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Deportes por Movistar Plus+ is a Spanish sports television channel, owned and operated by
Telefónica Telefónica, S.A. () is a Spanish multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Madrid, Spain. It is one of the largest telephone operators and mobile network providers in the world. It provides fixed and mobile telephony, broadba ...
, dedicated exclusively to the sport and oriented to broadcast mainly basketball competitions (NBA and Liga Endesa) and tennis (ATP Masters 1000 and Wimbledon). Soccer, golf and Formula 1 have their own thematic channels in the
Movistar+ 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 ...
platform. It also has seven other auxiliary signals (Movistar Deportes 1-7) for competitions or matches played simultaneously.


History

The channel began broadcasting on February 1, 2007, replacing "Canal+ Deporte 2". It also had two versions in high definition (HD), "Canal+ Deportes HD" (simulcast channel in HD version) and "Canal+ Deportes 2 HD". As of April 2, 2011, began issuing a second signal channel called Canal+ Deportes 2 focused on athletics, tennis and four US major leagues, but they don't have discussions to rename "Canal+ Deportes 1". On August 1, 2016, Movistar replaced this channel with Movistar Deportes 1 as it decided to drop the Canal+ brand. On 9 September 2018, both channels were unified in a single main channel called "Movistar Deportes", while the second channel was renamed #Vamos.


External links


Official site
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