Eurosport 2
SDTV feeds respectively) | ||
Ownership | ||
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Owner | Warner Bros. Discovery | |
Sister channels | ||
History | ||
Launched | 10 January 2005 | |
Replaced | Eurosport DK (Denmark) Virgin TV Anywhere Watch live (Ireland only) | |
Ziggo GO | Watch live (Netherlands only) |
Eurosport 2 is a sports television network. It is a sister channel to Eurosport 1, which is a division of the Eurosport Network and a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. Several different versions of the channel exist across Europe, where television rights for sport differ. The Eurosport 2 channel had an audience of 87 million viewers in 2019 -- an increase in size of one million.[1]
Launch
Eurosport 2 launched on 10 January 2005, replacing Eurosport News in some countries including the United Kingdom.[2] It is currently available in 50 million homes and 47 countries,[3] 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.[4]
Programming
Eurosport 2 considers itself "the new generation sports channel", and is dedicated to team sports and in particular 'alternative' and niche sports including European basketball, National Lacrosse League,
On 2 July 2010, the
Eurosport 2 HD
Eurosport 2 HD, a
Eurosport DK
Eurosport DK was a Danish television channel owned by Discovery Networks Northern Europe. The channel replaced Canal 8 Sport and Eurosport 2 in Denmark on 1 July 2015.[6]
On 28 May 2015,
On 15 February 2016, the channel was replaced by Eurosport 2.[8]
Eurosport Norway
Eurosport Norway is a Norwegian television channel that replaced Eurosport 2 since 3 September 2015.[9] . It is owned by
English Language Bundesliga commentators
Name |
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Andreas Evagora |
Tony Jeffers |
Angus Torode |
Ben Harris |
Elliot Richardson |
Andreas Jörger |
Stuart Telford |
Mark Rodden |
Availability
Terrestrial
- Lattelecom(Latvia): Channel 51
- Polsat Box (Poland): Channel 113
Satellite
- 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 (UK & Ireland): Channel 411
- 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
- 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
- Virgin Media Ireland: Channel 425 and Channel 426 (HD)
- Virgin Media (UK): Channel 522 (HD)
- Vodafone TV (Spain): Channel 251 (HD)
- WightFibre (UK): Channel 88
- 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
- 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
External links
References
- ^ "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
- ^ "Eurosport Danmark erstatter Eurosport 2 / Canal 8". DIGITALT.TV. 27 May 2015.
- ^ "Eurosport Danmark erstatter Eurosport 2 / Canal 8". DIGITALT.TV. 27 May 2015.
- ^ "Eurosport 2 genopstår – Eurosport DK skifter navn igen". DIGITALT.TV. 11 December 2015.
- ^ SDS Discoverys pressemelding 24. august 2015, Ny norsk sportskanal på lufta 3. september Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Besøkt 30. september 2015.