Eurosport 2
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Country | France United Kingdom |
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Broadcast area | Europe |
Network | Eurosport |
Headquarters | Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English, Swedish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Russian in CIS (except Russia), Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Croatian, Turkish, Czech, Slovak, Portuguese, Albanian, Dutch, Spanish (specific events), Danish, Finnish, Norwegian |
Picture format | 2160p UHDTV (downscaled to 1080i and 576i for the HDTV and SDTV feeds respectively) |
Ownership | |
Owner | TNT Sports (operated by Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA) |
Parent | TNT Sports International |
Sister channels | |
History | |
Launched | 10 January 2005 |
Replaced | Eurosport DK (Denmark) Eurosport News (some countries) |
Closed | 9 March 2022 28 February 2025 (United Kingdom)[1][2] | (Russia)
Links | |
Website | eurosport.com |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
See separate section | |
Streaming media | |
Discovery+ | Watch live (subscription required) |
DAZN | Watch live (Italy only) |
Ziggo GO | Watch live (Netherlands only) |
Eurosport 2 is a sports television channel and a sister channel to Eurosport 1. Both are part of the Eurosport network which is a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. Several different versions of the channel exist across Europe, with different sports rights across different markets. Eurosport 2 had an audience of 87 million viewers in 2019 -- an increase in size of one million.[3]
Launch
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Eurosport 2 launched on 10 January 2005, replacing Eurosport News in some countries including the United Kingdom.[4] It is currently available in 50 million homes and 47 countries,[5] broadcasting in 18 different languages English, Swedish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Russian, Bulgarian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Turkish, Czech, Dutch, Spanish and Danish.
On 9 March 2022, Discovery Inc. closed Eurosport 2 in Russia due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.[6]
Programming
[edit]Eurosport 2 considers itself "a new-generation sports channel", and is dedicated to team sports and in particular 'alternative' and niche sports including European basketball, National Lacrosse League, Twenty20 cricket, AFL Aussie Rules, surfing and the Handball Champions League, amongst others.
On 2 July 2010, the Arena Football League announced that Eurosport 2 would show matches that the NFL Network broadcast in the United States on a tape delay for the rest of the season, as well as coverage of ArenaBowl XXIII. The deal also includes rights for the entire 2011 season to be broadcast on the channel.
Feeds
[edit]HD feed
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Eurosport 2 HD, a high-definition version of the channel is also available.[7] In central and northern Europe, it carries some exclusive programming such as Bundesliga football from Germany, WWE wrestling shows and live Australian Rules Football matches, which are not available on other versions due to local networks holding the rights.
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Country | Germany |
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Broadcast area | Germany Switzerland |
Network | Eurosport |
Headquarters | Munich, Germany |
Programming | |
Language(s) | German |
Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Warner Bros. Discovery |
Sister channels | Eurosport 1 Eurosport 2 Discovery Channel DMAX TLC |
History | |
Launched | 4 August 2017 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Eurosport 2 Xtra (Germany)
[edit]Eurosport 2 Xtra is a German pay-television sports channel which broadcasts several Bundesliga matches and the DFL-Supercup in the seasons 2017/18-2020/21 exclusively which Warner Bros. Discovery won in the tender of national media rights arranged by the Deutsche Fußball Liga.[8]
Bundesliga (thirty games on Friday afternoon at 20:30, five games on Sunday afternoon at 13:30, five games on Monday evening at 20:30 and 4 relegation matches at the end of the season) and DFL-Supercup.
Eurosport 2 Xtra is available in HD quality via the Eurosport Player and in the pay-tv offer of HD+ via Astra 19.2°E. The channel is not available in DVB-C, DVB-T or IPTV networks.
