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This article is about the Portuguese sports network. For the similarly named and themed network in Brazil, see SporTV.
SportTV is the brand name for a group of three Portuguese sports-oriented television channels. SportTV is the dominant subscription television sports brand in Portugal. The first channel, then known as only SportTV, was launched on 16 September 1998 and is produced by ZON Multimédia and Controlinveste (and originally had the participation of Rádiotelevisão Portuguesa). It is available in almost all television distribution operators in Portugal as a premium subscription channel, except TVTEL. SportTV transmits most of the existing sports, mainly football (soccer), Formula 1, basketball, volleyball, rugby, and tennis. It also features debates, news and sports reports. The most important Portuguese Liga games are broadcast exclusively by SportTV. Seven years after the opening of the first channel, on 16 September 2005 the channel SportTV 2 opened. It will regularly broadcast alternative sports such as mountaineering, cycling and radical sports. The channel is available through ZON TVCabo, Cabovisão, Clix SmarTV and Portugal Telecom's meo. This was followed in June 2008 by SportTV 3. SportTV, broadcasted the UEFA Euro 2008 in HD, through ZON TVCabo.
[edit] ControversiesSportTV is widely regarded as unpopular and anticompetitive, since it is the only group of channels in Portugal who has the rights to broadcast the Liga Sagres matches, as well as other international competitions. Actually, Portugal is one of the countries in Europe where the Formula 1 is broadcast on a premium channel, in this case, SportTV, followed by Finland (MTV3 MAX), and in 2009 by Sweden, where races and trainings are broadcast by Viasat Motor. On September 2007, SportTV sent a cease-and-desist to a Portuguese live tv streaming website [1], because the latter was providing links to streams of Champions League matches that only Sport TV had the rights to broadcast. This has caused great public concern of the monopoly abuse status of the Sport TV channels. [edit] Broadcasting Rights[edit] FootballEvery year SportTV shows many live matches from around the world of football.
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