Dubai Sports is a 24/7 sports channel based in Dubai

Dubai

Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...

, United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...

. The channel started in 1998 to be the home for sports news around the country and was awarded the privilege of showing different sports events locally and worldwide. It is one of the channels of Dubai Media Incorporated

Dubai Media Incorporated

Dubai Media Incorporated is the official media organization of the government of Dubai. It was established in 2003 as a government-owned company comprising a number of print, radio and TV channels under its umbrella including: Dubai TV, Al Bayan, Sama Dubai, Dubai One, Dubai Sports, Dubai Racing,...

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Channels

Dubai Sports has two sister channels: Dubai Sports 2 and Dubai Sports 3.

On the 22nd of February 2010 Dubai Sports launched a new channel "Dubai Sports HD" broadcasting in High Definition

High-definition television

High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...

 on BADR4

BADR4

Badr-4 is an EADS Astrium-built communications satellite operated by Arabsat, launched November 8, 2006 on a Proton-M/Briz-M rocket....

 Frequency 12169 Vertical 27500 3/4.

Events

Dubai Sports shows different events locally and around the world, that include:

Football:

• Bundesliga
  Fußball-Bundesliga
  The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...
  
   - Germany
• UAE League
  UAE League
  The UAE Pro League Committee , commonly known as PLC, is the professional association football league of the United Arab Emirates. Founded in 1973, the league currently holds a number of tournaments for the 12 participating teams, including the Etisalat Pro-League, the Etisalat Cup, Etisalat...
  
   - Local

Tennis:

• Davis Cup
  Davis Cup
  The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Britain and the United States. By...
  
  
• Dubai Tennis Championships
  Dubai Tennis Championships
  The Dubai Tennis Championships is a professional tennis tournament owned and organized by Dubai Duty Free and held annually in Dubai, United Arab...
  
  
• Hopman Cup
  Hopman Cup
  The Hopman Cup is an annual international team tennis tournament held in Perth, Western Australia in early January each year, which plays mixed teams on a country by country basis...
  
  Exhibition tournament

And other events.