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| Country | Portugal |
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| Programming | |
| Picture format | Aspect Ratio:16:9 Resolution:576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Olivedesportos (25%) Altice Portugal (25%) NOS (25%) Vodafone Portugal (25%)[1] |
| History | |
| Launched | 3 September 1998; 26 years ago (1998-09-03) |
| Links | |
| Website | sporttv.pt |
Sport TV is a Portuguese sports-orientedpremiumcable andsatellite televisionnetwork with seven premium channels in Portugal, one sports news channel and one channel in Portuguese-speakingAfrica. The first channel, then only known as Sport TV, was launched on 16 September 1998. It is owned byAltice Portugal,NOS,Vodafone Portugal andGlobal Media Group (and originally had the participation ofRTP). It is available in almost all television distribution operators in Portugal as a premium subscription channel.
Sport TV broadcasts mainlyassociation football,basketball,volleyball,futsal,rugby,surf,golf,athletics,wrestling, and American sports,combat sports,auto racing, andtennis. It also features debates, news, and sports reports.
AllPrimeira Liga matches are exclusively broadcast by Sport TV, with the exception ofBenfica home matches, which are broadcast on the club's channel,BTV.
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 asmountaineering,cycling and radical sports. The channel was available only throughZON TV Funtastic Life package, but the model did not work. They relaunched the channel as a premium channel, also available onCabovisão andPortugal Telecom'sMEO. This was followed in June 2008 by SportTV 3.
Sport TV shownUEFA Euro 2008 inHD, throughZON TV.
On 22 January 2010 the thematic golf channel SPORT.TV Golfe and its HD simulcast, SPORT.TV Golfe HD were launched.
On 13 August 2010 they launched SPORT.TV Liga Inglesa, an HD channel dedicated to thePremier League, broadcasting 380 games and 400 highlights per season, made by the Premier League (also broadcasting on other countries).
On 7 January 2011 SPORT.TV1, SPORT.TV2 and SPORT.TV3 started to broadcast in 16:9.
On 13 August 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 5 June 2013 Sport TV stopped broadcasting in the United States.
On 1 August 2013 SPORT TV launched a new channel, SPORT.TV Live, replacing SPORT.TV4.
On 14 August 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.
UEFA Nations LeagueUEFA European QualifiersUEFA Champions LeagueUEFA Europa LeagueUEFA Conference LeagueUEFA Super Cup
Primera División
Copa do Brasil
FA CupFA Community ShieldEFL Cup
Ligue 1
Serie ACoppa ItaliaSupercoppa Italiana
Eredivisie
Liga Portugal 1(exceptSL Benfica home matches)Liga Portugal 2(exceptSL Benfica B,FC Porto B,Sporting CP B,Vitória SC B andSC Braga B home matches)Taça de PortugalTaça da Liga
Saudi Pro League
Copa del ReySupercopa de España
Süper Lig
DTM
IndyCar SeriesRyder CupU.S. MastersU.S. Open
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A 2003 contract to create new Sport TV channels was rejected by RTP,[2]
Sport TV is widely regarded as anti-competitive, since it is the only group of channels in Portugal with the rights to broadcast thePrimeira Liga matches (except Benfica home games, which air on their in-house channelBenfica TV).[3][4]
In September 2007, Sport TV sent acease and desist to a Portuguese live TV streaming website tvtuga.com because the latter was providing links to streams ofUEFA Champions League matches that only SPORT TV had the rights to broadcast in Portugal. This has caused great public concern with regard to themonopoly abuse status of the SPORT TV channels.[5]
On 17 January 2011, Sport TV was criticized byBenfica after a match againstAcadémica. Benfica's director of communications at the time, João Gabriel, accused the channelcommentators ofbias against the club.[6][7]
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| Grupo Impresa | |
| Media Capital | |
| Medialivre | |
| AMC | |
| Disney Portugal | |
| Globo Portugal | |
| Record Europa | |
| Sport TV | |
| DAZN | |
| Paramount Global | |
| NOS | |
| Sony | |
| Warner Bros. Discovery | |
| NBCUniversal | |
| Stingray Group | |
| Other channels | |
| Services and platforms | |
| Defunct | |
| Unlaunched proposals | |
TDT: free-to-air on DTT –AC/MA: free-to-air on regional DTT | |
