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Eurosport is a European sports satellite
Satellite

In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an Physical body which has been placed into orbit by human endeavor. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
 and cable
Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required....
 network, available in 54 countries and broadcasting in 20 different languages. It is owned and operated by the TF1 Group
TF1 Group

TF1 Group is a France media holding company , the owner of channel TF1, the largest European private TV channel, and Eurosport, the largest European sports network....
.

Eurosport offers viewers varied sports such as UEFA Champions League
UEFA Champions League

The UEFA Champions League, which evolved from the European Champion Clubs' Cup, is a seasonal club Association football competition organised by UEFA since 1992 for the most successful football clubs in Europe....
, UEFA Cup
UEFA Cup

The UEFA Cup is a association football competition for European club teams, organised by the UEFA. It is the second most important international competition for European football clubs, after the UEFA Champions League....
 football, the Paris Dakar Rally, Monte Carlo Rally
Monte Carlo Rally

The Monte Carlo Rally is a rallying event organized each year by the Automobile Club de Monaco who also organizes the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix and the Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique....
, the Olympics
Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
, cycling events such as Le Tour de France, tennis events including the French Open and the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour
Women's Tennis Association

The Women's Tennis Association, formed in 1973, is the principal organizing body of women's professional tennis. It organizes the WTA Tour, the worldwide professional tennis tour for women, which has for sponsorship reasons been known since 2005 as The Sony Ericsson WTA Tour....
, World Championship Snooker, Australian Football League
Australian Football League

The 'Australian Football League' is the professional Australian national competition in the sport of Australian Rules Football.The league comprises sixteen teams which play 22 home and away rounds between late March and late August or early September....
, wintersports, (although biathlon is usually cancelled to extend coverage of other sports) and youth sports like skating and surfing.






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Eurosport is a European sports satellite
Satellite

In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an Physical body which has been placed into orbit by human endeavor. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
 and cable
Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required....
 network, available in 54 countries and broadcasting in 20 different languages. It is owned and operated by the TF1 Group
TF1 Group

TF1 Group is a France media holding company , the owner of channel TF1, the largest European private TV channel, and Eurosport, the largest European sports network....
.

Eurosport offers viewers varied sports such as UEFA Champions League
UEFA Champions League

The UEFA Champions League, which evolved from the European Champion Clubs' Cup, is a seasonal club Association football competition organised by UEFA since 1992 for the most successful football clubs in Europe....
, UEFA Cup
UEFA Cup

The UEFA Cup is a association football competition for European club teams, organised by the UEFA. It is the second most important international competition for European football clubs, after the UEFA Champions League....
 football, the Paris Dakar Rally, Monte Carlo Rally
Monte Carlo Rally

The Monte Carlo Rally is a rallying event organized each year by the Automobile Club de Monaco who also organizes the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix and the Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique....
, the Olympics
Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
, cycling events such as Le Tour de France, tennis events including the French Open and the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour
Women's Tennis Association

The Women's Tennis Association, formed in 1973, is the principal organizing body of women's professional tennis. It organizes the WTA Tour, the worldwide professional tennis tour for women, which has for sponsorship reasons been known since 2005 as The Sony Ericsson WTA Tour....
, World Championship Snooker, Australian Football League
Australian Football League

The 'Australian Football League' is the professional Australian national competition in the sport of Australian Rules Football.The league comprises sixteen teams which play 22 home and away rounds between late March and late August or early September....
, wintersports, (although biathlon is usually cancelled to extend coverage of other sports) and youth sports like skating and surfing. It has also previously covered events such as the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a Football club competition contested annually by the most recent winners of all European domestic cup competitions....
.

Eurosport is often provided by cable operators as part of their basic package. The channel is popular, and when NTL
NTL Ireland

NTL Communications Limited was a cable television and Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service company in the Republic of Ireland. As of 2005 it was owned by Liberty Global Europe , having been divested by NTL ....
 replaced Eurosport on their Dublin
Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
 analogue system with CNBC, there was outrage among the Irish tabloid
Supermarket tabloid

Supermarket tabloids are national weekly magazines printed on newsprint in tabloid format, specializing in celebrity news, gossip, astrology, and bizarre stories about ordinary people....
 press. In the UK, British Eurosport launched in 1999, replacing Eurosport International on most platforms with some schedule variations and local commentary.

