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Sport 5

Type	Sports
Country	Israel
Availability	Hot (cable) and yes (satellite) subscribers
Official Website	www.sport5.co.il

Sport 5 (Hebrew: ספורט 5‎, Sport Hamesh), also known as the Sports Channel (Hebrew: ערוץ הספורט‎, Arutz HaSport) is an Israeli television station. Available free on basic cable (via HOT) and satellite (via yes), the channel is devoted to sport, and broadcast game from La Liga (Spain), Serie A (Italy), Winner League (Israel major basketball league), NBA matches and the UEFA Champions League.

Contents 1 Subsidiary channels 1.1 Sport 5 HD 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Subsidiary channels

In 2001, the subscription fee based channel Sport 5+ was created as Sport 5's first subsidiary channel with content such as (cut down international versions of) WWE Raw and WWE Friday Night SmackDown. Since then, Sport 5 has lost almost all of its notable content ^[1], though it is still used to show UEFA Champions League matches in tandem with 5+.

In March 2007, the company launched two new channels, 5+ Live (for live sport) and 5+ Gold (repeats of classic sports action). The new channels followed with great criticism from viewers complaining about even more loss of content in favor of pay channels.

[edit] Sport 5 HD

On December 23, 2007, Sport 5 launched a fifth channel – Sport 5 HD. The channel, available then only to yes HD subscribers, aired UEFA Champions League, the NBA Playoff games and Wimbledon tournament.

In addition to current content, the channel also broadcast games from the 2008 Olympic games. Also, it was announced that starting next season the channel will introduce formula 1 racing.

Today Sport 5 HD is available for both yes HD and HOT HD customers.

[edit] References

1. ^ "Multichannel tyranny". Haaretz. 2007-01-07. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/811624.html. 

[edit] External links

• "Official site" (in Hebrew language). sport5.co.il. http://www.sport5.co.il.