Ruutu+ Urheilu 1 is a package of
Finnish
Finnish may refer to:
* Something or someone from, or related to Finland
* Culture of Finland
* Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland
* Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people
* Finnish cuisine
See also ...
sports-oriented
television
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channels owned and operated by
Nelonen
Nelonen () is a Finnish commercial television channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV in 1990 on the HTV cable network (now part of DNA Welho), and changed its name first to PTV4. On June 1, 1997, the channel expand ...
.
The story of the channel originally goes all the way back to the launch of digital terrestrial television on 27 August 2001, when among the first DTT channels the free-to-air sports channel
Urheilukanava was launched. Its sister channel Urheilu+kanava was launched in June 2007 as part of the
PlusTV
PlusTV was a Finnish digital terrestrial television distributor owned by Finnish telecommunications company DNA. It is one of two pay television distributors in the Finnish terrestrial network, the other being Canal Digital.
The package started ...
package. It broadcast as an encrypted pay channel, as opposed to its parent channel, which was free-to-air. Urheilu+kanava was replaced by Nelonen Sport Pro in February 2010 and Urheilukanava became Nelonen Sport at the same time. Nelonen Sport Pro was renamed to Nelonen Pro 1 and Nelonen Sport to
Nelonen Pro 2
Ruutu+ Urheilu 2 is a Finnish TV channel that specializes in sports. ''Urheilukanava'' was launched on August 27, 2001 and it was especially popular among Finnish football fans since the channel made it possible to watch both high standard domest ...
in January 2011. In February,
Nelonen Pro 2
Ruutu+ Urheilu 2 is a Finnish TV channel that specializes in sports. ''Urheilukanava'' was launched on August 27, 2001 and it was especially popular among Finnish football fans since the channel made it possible to watch both high standard domest ...
was encrypted.
Current programming
Ice hockey
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SM-liiga
The SM-liiga (marketed as just Liiga from 2013 on), (Finnish for ''League'') colloquially called the Finnish Elite League in English or FM-ligan in Swedish, is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. It is one of the six founding leagu ...
Football
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Serie
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People with the name
* Caroline Series (born 1951), English mathematician, daughter of George Series
* George Series (1920–1995), English physicist
Arts, entertainment, and media
Music
* Series, the ordered sets used in ...
A
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Veikkausliiga
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Golf
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PGA Tour
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*
LPGA Tour
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*
European Tour
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*
Major championships
Other sports
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NFL
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*
FIBA
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*
Boxing
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*
MotoGP
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*
NASCAR
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*
Speedway
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*Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a motor raceway in Speedway, Indiana
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Formula 3
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*
FIA GT Series
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*
Euroleague of basketball
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Salibandyliiga
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of
floorball
Floorball is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in each team. Men and women play indoors with sticks and a plastic ball with holes. Matches are played in three twenty-minute periods. The sport of bandy also played a role ...
*
Superpesis league of
Finnish baseball
Former programming
When the channel started out as Urheilu+kanava, they showed sports such as
NASCAR
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,
Campeonato Brasileiro,
Campeonato Paulista
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(first time these sports were shown live in Finnish television),
Germany national football team
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,
UEFA Europa League
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,
FA Cup
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Spanish La Liga
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,
Copa del Rey
The Campeonato de España–Copa de Su Majestad el Rey, commonly known as Copa del Rey or simply La Copa and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–36) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–76), is an annual knockout footbal ...
,
German Bundesliga
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,
DFB-Pokal
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,
DFB-Ligapokal
The DFL-Ligapokal (, officially Premiere Ligapokal , previously DFB-Ligapokal ) or the ''German League Cup'' was a German football competition that took place before the start of the Bundesliga season, featuring the top five teams of the previous ...
,
Major League Soccer
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,
NBA
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,
WNBA,
Nordic Trophy and the
Swatch FIVB World Tour
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of beach volley. It also had its own news service, Urheilu+Studio, which was similar to
Nelonen Sport
Ruutu+ Urheilu 2 is a Finnish TV channel that specializes in sports. ''Urheilukanava'' was launched on August 27, 2001 and it was especially popular among Finnish football fans since the channel made it possible to watch both high standard domes ...
's ''Studio'', but ran from 1 hour to 2,5 hours from Tuesdays to Fridays.
References
External links
www.nelonenpro.fi/
Television channels in Finland
Television channels and stations established in 2007
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