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| Broadcast area | Denmark Finland Norway Sweden Estonia Lithuania Russia |
|---|---|
| Network | V Sport |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Viaplay Group |
| History | |
| Launched | January 2007 |
| Replaced | Viasat Sport 24 |
| Former names | Viasat Golf (2007–2020) |
| Links | |
| Website | Viasat Golf (in Norwegian) Viasat Golf (in Swedish) |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Digita (Finland) | Channel 67 (SD) |
| DNA (Finland) | Channel 123 (HD) |
V Sport Golf is a pan-Nordic television channel dedicated to broadcasting golf tournaments and golf-related programmes.
The channel was launched in January 2007 after MTG had acquired many rights for live broadcasting of golf tournaments, such as the US PGA Tour, the PGA European Tour, the European Challenge Tour, the European Seniors Tour, the Scandinavian Masters, the Sunshine Tour, the Ryder Cup, the World Golf Championships, the Seve Trophy, the Australasian Tour and the Southern Africa Tour. [1] Viasat Golf took the space that had been used for Viasat Sport 24. Golf tournaments that had been aired on Viasat Sport 1 and SportN were moved to Viasat Golf.
In 2020, the channel was renamed V Sport Golf.
Modern Times Group (MTG) is a digital entertainment company based in Stockholm, Sweden. It formed from the media holdings of investment company Kinnevik, which in 1997 was distributed to the company stockholders. It is a strategic and operational investment holding company, managing a portfolio including gaming companies InnoGames, Ninja Kiwi and Kongregate, and digital network company Zoomin.TV.
Viasat was a satellite and pay television brand, co-owned by the Swedish media group Viaplay Group in the Nordic countries, Antenna Group 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.
The European Tour, currently titled as the DP World Tour for sponsorship reasons, and legally the PGA European Tour or the European Tour Group, is the leading men's professional golf tour in Europe. The organisation also operates the European Senior Tour and the developmental Challenge Tour; the second tier of men's professional golf in Europe. The tour's headquarters are at the Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, Surrey, England. The European Tour was established by the British-based Professional Golfers' Association through the 1970s, and responsibility was transferred to an independent PGA European Tour organisation in 1984.
Golf Channel is an American sports television network owned by the NBC Sports Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. Founded in Birmingham, Alabama, it is currently based out of NBC Sports' headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut.
V Film is a group of premium movie channels broadcasting in the Nordic countries owned by Viaplay Group.
V Sport is the common brand of several sports channels targeting the Nordic countries, owned by Viaplay Group. The brand has been introduced in June 2020, replacing the former brands Viasat Sport and Viasport. Its main competitors are TV 2 Sport (Denmark), TV 2 Sport (Norway), TV4 Sport (Sweden), MTV Urheilu (Finland) and Eurosport.
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. It is available in almost all television distribution operators in Portugal as a premium subscription channel.
TV3 Sport is a Danish sports television channel, owned by Viaplay Group 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.
V Sport is a group of Swedish sports channels owned by Viaplay Group, broadcasting from the United Kingdom and constituting a part of the pan-Nordic V Sport offering. The Swedish V Sport channels except V Sport Motor and V Sport Extra are also distributed in Finland.
Viasat 1 was a Ghanaian television channel owned by the Swedish listed media group, Modern Times Group (MTG). It was replaced by Kwesé Sports in 2016.
V Sport Football is a Swedish television channel dedicated to football. The channel was launched on October 17, 2008, and became the primary home to most of Viasat's football broadcasts, which at the time included UEFA Champions League, the FA Cup, Ligue 1 and Premier League.
Golf telecasts have aired on NBC since 1954, with some of its earliest telecasts having included the 1954 U.S. Open, and the first televised coverage of the Ryder Cup in 1959.
Go3 Sport is a group of sports television channels available in the Baltic States. The channel was launched 7 January 2009 as Viasat Sport Baltic. Along with Viasat Golf it replaced Viasat Sport 2 and Viasat Sport 3 for viewers on the Viasat platform in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Viju+ Sport is a television channel available in Russia and the CIS countries.
V Sport is a group of Norwegian television channels owned by Viaplay Group, and a part of the pan-Nordic V Sport brand.
Nova Sport is a Bulgarian sports television channel, part of Nova Broadcasting Group, owned by United Group. The channel launched in 2010 and replaced the music channel MM. It broadcasts live sports events like football, boxing, athletics, golf, basketball, volleyball and others. The television was created with resemblance to the Scandinavian channel Viasat Sport, owned by Modern Times Group, which shares the same graphic package.
Sky Sports is a group of British subscription sports channels operated by the satellite pay television company Sky Group, and is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It has played a major role in the increased commercialisation of British sport since 1991, and has sometimes played a large role inducing organisational changes in the sports it broadcasts, most notably when it encouraged the First Division to break away from the Football League to form the Premier League in 1992.
CANAL8 Sport was a Danish television channel owned by TV4 Group and C More Entertainment.
GolfTV was an international streaming service owned by Warner Bros. Discovery through its international sports unit and run by its Warner Bros. Discovery Golf division, which aired golf tournaments, news and documentaries.
This is a timeline of the history of golf on television in the UK.
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| TV 2 |
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| Viaplay Group |
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| Warner Bros. Discovery | |
| The Walt Disney Company | |
| Paramount Global | |
| BBC Studios | |
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| Defunct |
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| Yleisradio | |
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| Telia Company (MTV Oy) |
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| Sanoma (Nelonen Media) | |
| The Walt Disney Company | |
| Warner Bros. Discovery | |
| Paramount Global | |
| Viaplay Group | |
| Nationwide Finnish |
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| Viasat World | |
| Defunct |
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| NRK | |
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| TV 2 Group |
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| Warner Bros. Discovery | |
| Viaplay Group | |
| The Walt Disney Company | |
| C More Entertainment |
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| Paramount Global | |
| BBC | |
| Other |
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| Defunct |
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| Sveriges Television | |
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| Viaplay Group | |
| Telia Company (TV4 Media) | |
| Warner Bros. Discovery | |
| Paramount Global | |
| The Walt Disney Company | |
| Viasat World | |
| Others | |
| Defunct | |
