. It was launched on 2 January 2008.

Contents

History

With effect from the turn of the year 2010/2011, TV 2 Sport HD became a mirror of TV 2 Sport, after which the content of the two channels was completely identical. [1] The channel was later taken over by Modern Times Group (MTG) and relayed on 7 January 2013 as TV3 Sport 1.

Related Research Articles

Television in the Netherlands was officially introduced in 1951. In the Netherlands, the television market is divided between a number of commercial networks, such as RTL Nederland, and a system of public broadcasters sharing three channels, NPO 1, NPO 2, and NPO 3. Imported programmes, as well as news interviews with responses in a foreign language, are almost always shown in their original language, with subtitles.

Modern Times Group Digital entertainment company

Modern Times Group (MTG) is a digital entertainment company based in Stockholm, Sweden. MTG was formed out of the media holdings of investment company Kinnevik, which in 1997 was distributed to the company stockholders. Today MTG operates as a strategic and operational investment holding company managing a unique portfolio including esports businesses ESL and DreamHack, gaming companies InnoGames, Ninja Kiwi and Kongregate as well as digital network company Zoomin.TV.

Viasat was a satellite and pay television brand, co-owned by the Swedish media group Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT) in the Nordic countries, Sony Pictures Television in Hungary, and by Viasat World internationally. Founded in Sweden in 1991, Viasat has previously been owned by Modern Times Group. The channels of both companies were broadcast from London.

Eurosport is a pan-European television sports network and a subsidiary of Discovery. Eurosport owns a wide range of rights across many sports but generally does not bid for premium priced rights such as those to major football leagues. However, in 2015 it was awarded rights to broadcast the Olympic Games from 2018 for most of Europe and 2022 for the UK and France in a deal worth €1.3 billion. It transmits much of the same footage across many markets, using unseen commentators rather than on-screen presenters so that the same visual feed may be broadcast in multiple languages while holding down production costs.

Television in Albania was first introduced in 1960. RTSH dominated the Albanian broadcasting field up to the mid-1990s, a period when privately owned radio and TV stations started to occupy the vast empty Albanian frequencies.

DR (broadcaster) Danish public service broadcaster

DR, officially the Danish Broadcasting Corporation in English, is a Danish public-service radio and television broadcasting company. Founded in 1925 as a public-service organization, it is Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enterprise. DR is a founding member of the European Broadcasting Union.

Canal Digital was a Nordic pay TV and internet service provider in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland that was founded in March 1997 as a joint venture between the French pay TV company Canal+ and the Norwegian telecommunications operator Telenor.

C More Entertainment AB is a pay television company that previously operated as Canal+. It targets Nordic countries and has a separate channel in Sweden.

BT TV British television service

BT TV is a subscription IPTV service offered by BT; a division of United Kingdom telecommunications company BT Group, and was originally launched as BT Vision in December 2006. As of the end of June 2019, BT TV had 1.9 million customers.

Television was introduced in Czechoslovakia in 1953. Experimental projects with DVB-T started in 2000. Finally on 21 October 2005, multiplex A (DVB-T) was launched with three channels of Česká televize and one of TV Nova and radio channels of Český rozhlas.

V Sport is the common brand of several sports channels targeting the Nordic countries, owned by Nordic Entertainment Group. The brand has been introduced in June 2020, replacing the former brands Viasat Sport and Viasport. Its main competitors are C More Sport and Eurosport.

Sport TV is a Portuguese sports-oriented premium cable and satellite television network with five premium channels in Portugal, one sports news channel and two channels 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. It is available in almost all television distribution operators in Portugal as a premium subscription channel.

Diema Sport

Diema Sport is a group of Bulgarian paid sports television channels, part of Nova Broadcasting Group, owned by Advance Media Group. It includes the channels Diema Sport HD, Diema Sport 2, Diema Sport 3 and along with the channel Trace Sports Stars HD are bundled together in the paid TV pack Diema Extra. The channels air premium live sports events like the Bulgarian A Football Group, the Premier League and others alongside Diema and Nova Sport. The channels also features magazine sports shows, commentator sports studios and talk shows. The channels share the same graphic interface as the Danish channel TV3 Sport. The first channel Diema Sport HD launched on 21 February 2015 as the second sports channel by MTG in Bulgaria, and the second premium paid channel by Nova TV in Bulgaria after Diema Extra. It is also available in SD in some providers. The second channel Diema Sport 2 launched on 8 August 2015 in HD. The third channel Diema Sport 3 launched on 1 July 2021 and is also available in HD.

TV3 Sport

TV3 Sport is a Danish sports television channel, owned by Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT) and operated by TV3 SPORT. The channel originally broadcast as TV 2 SPORT and was a joint-venture between TV 2 and Modern Times Group.

Eurosport 2 is a European sports television network. It is a sister channel to Eurosport 1 and part of the Eurosport Network. Several different versions of the channel exist across Europe, where television rights for sport differ.

Boxer TV A/S is a company that is broadcasting pay television channels on the digital terrestrial television network in Denmark since February 1, 2009. It is a subsidiary of Boxer TV Access, a Swedish company which is owned by Com Hem.

Canal 9 (Danish TV channel) Danish TV channel

Canal 9 is a Danish pay television channel owned by Discovery Networks Northern Europe previously owned by C More Entertainment from 2009 to 2015.

Cosmote TV is the corporate name for two pay television services in Greece, owned by Greek telecommunication operator OTE. The two services are as follows:

CANAL8 Sport was a Danish television channel owned by TV4 Group and C More Entertainment.

Nordic Entertainment Group is a pan-Nordic media and entertainment company headquartered in Stockholm.

References

  1. TV2 Sport HD bliver nu spejl af TV2 Sport