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Country | Portugal |
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Broadcast area | Portugal |
Network | Eurosport |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Portuguese |
Picture format | 576i (16:9 SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Discovery Communications |
Sister channels | Eurosport 1 Eurosport 2 |
History | |
Launched | 18 March 2016 |
Closed | 28 February 2017 |
Eurosport 2 Xtra (Portugal)
[edit]Eurosport 2 Xtra was a short-lived premium sports channel in Portugal aimed at broadcasting events whose rights are exclusive to the Portuguese market, such as Formula One. The channel ceased to broadcast on February 28, 2017, after it failed to attract enough subscribers to break even.[9]
Rights
[edit]Football
[edit]Motorsports
[edit]- Formula One
- 24 Hours of Le Mans
- Formula E
- GP2 Series
- GP3 Series
- WTCC
- FIM Eni Superbike World Championship
- Dakar Rally
English Language Bundesliga commentators
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Availability
[edit]Terrestrial
[edit]- Lattelecom (Latvia): Channel 51
- Polsat Box (Poland): Channel 113
Satellite
[edit]- Allente (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden):
- A1 Bulgaria (Bulgaria): Channel 145
- Antik Sat (Czech Republic): Channel 43
- Bulsatcom (Bulgaria): Channel 19
- Canal+: Channel 64
- Canal+ Caraïbes (Overseas France): Channel 125
- DigitAlb (Albania): Channel
- Digiturk (Turkey): Channel 72
- Direct One (Hungary): Channel 123
- D-Smart (Turkey): Channel 76
- Focus Sat (Czech Republic): Channel 68
- Home 3 (Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia)
- MEO (Portugal): Channel 38
- Movistar Plus+ (Spain): Channel 67 (SD)
- M:Sat TV (Serbia): Channel 40
- NOS (Portugal): Channel 131
- Nova (Greece): Channel 113
- Neosat (Bulgaria):
- Orange Polska (Poland): Channel 112
- Platforma Canal+ (Poland): Channel 114
- Polsat Box (Poland): Channel 15
- Sky Italia (Italy): 211
- Telly (Czech Republic): Channel 30
- Tivibu (Turkey): Channel 72
- Telemach (Slovenia):
- Total TV (Bosnia and Herzegovina): Channel 181
- Total TV (Croatia): Channel 121
- Total TV (North Macedonia): Channel 171
- Total TV (Serbia): Channel 171
- T-Home (Hungary): Channel 49
- Viasat Ukraine (Ukraine):
- Vivacom (Bulgaria): Channel 215 (SD)
Cable
[edit]- Caiway (Netherlands): Channel 137 (HD)
- Com Hem (Sweden): Channel 103
- DELTA (Netherlands): Channel 151 (SD)
- Global Destiny (Philippines): Channel 36
- Digi TV (Hungary): Channel 37
- Hot (Israel): Channel 59
- Kabel Deutschland (Germany): Channel 373
- Kabel Noord (Netherlands): Channel 301 (HD)
- Lattelecom (Latvia): Channel 402
- Naxoo (Switzerland): Channel 81
- Numericable (France): Channel 152
- RCS&RDS (Romania): Channel 30
- Serbia Broadband: Channel 268 and Channel 137 (HD)
- Telenet (Flanders): Channel 211
- T-Home (Hungary): Channel 38
- T-Home Digital (Hungary): Channel S38
- UPC Digital (Hungary): Channel 46
- UPC Poland (Poland): Channel 564
- UPC Poland: Channel 566 and Channel 567 (HD)
- UPC Romania: Channel 211
- Vodafone TV (Spain): Channel 251 (HD)
- Ziggo (Netherlands): Channel 411 (HD)
- ZON TV (Portugal): Channel 28 (no coverage in Mirandela)
- ArtMotion (Kosovo): Channel 81
- IPKO (Kosovo) Channel 217
- DigitAlb (Albania)
- Kujtesa (Kosovo) Channel 145
IPTV
[edit]- Belgacom TV (Belgium): Channel 74 (Dutch) and Channel 85 (French)
- BT TV (United Kingdom): Channel 413 and Channel 436 (HD)
- eir Vision (Ireland): Channel 414 and Channel 428 (HD)
- KPN (Netherlands): Channel 36 (HD)
- MEO (Portugal): Channel 38
- MojaTV (Bosnia and Herzegovina): Channel 35
- Movistar+ (Spain): Channel 62 (HD, SD)
- On Telecoms (Greece): Channel 47
- Open IPTV (Serbia): Channel 562
- Orange TV (Spain): Channel 101 (HD)
- Tele2 (Netherlands): Channel 208 (SD)
- T-Home (Hungary): Channel
- T-Mobile (Netherlands): Channel 132 (HD)
- Tivibu (Turkey): Channel 86
- Vodafone Tv Net Voz (Portugal): Channel 27
- iNES (Romania): Channel
References
[edit]- ^ Clarke, Stewart (28 January 2025). "Eurosport To Be Replaced By TNT In The UK As Warner Bros. Discovery Shakes Up Sports Portfolio". Deadline. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
- ^ Cunningham, Euan (28 January 2025). "No more Eurosport in the UK from late February as channels merged with TNT". Sportcal. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
- ^ "Eurosport audience size 2014-2019". Retrieved 10 February 2022.
- ^ "Eurosport News becomes Eurosport 2". Digital Spy. 10 January 2005.
- ^ "Eurosport 2 races into 50 million homes". Broadbandtvnews.com. 11 March 2011. Retrieved 11 March 2011.
- ^ "WarnerMedia and Discovery join the stampede of businesses leaving Russia". CNN. 9 March 2022.
- ^ "Eurosport 2 plans HD launch" broadbandtvnews.com 5 August 2009 Link retrieved 5 August 2009
- ^ "DFL exceeds one billion Euro threshold for national media rights: on average 1.16 billion Euro per season starting 2017/18". Archived from the original on 16 December 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
- ^ "Fórmula 1 sem transmissão em Portugal". Autoportal. 24 January 2017. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
External links
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