Eurosport 1 is a

French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...

television sports network channel which is a division of

Eurosport Eurosport is a group of pay television networks in Europe and parts of Asia. Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery through its international sports unit, it operates two main channels— Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2—across most of its territorie ...

and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. Discovery took a 20% minority interest share in December 2012, and became majority shareholder in the Eurosport venture with TF1 in January 2014, taking a 51% share of the company, On 22 July 2015 Discovery agreed to acquire TF1's remaining 49% stake in the venture. The channel is available in 73 countries, in 21 languages providing viewers with European and international sporting events. Eurosport first launched on European satellites on 5 February 1989. On 13 November 2015 Eurosport changed the name of its main channel into Eurosport 1.

Sporting events

Eurosport provides viewers with European and international sporting events, certain events are not available in a particular country due to Eurosport not being the rights holder in that territory.

Football

UEFA Nations League The UEFA Nations League is a biennial international football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the member associations of UEFA, the sport's European governing body. The first tournament began in September 2018. The ...

(Denmark only) *European Qualifiers (Denmark only) ** UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying ** 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification *UEFA National Team Friendlies (Denmark only) * UEFA Women's Champions League (exclude final from 2018 to 2019 season) * DFB-Pokal (Poland only) * Hero I-league (Only for Europe and central Asia) * Ekstraklasa (except Germany and the UK) *

Eliteserien Eliteserien () is a Norwegian professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Norwegian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotio ...

* Coupe de France (France Only) * CAF African Cup of Nations (only for Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and UK)

Basketball

* EuroLeague (only for Ireland, Italy, and UK) * EuroCup (only for Ireland, Italy, Poland, and UK) *

Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Cop ...

(Italy only) *

Coppa Italia The ("Italy Cup") is an annual knockout cup competition in Italian football organized by the FIGC until the 2009–10 season and the Lega Serie A ever since. History The beginning of the tournament was turbulent, due to the complexity of ...

(Italy only) * Supercoppa Italiana (Italy only)

Motorsport

Eurosport Events is the Eurosport group's world-class sporting events management/promotion/production division, which promotes the FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC), the FIA European Touring Car Cup and the FIA European Rally Championship. Eurosport broadcasts every WTCC race live and every ERC rally either live or with daily highlights. Eurosport Events (formerly known as 'KSO Kigema Sports Organisation Ltd') was also the promoter of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, a rival rallying series to the World Rally Championship. The IRC ceased at the end of the 2012 season, with Eurosport taking over series promotion of the ERC from 2013. Since 2008, the Eurosport Group has also been broadcasting the annual

24 Hours of Le Mans The 24 Hours of Le Mans (french: link=no, 24 Heures du Mans) is an endurance-focused sports car race held annually near the town of Le Mans, France. It is the world's oldest active endurance racing event. Unlike fixed-distance races whose ...

in full. Eurosport airs MotoGP and Superbike World Championship in France and Germany, and has Spanish broadcasting rights for

NASCAR The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock car racing. The privately owned company was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1948, and ...

and IndyCar Series. On 29 September 2015, Eurosport acquired the Portuguese broadcasting rights for

Formula One Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The World Drivers' Championship, ...

between 2016 and 2018.

Other sports

Other sporting events shown on Eurosport include the Dakar Rally, Monte Carlo Rally, athletics events such as World Athletics Championships and the European Athletics Championships, cycling events such as the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España, tennis events including the French Open, Australian Open, Wimbledon (only for Belgium and shared coverage with the BBC in the UK) and the US Open, World Championship Snooker, ICC World Twenty20,

ICC Cricket World Cup The Cricket World Cup (officially known as ICC Men's Cricket World Cup) is the international championship of One Day International (ODI) cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), e ...

, ICC Champions Trophy, Sudirman Cup, All England Open Badminton Championships,

Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the only fully professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body and is responsible for controlling ...

, basketball events such as Eurocup Basketball and Olympiakos Piraeus home matches in the Greek Basket League (only for Poland),

PGA Tour The PGA Tour (stylized in all capital letters as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of professional golf tours in the United States and North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournaments also ...

(only for Italy), winter sports, skating and surfing. In June 2015 it was announced that Eurosport had secured the pan-European rights (except Russia) to the winter and summer

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a multi ...

between 2018 and 2024.