Eurosport is shown in most countries across Europe, often with commentary in the local language, but not necessarily local advertising. Most European countries also have domestic sports channels, which are more likely to show premium events than Eurosport.

Currently there are a number of channels that are broadcast under the Eurosport name: Eurosport (France, British, Deutschland, Italia, Poland, Nordic and Asia Pacific), Eurosport 2 (versions for all Eurosport regions except Asia Pacific) and Eurosport News. Sportitalia
Sportitalia

Sportitalia is an Italy satellite and Digital terrestrial television TV Channel specialized in sport transmission 24 hours a day. Sports broadcast include soccer, basketball, tennis, cycling, volley, motoristic sports, rugby, wrestling; informations about other sports is also provided....
 is also part of the group.

History

Eurosport was launched in 1989 as a joint venture between the European Broadcasting Union
European Broadcasting Union

The European Broadcasting Union is a confederation of 75 broadcasting organisations from 56 countries, and 43 associate broadcasters from a further 25....
 and Sky Television plc
Sky Television plc

For other uses, see Sky Television.Sky Television plc was a four-channel satellite television service launched by Rupert Murdoch's News International on 5 February 1989....
. When Sky merged with BSB
British Satellite Broadcasting

British Satellite Broadcasting was a United Kingdom television company which provided direct broadcast satellite television services to the United Kingdom....
 they decided to focus on the sport's programming on Sky One, and also The Sports Channel
The Sports Channel

The Sports Channel was a United Kingdom television channel, operated by British Satellite Broadcasting, that broadcast live and recorded sporting action, plus sports news and interviews....
, launched by BSB, which was renamed Sky Sports
Sky Sports

Sky Sports is the brand name for a group of sports-oriented television channels operated by the UK's main satellite television pay-TV company, BSkyB....
.

Eurosport was closed down in May 1991 after the competing Screensport
Screensport

Screensport was a pan-European sports television channel. The network was launched as a stand-alone channel in Manchester in 1984 and later acquired by the WH Smith Television Group in 1987....
 channel had filed a complaint to the European Commission
European Commission

The European Commission is the executive of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Treaties of the European Union and the general day-to-day running of the Union....
 over the corporate structure. The channel was however saved when the TF1 Group
TF1 Group

TF1 Group is a France media holding company , the owner of channel TF1, the largest European private TV channel, and Eurosport, the largest European sports network....
 stepped in to replace BSkyB as joint-owners. A new Eurosport channel was able to start its broadcasts the same month. On March 1 1993, the cable and satellite channel Screensport
Screensport

Screensport was a pan-European sports television channel. The network was launched as a stand-alone channel in Manchester in 1984 and later acquired by the WH Smith Television Group in 1987....
 merged with Eurosport. Eurosport eventually came under a French ownership consortium, comprised of the TF1 Group
TF1 Group

TF1 Group is a France media holding company , the owner of channel TF1, the largest European private TV channel, and Eurosport, the largest European sports network....
, Canal+ Group
Canal+ Group

Canal Plus Group is a France film and television studio and distributor. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivendi SA and has a film library in excess of 5,000 films....
 and Havas Images. Since January 2001, the network has been owned entirely by TF1.

Eurosport is currently broadcast in twenty languages; English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
, French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
, German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
, Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
, Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
, Portuguese
Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago....
, Dutch
Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
, Swedish
Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic languages language, spoken by around 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the ?land islands....
, Norwegian
Norwegian language

Norwegian is a North Germanic languages language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language. It is also spoken as a second language among Norwegian-Americans in the United States of America, especially in the central northern states....
, Danish
Danish language

Danish is one of the North Germanic languages , a sub-group of the Germanic languages branch of the Indo-European languages. It is spoken by around 6 million people, mainly in Denmark; the language is also used by the 50,000 Danes in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany where it holds the status of minority language....
, Finnish
Finnish language

Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by Finnish people outside of Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden....
, Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
, Polish
Polish language

