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| Country | France United Kingdom |
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| Broadcast area | Europe India United States Latin America the Caribbean |
| Network | Eurosport |
| Headquarters | Issy-les-Moulineaux,Paris |
| Programming | |
| Language | Various |
| Picture format | 2160pUHDTV 1080iHDTV (downscaled to16:9576i for theSDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | TNT Sports (operated byWarner Bros. Discovery EMEA) |
| Parent | TNT Sports International |
| Sister channels | |
| History | |
| Launched | 5 February 1989; 36 years ago (1989-02-05) (original) 22 May 1991; 34 years ago (1991-05-22) (relaunch) |
| Replaced | Screensport (relaunch) |
| Closed | 6 May 1991; 34 years ago (1991-05-06) (original) 28 February 2025; 8 months ago (2025-02-28) (United Kingdom)[1][2] |
| Replaced by | Sky Sports (original) TNT Sports (United Kingdom) |
| Former names | Eurosport (1989–2015) British Eurosport (1999–2015, UK) DSport (2017–2020, India) |
| Links | |
| Website | eurosport.com |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| See separate section | |
| Streaming media | |
| Eurosport app(Europe and wider region | Watch live (subscription required) |
Eurosport 1 is a television sports network channel which is a division ofEurosport and a subsidiary ofEMEA version of Warner Bros. Discovery. Discovery took a 20% minority interest share in December 2012,[3] and became majority shareholder in the Eurosport venture withTF1 in January 2014, taking a 51% share of the company,[4] On 22 July 2015 Discovery agreed to acquire TF1's remaining 49% stake in the venture.[5]
The channel is available in 73 countries, in 21 languages providing viewers with European and international sporting events. Eurosport first launched on European satellites on 5 February 1989. On 13 November 2015 Eurosport changed the name of its main channel into Eurosport 1.[6]
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Eurosport provides viewers with European and international sporting events, certain events are not available in a particular country due to Eurosport not being the rights holder in that territory.
Eurosport Events is the Eurosport group's world-class sporting events management/promotion/production division, which promotes theFIAWorld Touring Car Championship (WTCC), the FIAEuropean Touring Car Cup and the FIAEuropean Rally Championship. Eurosport broadcasts every WTCC race live and every ERC rally either live or with daily highlights.
Eurosport Events (formerly known as 'KSO Kigema Sports Organisation Ltd') was also the promoter of theIntercontinental Rally Challenge, a rival rallying series to theWorld Rally Championship. The IRC ceased at the end of the 2012 season, with Eurosport taking over series promotion of the ERC from 2013.
Since 2008, the Eurosport Group has also been broadcasting the annual24 Hours of Le Mans in full.
Eurosport airsMotoGP,Superbike World Championship andMalaysian Cub Prix in France and Germany, and hasSpanish broadcasting rights forNASCAR andIndyCar Series.
On 29 September 2015, Eurosport acquired thePortuguese broadcasting rights forFormula One between 2016 and 2018.[7]
Other sporting events shown on Eurosport include theDakar Rally,Monte Carlo Rally, athletics events such asWorld Athletics Championships and theEuropean Athletics Championships, cycling events such as theTour de France,Giro d'Italia and theVuelta a España, tennis events including theFrench Open,Australian Open,Wimbledon (only for Belgium and shared coverage with theBBC in the UK) and theUS Open,World Championship Snooker,ICC World Twenty20,ICC Cricket World Cup,ICC Champions Trophy,Sudirman Cup,All England Open Badminton Championships,Australian Football League, basketball events such asEurocup Basketball andOlympiakos Piraeus home matches in theGreek Basket League (only for Poland),PGA Tour (only for Italy), winter sports, skating and surfing.
Early in the station's history,professional wrestling from both sides of the Atlantic was covered, with theWWF'sSuperstars of Wrestling as well asNew Catch filmed mostly in France by the European Wrestling Federation with some German/Austrian footage by theCatch Wrestling Association and featuring a mixture of British, French and German wrestlers (many of them veterans of coverage on Britain'sITV and France'sAntenne 2 andFR3 channels.)
In June 2015, it was announced that Eurosport had secured the pan-European rights (except Russia) to the winter and summerOlympic Games between 2018 and 2024.[8]
In Europe, Eurosport 1 is generally available in basic cable and satellite television packages. Since 1999, Eurosport 1 provides various opt-out services providing more relevant sporting content specific to language, advertising and commentary needs. Eurosport offers a stand-alone channel which provides a standardised version of the channel (Eurosport International in English). Alongside this there are also local Eurosport channels in France, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Poland,Nordic region,Benelux region, andAsia Pacific. These channels offer greater sporting content with local sporting events, while also utilising the existing pan-European feed. The German version of Eurosport is the only one availablefree-to-air on Europeandigitalsatellite television.
Eurosport 1 is currently broadcast in twenty one languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Russian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Greek, Turkish and Persian.
On 9 March 2022, Discovery Inc. closed Eurosport 1 in Russia due toRussia's invasion of Ukraine.[9]
On 28 February 2025, Eurosport 1 also closed in the United Kingdom alongside its sister channel Eurosport 2, with its coverage now airing on TNT Sports.
Ahigh-definitionsimulcast feed of Eurosport started broadcasting on 25 May 2008. The first event covered in HD was the2008 French Open atRoland Garros. On 13 November 2015 it changed its name toEurosport 1 HD.
Being an international channel, Eurosport's performance differs significantly between countries. The figures below show the channel's share of overall viewing in some countries.
| Country | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
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| Bulgaria | 0.5% | 0.6%[10] | ||||||||||||||
| Finland (10+) | 0.6%[11] | 0.7%[12] | 0.7%[13] | 1.0%[14] | ||||||||||||
| France | 1.9%[15] | 1.4%[16] | 1.6%[16] | 1.4%[17] | 0.6% | |||||||||||
| Italy | 0.0%[18] | |||||||||||||||
| Germany (3+) | 0.9% | 1.0% | 0.9%[19] | 0.9% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.6% | 0.7% | 0.6%[20] | |||||
| Netherlands (6+) | 0.8%[21] | 0.8%[22] | 0.9%[23] | 0.9%[24] | 0.9%[25] | 0.9%[26] | 0.8%[27] | 0.8%[28] | 0.9%[29] | 0.9%[30] | 0.7%[31] | 0.6%[32] | 0.7%[33] | 0.6%[34] | 0.8%[35] | 1.0%[36] |
| Poland (4+) | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.6% | 0.8% | |||||||||||
| Romania (4+) | 0.7%[37] | |||||||||||||||
| Sweden (3-99) | 1.6% | 1.4% | 0.9% | 0.6%[38] | ||||||||||||
| United Kingdom | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.2% |
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