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| Country | Greece |
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| Broadcast area | National |
| Headquarters | Broadcasting House |
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| Language | Greek |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | ERT |
| Sister channels | ERT1 ERT2 ERT3 ERT World |
| History | |
| Launched | 27 April 2011 11 June 2015 (Relaunch) 9 February 2019 (as ERT Sports) |
| Closed | 8 February 2019 (as ERT HD) 1 December 2020 (as ERT Sports) |
| Replaced by | ERT1 HD |
| Links | |
| Website | ERT Sports HD |
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| ERTflix | Watch live |
ERT Sports (Greek:ΕΡΤ Sports) was aGreekfree-to-air television channel, owned by theHellenic Broadcasting Corporation, the state broadcaster of Greece. It was the first high-definitiontelevision channel in the country and started broadcasting on 27 April 2011 in several large cities such asAthens,Thessaloniki andAlexandroupoli as ERT HD.[1]
ERT HD broadcast such important international events as theOlympic Games, theUEFA European Championship and theEurovision Song Contest. It broadcasts at1080i frame, encoded atAdvanced Video Coding on theDVB-T standard.[2]
On 1 December 2020, ERT Sports was technically replaced on terrestrial television by ERT1 HD, while at the same time, HD broadcasts began in 80% of the country's population for ERT2 and ERT3. ERT Sports is currently broadcast only through the ERTFLIX platform, in three separate instances (ERT Sports, ERT Sports 2 and ERT Sports 3), to allow concurrent broadcasting of athletic events.[3][4] Following ERT Sports' closure, ERT 1 is responsible for the broadcast of theFrench Open, the finals of theUEFA Champions League,UEFA Europa League andFormula One and ERT 3 for games of theGreek Basket League, theBasketball Champions League, theA1 Ethniki Volleyball and the Greek handball championship,[4] as well as theSuper League Greece 2.[5] When two or more athletic events are scheduled for simultaneous or near simultaneous broadcast, both ERT 3 and ERT Sports channels are used; the ERT Sports channels do not broadcast other content otherwise. During theXXXII Olympiad, on certain days, all ERT channels, terrestrial and via the internet were utilized for the broadcast of athletic events.[6]
The Greek private television channelSkai filed a lawsuit against the state broadcaster in 2011 for what it claimed was an illegalmonopoly on high-definition programming by the public broadcaster. In its lawsuit, Skai claimed that ERT was in violation ofEuropean Union regulations regardingcompetition.[7]
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