Polish , an official language of Poland, has the largest number of speakers of any West Slavic languages. Polish-speakers use the language in a uniform manner through most of Poland, and it has a regular orthography....
, Czech
Czech language

Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czech people worldwide....
, Hungarian
Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic languages unrelated to most other languages in Europe. It is mainly spoken in Hungary and by the Hungarian minorities in the seven neighbouring countries....
, Romanian
Romanian language

Romanian or Daco-Romanian ; self-designation: limba rom?na, ) is a Romance languages spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova....
, Bulgarian
Bulgarian language

Bulgarian is an Indo-European languages, a member of the Slavic languages linguistic group.Bulgarian demonstrates several linguistic innovations that set it apart from all other Slavic languages except Macedonian language, such as the elimination of grammatical case, the development of a suffixed definite article , the lack of a verb infin...
, Serbian
Serbian language

name=Serbian|nativename=|pronunciation=['sr?pski?]|familycolor=Indo-European|map=|states=See below under "Official status", besides that in Croatia and as an immigrant's language spread over Central Europe and Western Europe, as well as Northern America...
, Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
, Turkish
Turkish language

Turkish is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Cyprus, with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and other parts of Eastern Europe....
, Cantonese.

British Eurosport presenters

British Eurosport have live studio presentations of major sporting events and tournaments. Tour de France
Tour de France

The Tour de France is a bicycle racing over more than . It is held every year. It is held in France and visits a bordering country every year. It usually lasts 23 days....
 coverage is presented by James Richardson
James Richardson (television presenter)

James Richardson is the presenter for Setanta Sports' The Friday Football Show and Football Matters alongside Des Lynam and Rebecca Lowe....
 with veteran commentator and journalist David Duffers Duffield.

James Richardson previously hosted the coverage of Serie A football on the Channel from 2002 to 2005 and 2004 UEFA European Football Championship
2004 UEFA European Football Championship

The 2004 UEFA European Football Championship was the twelfth tournament of the UEFA European Football Championship, a quadrennial association football tournament for European nations, and was held in Portugal, for the first time, between 12 June and 4 July 2004....
 with regular guests including Alan Curbishley
Alan Curbishley

Llewellyn Charles 'Alan' Curbishley , is a football manager and former professional player.He has worked in the English Premier League in management roles at Charlton Athletic F.C....
, DJ Spoony
DJ Spoony

DJ Spoony is the stage name of Johnathan Joseph who is a British disk jockey, and former BBC Radio 1 presenter.Spoony's career started on London Underground ....
, former Chelsea FC players Paul Elliott, Ed de Goey, Ray Wilkins
Ray Wilkins

Raymond Colin Wilkins Order of the British Empire , often known as "Butch" Wilkins, is an England former association football player, coach and an occasional television pundit....
, Roberto Di Matteo
Roberto Di Matteo

Roberto Di Matteo is a Swiss Italian former professional Association football and current coach of Milton Keynes Dons F.C. having been unveiled on July 3, 2008....
 & current goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini
Carlo Cudicini

Carlo Cudicini is an Italy Goalkeeper . He is the son of former A.C. Milan goalkeeper Fabio Cudicini and grandson of Ponziana Trieste defender Guglielmo Cudicini ....
, former England International Luther Blissett
Luther Blissett

Luther Blissett may refer to:*Luther Blissett , Jamaican/English footballer*Luther Blissett , a nom de plume used by many artists and authors...
 and European football journalists Gabriele Marcotti
Gabriele Marcotti

Gabriele Marcotti is an Italian sports journalist and presenter who has earned notoriety for his passionate views.Born in Italy and now based in London, he was raised in Chicago, Poland, Germany, New York and Japan....
 & Xavier Rivoire.

Will Vanders is known for his spirited coverage of K-1
K-1

K-1 is a combat sport that combines stand up techniques from Muay Thai, Karate, Taekwondo, Savate, San shou, Kickboxing, traditional Boxing, and other martial arts to determine the single best stand-up fighter in the world ....
 events, and greets the viewer in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Thai to introduce the martial arts show, Fight Club
Eurosport Fight Club

Fight Club is a martial arts TV magazine program which is broadcast by the France based, Pan-European broadcasting sports channel Eurosport....
 on Monday nights.

