Viasat Sport
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Nordic countries
The Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic which consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland...
, Baltic
Baltic countries
The term Baltic states refers to the Baltic territories which gained independence from the Russian Empire in the wake of World War I: primarily the contiguous trio of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ; Finland also fell within the scope of the term after initially gaining independence in the 1920s.The...
and Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...
an countries owned by Modern Times Group
Modern Times Group
Modern Times Group is a Swedish media company. MTG was formed out of the media holdings of investment company Kinnevik, which in 1997 was distributed to the company stockholders. Among the assets were Viasat and Metro International...
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Viasat Sport is also the name of one tv-channel in Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
, Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...
and the Baltics. Its main competitors are CANAL+ Sport
C More Entertainment
C More Entertainment is a premium television company, operating under the banner CANAL+, that targets the Nordic Countries and with one separate channel in Sweden ....
and Eurosport
Eurosport
Eurosport is a pan-European television sport network operated by French broadcaster TF1 Group. The network of channels are available in 59 countries, in 20 different languages providing viewers with European and international sporting events...
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Sports Rights
- American FootballAmerican footballAmerican football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
- National Football LeagueNational Football LeagueThe National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
- National Football League
- BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
- EuroleagueEuroleagueEuroleague Basketball, commonly known as the Euroleague, is the highest level tier and most important professional club basketball competition in Europe, with teams from up to 18 different countries, members of FIBA Europe. For sponsorship reasons, for five seasons starting with 2010–2011, it is...
- Euroleague
- GolfGolfGolf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
- PGA TourPGA TourThe PGA Tour is the organizer of the main men's professional golf tours in the United States and North America...
- PGA Tour
- Ice hockeyIce hockeyIce hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
- HockeyAllsvenskan (Swedish second division)
- Ice Hockey World ChampionshipsIce Hockey World ChampionshipsThe Ice Hockey World Championships are an annual ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation . First officially held at the 1920 Summer Olympics, it is the sport's highest profile annual international tournament. The IIHF was created in 1908 while the European...
- GET-ligaenGET-ligaenGET-ligaen is the premier Norwegian ice hockey league, organised by the Norwegian Ice Hockey Federation. The league was known as 1. divisjon until 1990, when it was reorganized and named Eliteserien . That name was held until 2004 when cable TV company UPC became main sponsor...
(Norwegian first division) - World Cup of HockeyWorld Cup of HockeyThe World Cup of Hockey is an international ice hockey tournament. Inaugurated in 1996, it is the successor to the previous Canada Cup, which ran from 1976 to 1991...
- Kontinental Hockey LeagueKontinental Hockey LeagueThe Kontinental Hockey League is an international professional ice hockey league in Eurasia founded in 2008. As of 2009, it is ranked as the strongest hockey league in Europe....
- Motorsports
- Formula OneFormula OneFormula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
- Indy Racing League
- NASCARNASCARThe National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is a family-owned and -operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto racing sports events. It was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1947–48. As of 2009, the CEO for the company is Brian France, grandson of the late Bill France Sr...
- Formula One
- Association football
- Coppa ItaliaCoppa ItaliaThe Coppa Italia is an Italian football annual cup competition. Its first edition was held in 1922, but the second champions were not crowned until 1936. Roma and Juventus lead the way with nine wins. Roma has contested more finals, 16, while Torino and Juventus follow with 13...
- English League CupFootball League CupThe Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup or, from current sponsorship, the Carling Cup, is an English association football competition. Like the FA Cup, it is played on a knockout basis...
- EredivisieEredivisieThe Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA....
(Dutch first division) - FA CupFA CupThe Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world. The "FA Cup" is run by and named after The Football Association and usually refers to the English men's...
- Football League ChampionshipFootball League ChampionshipThe Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...
- Italian Serie ASerie ASerie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...
(only home matches of some teams) - Ligue 1Ligue 1Ligue 1 , is the French professional league for association football clubs. It is the country's primary football competition and serves as the top division of the French football league system. Ligue 1 is one of two divisions making up the Ligue de Football Professionnel, the other being Ligue 2....
(French first division) - SAS Ligaen (Danish first division)
- Scottish Premier LeagueScottish Premier LeagueThe Scottish Premier League , also known as the SPL , is a professional league competition for association football clubs in Scotland...
- UEFA Champions LeagueUEFA Champions LeagueThe UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...
- UEFA CupUEFA CupThe UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...
- Coppa Italia
Channels
Viasat Sport was launched as a pan-Nordic channel in 1999. In January 2002, a dedicated Danish channel, Viasat Sport DenmarkTV 2 Sport (Denmark)
TV 2 Sport is a Danish sports channel operated as a joint-venture between Danish TV 2 and Swedish Modern Times Group.MTG launched a dedicated Danish version of its Viasat Sport channel in January 2002...