Feeds

In Europe, Eurosport 1 is generally available in basic cable and satellite television packages. Since 1999, Eurosport 1 provides various opt-out services providing more relevant sporting content specific to language, advertising and commentary needs. Eurosport offers a stand-alone channel which provides a standardised version of the channel (Eurosport International in English). Alongside this there are also local Eurosport channels in France, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Poland,

Nordic region The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or ''Norden''; lit. 'the North') are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic. It includes the sovereign states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Swe ...

, Benelux region, and Asia Pacific. These channels offer greater sporting content with local sporting events, while also utilising the existing pan-European feed. The German version of Eurosport is the only one available

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscripti ...

on European digital

satellite television Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location. The signals are received via an outdoor parabolic antenna com ...

. Eurosport 1 is currently broadcast in twenty one languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Russian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Greek, Turkish and Persian. On 9 March 2022, Discovery Inc. closed Eurosport 1 in Russia due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

HD feed

A high-definition

simulcast Simulcast (a portmanteau of simultaneous broadcast) is the broadcasting of programmes/programs or events across more than one resolution, bitrate or medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at exactly the same time (that is, simul ...

feed of Eurosport started broadcasting on 25 May 2008. The first event covered in HD was the 2008 French Open at Roland Garros. On 13 November 2015 it changed its name to Eurosport 1 HD.

Availability

Terrestrial

* Boxer (Sweden): Channel 40 * Digitenne (Netherlands): Channel 18 (HD) * Lattelecom (Latvia): Channel 19 * PlusTV (Finland): Channel 45 * Digital terrestrial television (Germany): ** Channel 28 (Hanover) **Channel 36 (Cologne/Bonn) **Channel 46 (Hamburg) **Channel 52 (Ruhr area) **Channel 56 (Berlin) **Channel 60 (Braunschweig) **Channel 257 (Italy)

Satellite

Astra 19.2°E Astra 19.2°E is the name for the group of Astra communications satellites co-located at the 19.2°East orbital position in the Clarke Belt that are owned and operated by SES based in Betzdorf, Luxembourg. Astra 19.2°E used to be commonly ...

: 12.227 GHz H / 27500 (German, FTA) * Allente (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden): * Alma TV (Russia): Channel 60 * A1 Bulgaria (Bulgaria): Channel 115 * Antik Sat (Czech Republic): Channel 69 * Big Bang TV (Russia): *

Bulsatcom Bulsatcom is Bulgarian satellite television, internet & mobile operator, founded in 2000 as the first DVB-S operator in the country. The company is operated from Sofia and Stara Zagora. Since 2009 it has entered the internet service provisioning m ...

(Bulgaria): Channel 18 * Canal+ (France): Channel 63 * Canal+ Caraïbes (Overseas France): Channel 124 *

DigitAlb DigitAlb is an Albanian media, digital satellite and terrestrial TV platform based in Tirana, Albania. The TV platform began terrestrial broadcasts in July 2004, and satellite broadcasts by the end of that year. At the same time, DigitAlb beg ...

(Albania): Channel *

Digiturk Digiturk is a Turkish satellite television provider founded in 1999, with services starting in mid-2000. They provide both national television channels and their own channels, national radio, and music streams of different genres. Digiturk is als ...

(Turkey): Channel 71 * Direct One (Hungary): Channel 122 *

D-Smart D-Smart is a Turkish satellite television provider launched in 2007. It launched high-definition television High-definition television (HD or HDTV) describes a television system which provides a substantially higher image resolution than the pr ...

(Turkey): Channel 75 *

Focus Sat Focus Sat is a direct broadcast satellite television platform owned by M7 Group (Canal+ Luxembourg S.a.r.l.), a subsidiary of Canal+ Group, in Romania. At the beginning, Focus Sat Romania was owned by the majority shareholder Focus Sat Limited ...

(Czech Republic): Channel 67 * Fotelka (Czech Republic): Channel 101 * HD+ (Germany): * HD Austria (Austria): * Home 3 (Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia): * M7 Deutschland (Germany): * MEO (Portugl): Channel 36 *

Movistar Plus+ Movistar Plus+ (formerly Movistar+) is the trade name of the subscription platform for digital television owned by Telefónica, which operates in Spain. The service is distributed via optical fiber and ADSL and as well as with satellites such as ...

(Spain): Channel 66 * M:Sat TV (Serbia): Channel 39 * NOS (Portugl): Channel 143 * Nova (Greece): Channel 112 * Neosat (Bulgaria): * Orange Polska (Poland): Channel 111 * Otau TV (Russia): * Platforma Canal+ (Poland): Channel 113 *

Polsat Box Cyfrowy Polsat S.A. (; English: ''Digital Polsat''), trading as Polsat Box is a Polish DTH satellite TV platform. It is the fifth-largest digital platform in Europe and the largest in Central and Eastern Europe. Polsat Box has 3.47 million subscr ...