Studio presentation for the Australian Open
Australian Open

The Australian Open is the first of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments held each year. The tournament is held each January at Melbourne Park....
, French Open, U.S. Open (tennis)
U.S. Open (tennis)

The US Open tennis tournament is one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, first contested in 1881. The tournament is chronologically the fourth and final Grand Slam tennis tournament each year....
 and WTA Tour Championships
WTA Tour Championships

The WTA Tour Championships is a tennis tournament played annually at the end of the season for the top-ranked players on the Women's Tennis Association tour....
 on British Eurosport is hosted by Annabel Croft
Annabel Croft

Annabel Croft is a former tennis player and current television presenter. Her tennis career never really took off after she won Junior Wimbledon in 1984....
 with Hawk-Eye
Hawk-Eye

Hawk-Eye is a computer system used in cricket, tennis and other sports to visually track the path of the ball and display a record of its actual path as graphic image....
 presented by Former British number 2 Jason Goodall.

British Eurosport covers the snooker
Snooker

Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a large baize-covered snooker table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions....
 season including ranking events not broadcast by BBC Television
BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the BBC which began in 1932. The British Broadcasting Corporation has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927....
 including the Malta Cup, Northern Ireland Trophy
Northern Ireland Trophy

The Northern Ireland Trophy is a professional snooker tournament. It began as an invitational event introduced for the Snooker season 2005/2006 and was contested by 20 players....
 and China Open
China Open (snooker)

The China Open is a professional snooker tournament. It is one of a number of Snooker world rankings.The event was revived for the Snooker season 2004/2005 due to the increasing popularity of snooker in China....
.

British Eurosport has also three figure skating commentators: former Winter Olympic Games competitors Chris Howarth & Nicky Slater, and veteran commentator Simon Reed - brother of the late actor Oliver Reed
Oliver Reed

Robert Oliver Reed was an England actor known for his burly screen presence. Reed exemplified his real-life macho image in "tough-guy" roles. His films include Oliver! , Women in Love, Hannibal Brooks, The Triple Echo, The Devils, The Three Musketeers , Tommy , Castaway and Gladiator ....
.

In 2008, Eurosport launched an online subscription service (called the Eurosport player) that allows Internet users to watch both Eurosport and Eurosport 2 live, plus additional coverage not available via broadcast. During the 2009 Australian Open, the Internet player offered coverage from five courts. On the 10th February British Eurosport started to broadcast most of its programming in the 16:9 'widescreen' ratio .

Eurosport HD

On May 25 2008, a HD
High-definition television

High-definition television is a digital television broadcasting system with higher than traditional television systems . HDTV is digitally broadcast; the earliest implementations used analog broadcasting, but today digital television signals are used, requiring less Bandwidth due to digital video compression....
 simulcast
Simulcast

Simulcast is a portmanteau of "simultaneous broadcast", and refers to programs or events Broadcasting across more than one Mass media, or more than one service on the same medium, at the same time....
 version of the main channel launched - the first event covered in HD being the 2008 French Open
2008 French Open

The 2008 French Open was a tennis tournament played on Tennis court#Clay courts. It was the 107th edition of the French Open, and the second Grand Slam event of the year....
 at Roland Garros.

On July 15 2008, Eurosport HD was launched on Sky+ HD broadcasting the Tour de France
Tour de France

The Tour de France is a bicycle racing over more than . It is held every year. It is held in France and visits a bordering country every year. It usually lasts 23 days....
 live. On the 25th July, Eurosport HD was also launched via the Sky Italia
Sky Italia

SKY Italia is an Italy digital television satellite television platform owned by News Corporation launched the 31 july 2003. It is similar in many ways to British Sky Broadcasting's Sky Digital in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, and like that network it is a major sports broadcaster....
 platform.

Eurosport News

A sports news channel launched on September 1 2000, featuring live scores, highlights, breaking news and commentary. The service combines video, text and graphics with the screen being divided into 4 sections - a video section that displays highlights and news bulletins, a breaking news ticker at the bottom and a scoring section that gives in-depth analysis of results and game stats.

