Sport TV

Sport TV

"This article is about the Portuguese sports network. For the similarly named and themed network in Brazil, see SporTV."

Infobox Network
network_name = SportTV
network_
branding = SportTV
image_format = 4:3 (SD Channels: SportTV 1, SportTV 2 and SportTV 3). 16:9 (HD Channel: SportTV 1 HD)
country = Portugal
network_type = Cable and Satellite television network
slogan = A Paixão do Desporto. (The Passion of Sport.)
available = Portugal
owner = ZON Multimédia and Controlinveste
key_people = Joaquim Oliveira, Owner; Bessa Tavares, Admistrator
launch_date = September 16, 1998
website = [http://www.sporttv.pt www.sporttv.pt]

Sport TV is the brand name for a group of three Portuguese sports-oriented television channels. Sport TV is the dominant subscription television sports brand in Portugal. The first channel, then known as only Sport TV, was launched on 16 September 1998 and is produced by ZON Multimédia and Controlinveste (and originally had the participation of Rádiotelevisão Portuguesa). It is available in almost all television distribution operators in Portugal as a premium subscription channel, except TVTEL.

Sport TV transmits most of the existing sports, mainly football (soccer), Formula 1, basketball, volleyball, rugby, and tennis. It also features debates, news and sports reports.

The most important Portuguese Liga games are broadcasted exclusively by Sport TV.

Seven years after the opening of the first channel, on 16 September 2005 the channel Sport TV2 opened. It will regularly broadcast alternative sports such as mountaineering, cycling and radical sports. The channel is available through TV Cabo Portugal, Cabovisão, Clix SmarTV and Portugal Telecom's Meo. This was followed in June 2008 by Sport TV3.

Sport TV, will broadcast Euro 2008 in HD, through ZON TV Cabo.

Controversies

Sport TV is widely regarded as unpopular and anticompetitive, since it is the only group of channels in Portugal who has the rights to broadcast the BWINLIGA matches, as well as other international competitions. Actually, Portugal is the only country in Europe where the Formula 1 is broadcast on a premium channel, in this case, Sport TV.

On September 2007, Sport TV sent a cease-and-desist to a portuguese live tv streaming website [http://www.tvtuga.com] , because the latter was providing links to streams of Champions League matches that only Sport TV had the rights to broadcast. This has caused great public concern of the monopoly abuse status of the Sport TV channels.

Football Leagues and Cups

Every year Sportv shows many live matches from around the world of football.
*Portuguese Liga
*Portuguese Cup
*Carlsberg Cup
*Liga de Honra
*Premier League
*FA Cup
*Football League Cup
*FA Community Shield
*La Liga
*Copa del Rey
*Supercopa de España
*Serie A
*Coppa Italia
*Ligue 1
*Coupe de France
*Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
*FIFA Club World Cup
*Copa Libertadores
*Copa Sudamericana
*UEFA Champions League
*UEFA Cup
*UEFA Intertoto Cup
*UEFA European Football Championship
*Copa América
*FIFA World Cup

External links

* [http://www.sporttv.pt Official site]


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