(Poland): Channel 120 * Sky (UK & Ireland): Channel 410 *

Sky Italia Sky Italia S.r.l. is an Italian satellite television platform owned by the American media conglomerate Comcast. Sky Italia also broadcasts three national free-to-air television channels: TV8, Cielo and Sky TG24. As of 2018, following an agre ...

(Italy): 210 * Telly (Czech Republic): Channel 29 * Tivibu (Turkey): Channel 71 * Telemach (Slovenia): *

Total TV Total TV may refer to: * TotalTV, a Serbian television service * Total TV, Inc., a defunct American regional cable television company started by Jim Fitzgerald in 1964 and discontinued in 1998 *TV total, a German TV show * Total TV (India), an Indi ...

(Bosnia and Herzegovina): Channel 180 *

(Croatia): Channel 120 *

(North Macedonia): Channel 170 *

(Serbia): Channel 170 *

T-Home T-Mobile is the brand name used by some of the mobile communications subsidiaries of the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom AG in the Czech Republic ( T-Mobile Czech Republic), Poland ( T-Mobile Polska), the United States (T-Mobi ...

(Hungary): Channel 47 * Viasat Ukraine (Ukraine): * Vivacom (Bulgaria): Channel 233 (SD) *

yes Yes or YES may refer to: * An affirmative particle in the English language; see yes and no Education * YES Prep Public Schools, Houston, Texas, US * YES (Your Extraordinary Saturday), a learning program from the Minnesota Institute for Talent ...

(Israel): Channel 61

Cable

Cablelink Cablelink (formerly known as Conception Pay TV Network) is a subscription-based cable antenna television system operator and broadband Internet service provider in the Philippines which commenced its CATV operation in 1995. It is owned and operate ...

(Philippines): Channel 55 (SD) * Caiway (Netherlands): Channel 20 (HD) * Com Hem (Sweden): Channel 10, Channel 102 (HD) * CTH (Thailand): Channel 67 * DELTA (Netherlands): Channel 32 (HD) *

Destiny Cable Destiny Cable (formerly Global Destiny Cable and stylized as DESTINY CABLE) was a direct-to-home cable television subscription service based in Quezon City. Destiny Cable was the 2nd largest cable TV provider in the Philippines. It was owned b ...

(Philippines): Channel 214 (Digital) * Digi TV (Hungary): Channel 33 *

GMM Z GMM Z is a Thai set-top box distributor and former satellite television operator owned by GMM Grammy. Launched on 1 November 2011 as 1-Sky, It was operating as a KU band and C band set-top box distributor and Pay TV operator. It changed its name ...

(Thailand): Channel 372 * Hot (Israel): Channel 49 * Kabel Deutschland (Germany): Channel 402 (SD) / 446 (HD) * Kabel Noord (Netherlands): Channel 300 (HD) * Lattelecom: Channel 401, Channel 403 (HD) * Nacional'nye kabel'nye seti (Russia): Channel 54 *

Naxoo Naxoo is a Swiss cable television company owned by 022 Télégenève. The Company also provides broadband internet and telephone services in Switzerland. Launched in Geneva in 1986, ''Naxoo'' offers a mixture of Swiss and foreign TV channels, bo ...

: Channel 163 (Deutsch), Channel 248 (Spanish) * Nowo (Portugal): Channel 67, Channel 216 (HD) * NOS (Portugal): Channel 26, Channel 27 (HD) *

Numericable Numericable was a major French cable operator and telecommunications services company. Numericable was originally created in 2007 from the merger between former competitors Noos and NC Numericable networks. Numericable Group SA was founded in Aug ...

(France): Channel 151 (HD) *

RCS&RDS Digi Communications, also known as RCS & RDS, is a Romanian telecommunication holding company operating in Romania, Hungary, Spain and Italy. Digi was founded by Zoltán Teszári, who is the majority owner, and it is listed on the Buchar ...

(Romania): Channel 23 * Serbia Broadband: Channel 267, Channel 136 (HD) *

Sky Cable Sky Cable (stylized as SKYcable) is a cable television service of Sky Cable Corporation in the Philippines. It covers areas across the country with both digital and analog cable services, and it has 700,000 subscribers, controlling 45% of ...