Eurosport 2

A supplementary channel featuring more live sports events, programming and news updates. Eurosport 2 launched on January 10, 2005 and is currently available in 35 countries, broadcasting in 10 different languages English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
, French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
, Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
, German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
, Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
, Hungarian
Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic languages unrelated to most other languages in Europe. It is mainly spoken in Hungary and by the Hungarian minorities in the seven neighbouring countries....
, Russian
Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
, Polish
Polish language

Polish , an official language of Poland, has the largest number of speakers of any West Slavic languages. Polish-speakers use the language in a uniform manner through most of Poland, and it has a regular orthography....
, Romanian
Romanian language

Romanian or Daco-Romanian ; self-designation: limba rom?na, ) is a Romance languages spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova....
, Serbian
Serbian language

name=Serbian|nativename=|pronunciation=['sr?pski?]|familycolor=Indo-European|map=|states=See below under "Official status", besides that in Croatia and as an immigrant's language spread over Central Europe and Western Europe, as well as Northern America...
 and Turkish
Turkish language

Turkish is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Cyprus, with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and other parts of Eastern Europe....
.

Eurosport 2 is considered "the new generation sports channel" - dedicated to team sports, alternative sports, discovery and entertainment including basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
, National Lacrosse League
National Lacrosse League

The National Lacrosse League is the league of men's box lacrosse in North America. It currently has 12 teams; 3 in Canada and 9 in the United States....
, Arena Football League
Arena Football League

The Arena Football League was founded in 1987 in sports as an American football arena football. The AFL's attendance increased dramatically over its last few years, rising to an average of 12,415 people per game in 2007, and 12,957 per game in 2008, but the increases were accompanied by greatly increased expenses and debt, leading to the can...
, surfing
Surfing

Surfing refers to a person or boat riding down a wave and thereby gathering speed from the downward movement. Most commonly, the term is used for a surface water sports in which the person surfing is carried along the face of a breaking ocean surface wave standing on a surfboard....
, Handball Champions League
CEV Champions League

The CEV Champions League or Indesit European Champions League is the top official competition for men's Volleyball clubs of Europe and takes place every year....
 and more.

Motorsport

Eurosport is a partner with KSO, the organizers of the FIA World Touring Car Championship
World Touring Car Championship

The World Touring Car Championship is an international touring car racing championship organized by the F?d?ration Internationale de l'Automobile....
 (WTCC). Eurosport broadcasts every WTCC race live. Before 2006, both the WTCC and the FIA GT Championship
FIA GT Championship

The FIA GT Championship is a sports car racing series organized by the St?phane Ratel Organisation at the behest of the F?d?ration Internationale de l'Automobile ....
 are broadcast by Eurosport. But Eurosport requested SRO, the FIA GT Championship organizers, to shorten their race from 3 hours to 2 hours. SRO refused and since then it has not been on the bill with the WTCC.

Ironically, after a year looking for European broadcasters for their 3 hour races, the SRO decided that for 2007, the FIA GT Championship races will be shortened to 2 hours.

See also

  • North American Sports Network
    North American Sports Network

    ESPN America is a European sports network, focusing on professional sports of the United States and Canada. Originally launched in December 2002 as NASN , ESPN America broadcasts a selection of top North American professional and collegiate sports leagues 24 hours a day on digital cable television and digital satellite television tel...
  • Sports channel
    Sports channel

    Sports channels are television specialty channels broadcast sporting events, usually live, and when not broadcasting events, sports news and other related programming....
  • Broadcasting of sports events
    Broadcasting of sports events

    The broadcasting of sports events is the coverage of sports on television, radio and other broadcasting mediums. It usually involves one or more sports commentators describing the events as they happen....
  • Euronews
    EuroNews

    Euronews is a multilingual and pan-European television news channel launched on January 1, 1993 in Lyon. It covers world news from a European perspective, in many languages....
  • Fight Club
    Eurosport Fight Club

    Fight Club is a martial arts TV magazine program which is broadcast by the France based, Pan-European broadcasting sports channel Eurosport....


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