Sport TV
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This article is about the Portuguese sports network. For the similarly named and themed network in Brazil, see SporTV.
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| Type | Cable and Satellite television network |
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| Branding | SportTV |
| Country | Portugal |
| Availability | Portugal |
| Slogan | A Paixão do Desporto. (The Passion of Sport.) |
| Owner | ZON Multimédia (50%) Controlinveste (50%) |
| Key people | Joaquim Oliveira, Owner; Bessa Tavares, Administrator |
| Launch date | September 16, 1998 |
| Website www.sporttv.pt |
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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 broadcast 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, broadcast Euro 2008 in HD, through ZON TV Cabo.
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[edit] 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 Liga Sagres matches, as well as other international competitions. Actually, Portugal is one of the countries in Europe where the Formula 1 is broadcast on a premium channel, in this case, Sport TV, followed by Finland (MTV3 MAX), and in 2009 by Sweden, where races and trainings are broadcast by Viasat Motor.
On September 2007, Sport TV sent a cease-and-desist to a Portuguese live tv streaming website [1], 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.
[edit] Broadcasting Rights
[edit] Football
Every year SportTV shows many live matches from around the world of football.
- Liga Sagres
- Taça de Portugal Millenium
- Carlsberg Cup
- Liga Vitalis
- F.A. Premiership
- F.A. Cup
- Football League Cup
- Community Shield
- Liga BBVA
- Copa del Rey
- Supercopa de España
- Serie A TIM
- Coppa Italia
- Supercoppa Italiana
- 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
[edit] Basketball
[edit] Motors
- Formula One
- MotoGP
- GP2 Series
- A1 Grand Prix
- NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
- Indy Racing League
- MotoGP
- A1 Grand Prix
- International GT Open
- FIA GT Championship
- Others, include Portuguese Rally Championship and Weekly magazines (World Rally Championship Formula 3, SBK, ...)
