Eurosport 1

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Eurosport 1
Eurosport 1 Logo 2015.svg
Launched 13 November 2015
Network Eurosport
Owned by Discovery Communications
Picture format 576i (SDTV 16:9)
1080i (HDTV)
Audience share See separate section
UK:
0.15% (September 2015 (2015-09), BARB)
Slogan Fuel your passion
Country  France
Headquarters Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Formerly called Eurosport (1989–2015)
Sister channel(s) Eurosport 2
Eurosport News
Website www.eurosport.com

Eurosport 1 is a pan-European television sports network channel operated by Eurosport, a Discovery Communications Incorporated division. Discovery took a 20% minority interest share in December 2012,[1] and became majority shareholder in the Eurosport venture with TF1 in January 2014, taking a 51% share of the company,[2] On 22 July 2015 Discovery agreed to acquire TF1's remaining 49% stake in the venture.[3]

The channel is available in 54 countries, in 20 different 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.[4]

Sporting events

Logo used from 2011–2015

Eurosport provides viewers with European and international sporting events. This includes several football competitions:

Other sports events include the Paris Dakar Rally, Monte Carlo Rally, athletics events such as World Athletics Championships and the European Athletics Championships, cycling events such as the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España, tennis events including the French Open, Australian Open, Wimbledon (only for Belgium) and the US 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 as Eurocup Basketball and Olympiakos Piraeus home matches in the Greek Basket League (only for Poland), PGA Tour (only for Italy), winter sports, skating and surfing.

In June 2015 it was announced that Eurosport had secured the pan-European rights (except Russia) to the winter and summer Olympic Games between 2018 and 2024.[5]

Motorsport

Eurosport Events is the Eurosport group's world-class sporting events management/promotion/production division, which promotes the FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC), the FIA European Touring Car Cup and the FIA European 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 the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, a rival rallying series to the World 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 annual 24 Hours of Le Mans in full.

Eurosport airs MotoGP and Superbike World Championship in France and Germany, and has Spanish broadcasting rights for NASCAR and IndyCar Series.

On 29 September 2015, Eurosport acquired the Portuguese broadcasting rights for Formula One between 2016 and 2018.[6]

Eurosport 1 feeds

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 and Asia 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 available free-to-air on European digital satellite television.

Eurosport 1 is currently broadcast in twenty languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Russian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Greek, Turkish, Cantonese.

Eurosport 1 HD

Logo of Eurosport 1 HD

A high-definition simulcast version of Eurosport started broadcasting on 25 May 2008. The first event covered in HD was the 2008 French Open at Roland Garros. On 13 November 2015 it changed its name to Eurosport 1 HD.

Availability

Terrestrial

  • Boxer (Sweden): Channel 40
  • Digitenne (Netherlands): Channel 18
  • DVB-T (Germany):
    • Channel 28 (Hanover)
    • Channel 36 (Cologne/Bonn)
    • Channel 46 (Hamburg)
    • Channel 52 (Ruhr area)
    • Channel 56 (Berlin)
    • Channel 60 (Braunschweig)
  • evotv (Croatia): Channel 405
  • Lattelecom (Latvia): Channel 19
  • Mediaset Premium (Italy): Channel 384
  • PlusTV (Finland): Channel 45

Satellite

Cable

  • Vodafone TV (Spain): Channel 70, Channel 70 (HD)
  • Cabovisão (Portugal): Channel 67, Channel 216 (HD)
  • Com Hem (Sweden): Channel 10, Channel 102 (HD)
  • CTH (Thailand): Channel 67
  • Destiny Cable (Philippines): Channel 85 (Analog), Channel 214 (Digital)
  • Digi TV (Hungary): Channel 33
  • Ziggo (Netherlands): Channel 20 (HD/SD)
  • Foxtel (Australia): Channel 511 (SD/HD), Channel 1511 (SD)
  • GMM Z (Thailand): Channel 372
  • Hot (Israel): Channel 51, Channel 511 (HD)
  • Kabel Deutschland (Germany): Channel 243
  • Lattelecom: Channel 401, Channel 403 (HD)
  • Naxoo: Channel 163 (Deutsch), Channel 248 (Spanish)
  • Nacional'nye kabel'nye seti (Russia): Channel 54
  • Numericable (France): Channel 151 (HD)
  • Optus TV (Australia): Channel 511
  • RCS&RDS (Romania): Channel 23
  • Serbia Broadband: Channel 267, Channel 136 (HD)
  • Sky Cable (Philippines): Channel 214 (Digital)
  • SkyCable (Philippines): Channel 106
  • StarHub TV (Singapore): Channel 212
  • T-Home (Hungary): Channel 9
  • T-Home Digital (Hungary): Channel S26
  • Telenet (Flanders): Channel 65 (HD, English/Dutch)
    Channel 210 (English/Dutch)
    Channel 220 (French)
  • Telenet (Brussels): Channel 168 (HD, English/Dutch)
    Channel 620 (French)
    Channel 621 (English/Dutch)
  • Türksat Kablo TV (Turkey): Channel S21
  • WightFibre (UK): Channel 87
  • UPC (Hungary): Channel 13
  • UPC (Romania): Channel 203 (digital with DVR), Channel 73 (digital)
  • UPC Digital (Hungary): Channel 44 (HD), Channel 45
  • Virgin Media Ireland: Channel 423, Channel 424 (HD)
  • UPC Poland (Poland): Channel 564, Channel 565 (HD)
  • Virgin Media (UK): Channel 521 (HD), Channel 523
  • NOS (Portugal): Channel 26, Channel 27 (HD)

IPTV

Online

References

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