, launched and replaced the pan-Nordic version in Denmark.
1 February 2004, Viasat launched two new sport channels; Viasat Sport 2
Viasat Sport 2
Viasat Sport 2 was a Scandinavian soccer channel. The channel started February 1, 2004 together with Viasat Sport 3. Viasat Sport 2 has the rights to Manchester United TV and Chelsea TV...
and Viasat Sport 3
Viasat Sport 3
Viasat Sport 3 was a Scandinavian sports channel mainly showing combat sports, auto racing and American football. The channel started on 1 February 2004 together with Viasat Sport 2 The main sports in the summer are NASCAR, Indy Racing League, Boxing, Football club TV.Viasat Sport 3 also have the...
. The two existing channels were re-branded as Viasat Sport 1
Viasat Sport 1
Viasat Sport is a group of sports channels broadcasting from the United Kingdom. The channels are targeting the Scandinavian and Baltic countries, though the primary market of the channels is Sweden. This article concentrates on Viasat Sport channels in Sweden....
. During the autumn the two new channels were refocused, turning Viasat Sport 2 into a dedicated soccer channel and Viasat Sport 3 becoming a channel for motor and contact sports.
In April 2005, a "news channel" called Viasat Sport 24
Viasat Sport 24
Viasat Sport 24 was a Scandinavian sports channel. The channel started April 24, 2005. Viasat Sport 24 was showing several sports events in different squares on one television channel 24 hours a day complete with sports results, news and betting information. It was replaced by the new sports...
was launched.
In the end of 2005, Viasat Sport 1 in Norway was replaced by SportN, a joint venture with government-owned public broadcaster NRK .
In January 2007, a dedicated golf channel, Viasat Golf
Viasat Golf
Viasat Golf is a pan-Nordic television channel dedicated to broadcasting golf tournaments and golf-related programmes.The channel was launched in January 2007, after MTG had acquired lots of rights for live broadcasting of golf tournaments, such as the US PGA Tour, the PGA European Tour, the...
, was launched replacing Viasat Sport 24
Viasat Sport 24
Viasat Sport 24 was a Scandinavian sports channel. The channel started April 24, 2005. Viasat Sport 24 was showing several sports events in different squares on one television channel 24 hours a day complete with sports results, news and betting information. It was replaced by the new sports...
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11 April 2007, Viasat Sport 1 in Denmark was replaced by TV 2 Sport
TV 2 Sport (Denmark)
TV 2 Sport is a Danish sports channel operated as a joint-venture between Danish TV 2 and Swedish Modern Times Group.MTG launched a dedicated Danish version of its Viasat Sport channel in January 2002...
:, a joint venture with state-owned broadcaster TV 2
TV 2 (Denmark)
TV 2 is a publicly owned television station in Denmark based in Odense. The station began broadcasting on 1 October 1988, thereby ending the television monopoly previously exercised by the Danmarks Radio ....
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In early 2008, Viasat launched their first high-definition sports channels: TV 2 Sport HD
TV 2 Sport HD
TV 2 Sport HD is the high-definition television sister channel to Danish television channel TV 2 Sport. It launched on January 2, 2008....
for Denmark and Viasat Sport HD för Norway and Sweden.
On October 17, 2008, the Viasat Sport channels went through a major overhaul which saw Viasat Sport 2 and 3 disappear in Sweden and Norway. They were replaced by Viasat Fotboll
Viasat Fotboll
Viasat Fotboll is a Swedish television channel dedicated to football.The channel was launched on October 17, 2008, and became the primary home to most of Viasat's football broadcasts, which at the time included UEFA Champions League, 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification, the FA Cup, Football League...
(in Sweden), Viasat Sport (in Norge) and Viasat Motor
Viasat Motor
Viasat Motor is a Scandinavian Motor sports channel that launched on 17 October 2008.Events broadcast on the channel include Formula One, NASCAR, GP2, WRC and MotoGP.-External links:* *...
(both countries). The Swedish Viasat Sport 1 was renamed Viasat Sport. Viasat Sport HD continued to be available in both Norway and Sweden, and Viasat Golf was still available in all four Scandinavian countries.
Viasat Sport 2 and 3 continued in Denmark, Finland and the Baltics until January 6, 2009. On January 7, 2009, Viasat Sport Baltic channel was launched in Baltic states. Viasat Golf also became available in the region. Finland and Denmark didn't receive any replacements for Viasat Sport 2 and 3. In Bulgaria the channel is called 'Nova Sport'.
