Television station
This article is about the Portuguese sports network.
For the similarly named and themed network in Brazil, see SporTV .
For💴 sports television in general, see broadcasting of sports eventsTelevision channel
Sport TV is a Portuguese sports-oriented premium cable and satellite television💴 network with seven premium channels in Portugal, one sports news channel and one channel in Portuguese-speaking Africa.
The first channel, then💴 only known as Sport TV, was launched on 16 September 1998.
It is owned by Altice Portugal, NOS, Vodafone Portugal and💴 Global Media Group (and originally had the participation of RTP).
It is available in almost all television distribution operators in Portugal💴 as a premium subscription channel.
Sport TV broadcasts mainly association football, basketball, volleyball, futsal, rugby, surf, golf, athletics, wrestling, and American💴 sports, combat sports, auto racing, and tennis.
It also features debates, news, and sports reports.
All Primeira Liga matches are exclusively broadcast💴 by Sport TV, with the exception of Benfica home matches, which are broadcast on the club's channel, BTV.
History [ edit💴 ]
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 as mountaineering, cycling and radical sports.
The channel was available only through ZON TV Funtastic💴 Life package, but the model did not work.
They relaunched the channel as a premium channel, also available on Cabovisão and💴 Portugal Telecom's MEO.
This was followed in June 2008 by SportTV 3.
Sport TV shown UEFA Euro 2008 in HD, through ZON💴 TV.
On January 22, 2010, the thematic golf channel SPORT.
TV Golfe and its HD simulcast, SPORT.
TV Golfe HD were launched.
On August💴 13, 2010, they launched SPORT.
TV Liga Inglesa, a HD channel dedicated to the Premier League, broadcasting 380 games and 400💴 highlights per season, made by the Premier League (also broadcasting on other countries).
On January 7, 2011, SPORT.TV1, SPORT.TV2 and SPORT.
TV3💴 started to broadcast in 16:9.
On August 13, 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 June 5, 2013, Sport TV stopped broadcasting in the United States.
On August 1, 2013, SPORT💴 TV launched a new channel, SPORT.
TV Live, replacing SPORT.TV4.
On August 14, 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.
SportTV's first logo, used until June 2008
SportTV's💴 second logo, used from June 2008 until August 2016
Controversies [ edit ]
Sport TV is widely regarded as anti-competitive, since it💴 is the only group of channels in Portugal with the rights to broadcast the Primeira Liga matches (except Benfica home💴 games).[2][3]
In September 2007, Sport TV sent a cease and desist to a Portuguese live TV streaming website tvtuga.
com because the💴 latter was providing links to streams of UEFA Champions League matches that only SPORT TV had the rights to broadcast💴 in Portugal.
This has caused great public concern with regard to the monopoly abuse status of the SPORT TV channels.[4][5]
On 17💴 January 2011, Sport TV was criticized by Benfica after a match against Académica.
Benfica's director of communications at the time, João💴 Gabriel, accused the channel commentators of bias against the club.[6][7]
Broadcasting rights [ edit ]Basketball [ edit ]
Rugby union [ edit💴 ]
Motorsports [ edit ]Ice hockey [ edit ]MMA [ edit ]Golf [ edit ]Tennis [ edit ]Channels [ edit ]
Current💴 channels [ edit ]SPORT.TV+SPORT.
TV 1 (formerly SportTV)SPORT.TV 2SPORT.TV 3SPORT.TV 4SPORT.TV 5SPORT.TV 6NBA TVSPORT.TV ÁFRICA 1 HD
Former Channels [ edit ]SPORT.TV💴 HDSPORT.
TV LIGA INGLESASPORT.TV LIVESPORT.TV AMÉRICASSPORT.TV ÁFRICA 2SPORT.TV 4K UHD
Sport TV Américas [ edit ]
On August 13, 2010, SportTV launched SPORT.
TV💴 Américas, a dedicated sports channel for the Portuguese diaspora in North America.
The channel was launched in partnership with American Portuguese-language💴 broadcaster SPT TV.
It airs live football matches every week from the Portuguese First & Second divisions as well as coverage💴 of the League Cup and Portuguese Cup.
On June 5, 2013, for reasons exclusively imputable to RTP - USA Inc.
dba SPT💴 (Seabras Portuguese Television), SPORT TV Portugal S.A.
was forced to restrain the access to the respective signal in the United States.
Association💴 football programming on Sport TV América includes:SPORT.
TV Américas is no longer available in the United States via cable or satellite.
It💴 is available online only, through Premium Sports (broadband.premiumsports.
tv) in the United States & Canada for a monthly fee of $9.99💴 or $99 annually.
Also on FuboTV (fubo.
tv) for a monthly fee of $19.99.[8]
Since June 2016 SPORT.
TV Américas is no longer available💴 in the United States via cable, satellite or online.
Premium Sports (broadband.premiumsports.
tv) stop showing the channel to their yearly customers before💴 the end of their yearly contract.SPORT.
TV Américas no longer shows on SPORT TV website.
See also [ edit ]
