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 known as only SPORT TV, was launched on 16 September 1998. It is owned by Portugal Telecom, 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.
SPORT TV broadcasts mainly association football, basketball, volleyball, 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 games are shown exclusively on SPORT TV, with the exception of Benfica home games which are broadcast by BTV.
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History
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 didn't 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 January 22, 2010, the thematic golf channel SPORT.TV Golfe and its HD simulcast, SPORT.TV Golfe HD were launched.
On August 13, 2010, they launched SPORT.TV Liga Inglesa, a 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 January 7, 2011, SPORT.TV1, SPORT.TV2 and SPORT.TV3 started to broadcast in 16:9.
On August 13, 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 June 5, 2013, SPORT TV stopped broadcasting in the United States.
On August 1, 2013, SPORT TV launched a new channel, SPORT.TV Live, replacing SPORT.TV4.
On August 14, 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.
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Controversies
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). Portugal was one of the first countries in Europe where Formula One is broadcast on a premium channel.
On 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.
On 17 January 2011, SPORT TV was criticized by Benfica, after a match against Académica. João Gabriel accused the channel's commentators of bias against the club.
In June 2016 SPORT TV ended their channel SPORT.TV Américas without any warning to their US customers. The channel is no longer available on their website and no further information has been released.
Broadcasting rights
Football
- Liga NOS (except S.L. Benfica home matches)
- Ledman LigaPro (except S.L. Benfica B, F.C. Porto B, Sporting C.P. B, Vitória S.C. B and S.C. Braga B home matches)
- Taça de Portugal Placard
- Taça CTT
- Premier League
- Emirates FA Cup
- EFL Cup
- LaLiga Santander
- Copa del Rey
- Bundesliga
- DFB-Pokal
- DFL-Supercup
- Serie A TIM
- Ligue 1
- SOGAZ Russian Football Championship
- Eredivisie
- Johan Cruijff Schaal
- Copa Sadia do Brasil
- Primera División
- UEFA Champions League
- UEFA Europa League
- UEFA Super Cup
- 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
- CONMEBOL Libertadores Bridgestone
- CONMEBOL Sul-Americana
- CONMEBOL Recopa
- FIFA Club World Cup
Basketball
- NBA
- Euroleague
- Taça de Portugal
Rugby Union
- RBS Six Nations
- European Rugby Champions Cup
- Campeonato Português de Rugby
Motorsports
- Formula 1
- MotoGP
- WRC
- Formula E
- GP2 Series
- GP3 Series
- International GT Open
- FIA GT Championship
- Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series
- IndyCar Series
- DTM
- Others, including Portuguese Rally Championship and Weekly magazines (Formula 3, SBK, etc.)
Gridiron
- NFL
Ice hockey
- NHL
MMA
- BAMMA
- UFC
Professional wrestling
- WWE
- Impact Wrestling
- Ring of Honor
Golf
- Ryder Cup
- U.S. Masters
- U.S. Open
- British Open
- European Tour
- PGA Championship
- PGA Tour
- World Golf Championships
Tennis
- Davis Cup
- Fed Cup
- Wimbledon
- ATP World Tour Masters 1000
- ATP World Tour
Volleyball
- Campeonato Nacional de Voleibol - A1
Channels
Current channels
- SPORT.TV+
- SPORT.TV1 (formerly SportTV)
- SPORT.TV2
- SPORT.TV3
- SPORT.TV4
- SPORT.TV5
- SPORT.TV 4K UHD
- SPORT.TV África
Former Channels
- SPORT.TV HD
- SPORT.TV Liga Inglesa
- SPORT.TV Live
- SPORT.TV Américas
Sport TV Américas
On August 13, 2010, SportTV launched SPORT.TV Américas, a dedicated sports channel for the Portuguese diaspora in North America. The channel was launched in partnership with American Portuguese-language broadcaster SPT TV. It airs live football matches every week from the Portuguese First & Second divisions as well as coverage of the League Cup and Portuguese Cup.
On June 5, 2013, for reasons exclusively imputable to RTP - USA Inc. dba SPT (Seabras Portuguese Television), SPORT TV Portugal S.A. was forced to restrain the access to the respective signal in the United States.
Association football programming on Sport TV América includes:
- Primeira Liga (5 matches per week)
- Segunda Liga (2 matches per week)
- Taça de Portugal
SPORT.TV Américas is no longer available in the United States via cable or satellite. It's available online only, through Premium Sports (broadband.premiumsports.tv) in the United States & Canada for a monthly fee of $9.99 or $99 annually. Also on FuboTV (fubo.tv) for a monthly fee of $19.99.
Since June 2016 SPORT.TV Américas is no longer available in the United States via cable, satellite or online. Premium Sports (broadband.premiumsports.tv) stop showing the channel to their yearly customers before the end of their yearly contract. SPORT.TV Américas no longer shows on SPORT TV website.
References
External links
- Official website (in Portuguese)
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