(Philippines): Channel 214 (SD), Channel 249 (HD) *

SkyCable Sky Cable (stylized as SKYcable) is a cable television service of Sky Cable Corporation in the Philippines. It covers areas across the country with both digital and analog cable services, and it has 700,000 subscribers, controlling 45% of ...

(Philippines): Channel 106 * Telenet (Brussels & Wallonia): Channel 49 (HD, French), Channel 621 (HD, English/Dutch) * Telenet (Flanders): Channel 210 (HD, English/Dutch), Channel 220 (French) *

(Hungary): Channel 9 * T-Home Digital (Hungary): Channel S26 * UPC Digital (Hungary): Channel 44 (HD), Channel 45 * UPC (Hungary): Channel 13 * UPC Poland (Poland): Channel 564, Channel 565 (HD) * UPC (Romania): Channel 203 (digital with DVR), Channel 73 (digital) * Virgin Media Ireland: Channel 423, Channel 424 (HD) * Virgin Media (UK): Channel 521 (HD) *

Vodafone TV Vodafone Group plc () is a British multinational telecommunications company. Its registered office and global headquarters are in Newbury, Berkshire, England. It predominantly operates services in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. , Vodafon ...

(Spain): Channel 250 (HD) * WightFibre (UK): Channel 87 * Ziggo (Netherlands): Channel 20 (HD), Channel 941 (SD) * Macau Cable TV:Channel 630 * Türksat Kablo TV (Turkey): Channel S21 * ArtMotion(Kosovo): Channel 81 *

Kujtesa Kujtesa is a telecommunications company in Kosovo. The company was founded in 1995 as a small business that offered general IT services such as backing up CDs to computers, sales, and repairs. During the war of 1999, the company lost most of it ...

(Kosovo): Channel 120 * IPKO(Kosovo): Channel 216(HD) Channel 234(SD) *

(Albania)

IPTV

* A1 TV (Austria): Channel 99 (SD) * BT (United Kingdom): Channel 412, Channel 435 (HD) * CHT MOD (Taiwan): Channel 216 * Cosmote TV (Greece): Channel 21 * eir Vision (Ireland): Channel 413, Channel 427 (HD) * iNES (Romania): Channel * KPN (Netherlands): Channel 35 (HD) * MEO (Portugal): Channel 36 (HD), Channel 37 * Moldtelecom (Moldova): Channel 301 *

(Spain): Channel 61 (HD, SD) *

On Telecoms On Telecoms was a Greek telecommunications company offering triple play, double play and fixed telephony services in Athens and Thessaloniki through Local Loop Unbundling. The company was founded in March 2006 and started its commercial opera ...

(Greece): Channel 46 * Open IPTV (Serbia): Channel 561 *

Orange TV OTV ( ar, أو تي في, launched in 2007) is a publicly traded television station in Lebanon, connected to the Free Patriotic Movement political party (التيار اللوطني الحر). It is nicknamed 'Orange TV' due to its orange logo ...

(Spain): Channel 100 (HD) * Singtel TV (

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...

): Channel 112 (HD) (11 August 2015 to 31 July 2018), Channel 116 (1 October 2021 - now) *

SK Telecom SK Telecom Co., Ltd. ( or ) is a South Korean wireless telecommunications operator and former film distributor and is part of the SK Group, one of the country's largest chaebols. It leads the local market with 50.5 percent share as of 2008. ...

B TV (

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

): Channel 654 * Tele2 (Netherlands): Channel 38 * Telekom Entertain (Germany): Channel 50 (SD) *

(Hungary): Channel * T-Mobile (Netherlands): Channel 131 (HD) * Tivibu (Turkey): Channel 85 * TPG IPTV (Australia): Channel 677 *

(Greece): Channel 551 (HD) * Vodafone TV Net Voz (Portugal): Channel 25, Channel 26 (HD) * myTV Super (

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a List of cities in China, city and Special administrative regions of China, special ...

): Channel 305 *

Xbox 360 The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft. As the successor to the original Xbox, it is the second console in the Xbox series. It competed with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generati ...

(Australia): Channel 511 * MojaTV (Bosnia and Herzegovina): Channel 34

Online

* eurosport.com (

Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia ...

and wider region)
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* Virgin TV Go (Ireland)

* Virgin TV Anywhere (UK)
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* Ziggo GO (Netherlands)
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* DAZN (Italy)

Viewing share

Being an international channel, Eurosport's performance differs significantly between countries. The figures below show the channel's share of overall viewing in some countries.

References

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