Denmark
Channel lineup:- TV 2 SportTV 2 Sport (Denmark)TV 2 Sport is a Danish sports channel operated as a joint-venture between Danish TV 2 and Swedish Modern Times Group.MTG launched a dedicated Danish version of its Viasat Sport channel in January 2002...
(joint venture with TV 2TV 2 (Denmark)TV 2 is a publicly owned television station in Denmark based in Odense. The station began broadcasting on 1 October 1988, thereby ending the television monopoly previously exercised by the Danmarks Radio ....
) - TV 2 Sport HDTV 2 Sport HDTV 2 Sport HD is the high-definition television sister channel to Danish television channel TV 2 Sport. It launched on January 2, 2008....
(joint venture with TV 2TV 2 (Denmark)TV 2 is a publicly owned television station in Denmark based in Odense. The station began broadcasting on 1 October 1988, thereby ending the television monopoly previously exercised by the Danmarks Radio ....
) - Viasat GolfViasat GolfViasat Golf is a pan-Nordic television channel dedicated to broadcasting golf tournaments and golf-related programmes.The channel was launched in January 2007, after MTG had acquired lots of rights for live broadcasting of golf tournaments, such as the US PGA Tour, the PGA European Tour, the...
- Viasat Xtra
Finland
Channel lineup:- Viasat GolfViasat GolfViasat Golf is a pan-Nordic television channel dedicated to broadcasting golf tournaments and golf-related programmes.The channel was launched in January 2007, after MTG had acquired lots of rights for live broadcasting of golf tournaments, such as the US PGA Tour, the PGA European Tour, the...
- Viasat Sport Sweden
- Viasat Sport HD
Norway
New channel lineup as of 15 September 2008:- Viasat FotballViasat FotballViasat Fotball is a Norwegian-paid TV owned by Viasat. This is a sport channel which broadcasts all the sports from around the world. Sports shown on this channel are FA CUP, UEFA Champions League,Europa Liga, Coca Cola Championships, some League 1 matches from England as well as Friendly matches...
- Viasat GolfViasat GolfViasat Golf is a pan-Nordic television channel dedicated to broadcasting golf tournaments and golf-related programmes.The channel was launched in January 2007, after MTG had acquired lots of rights for live broadcasting of golf tournaments, such as the US PGA Tour, the PGA European Tour, the...
- Viasat MotorViasat MotorViasat Motor is a Scandinavian Motor sports channel that launched on 17 October 2008.Events broadcast on the channel include Formula One, NASCAR, GP2, WRC and MotoGP.-External links:* *...
- Viasat SportViasat Sport (Norway)Viasat Sport is a Norwegian television channel.The channel launched on 17 October 2008, when Viasat re-tooled their sports channels in Norway and Sweden...
- Viasat Sport HD
Sweden
New channel lineup as of 16 September 2009:- Viasat FotbollViasat FotbollViasat Fotboll is a Swedish television channel dedicated to football.The channel was launched on October 17, 2008, and became the primary home to most of Viasat's football broadcasts, which at the time included UEFA Champions League, 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification, the FA Cup, Football League...
- Viasat GolfViasat GolfViasat Golf is a pan-Nordic television channel dedicated to broadcasting golf tournaments and golf-related programmes.The channel was launched in January 2007, after MTG had acquired lots of rights for live broadcasting of golf tournaments, such as the US PGA Tour, the PGA European Tour, the...
- Viasat HockeyViasat HockeyViasat Hockey is a sports channel that is broadcasting from the United Kingdom, primarily targeting Sweden but also available in Finland and Norway . Broadcasting was commenced on September 1, 2009, at the start of the 2009 ice hockey season...
- Viasat MotorViasat MotorViasat Motor is a Scandinavian Motor sports channel that launched on 17 October 2008.Events broadcast on the channel include Formula One, NASCAR, GP2, WRC and MotoGP.-External links:* *...
- Viasat Sport
- Viasat Sport HD
Baltics
New channel lineup as of January 7, 2009- Viasat Sport BalticViasat Sport BalticViasat Sport Baltic is a TV sports channel available in the Baltic States. The channel was launched January 7, 2009. Along with Viasat Golf it replaced Viasat Sport 2 and Viasat Sport 3 for viewers on the Viasat platform in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania...
- Viasat GolfViasat GolfViasat Golf is a pan-Nordic television channel dedicated to broadcasting golf tournaments and golf-related programmes.The channel was launched in January 2007, after MTG had acquired lots of rights for live broadcasting of golf tournaments, such as the US PGA Tour, the PGA European Tour, the...
- Viasat Sport EastViasat Sport EastViasat Sport East is a television channel available in Russia, the CIS countries and the Baltic states. The channel heavily features American sports such as the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball....