the football League and Cup matches live and in full length – which today appear quite normal, to the birth of the niche channel Eurosport is almost exotic. 1989, Eurosport, after a cooperation with the European Broadcast Union (EBU) for the first time, a Europe-wide network for Live created sports. On 5. In February the station went live on broadcasts in three languages, English, Dutch and German. Hardly a TV station in this country has followed a chequered history. The first operator of the British private satellite TV broadcaster Sky, the media entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch. The French private channel TF1 followed as a shareholder until December 2012. The biggest incision the acquisition of Eurosport by Discovery Communications, the Start of a development, then is 2015: the complete at the preliminary highlight of the exclusive purchase of expensive Olympic TV Rights and the Friday football games.
Eurosport to broadcast its channels now available in 59 countries in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa and can be received in order according to the information provided by around 120 million TV households. All the way through the ceiling, spectators, not Eurosport, in this country, however, even if the transmitter is Eurosport1kostenfrei. Elsewhere, there’s Eurosport, only on Pay-TV.
in 2008 both won the German television award
It is a large piece of the niche had come to the German Headquarters in Munich. The truth is, however, As the ARD of the previous year, after tough negotiations with Discovery and the opening of the Olympic winter games in PyeongChang show was down by over four million viewers. In the case of Eurosport, the parallel Transmission had about 100 000 spectators.
on the Other hand: Eurosport sports activities, such as Cycling surfaces, you won’t get anywhere else. The market share of the transmitter is a half a percent, mostly behind Sport1. The with the acquisition of the Bundesliga rights, jazzed up expert squad to Matthias Sammer has changed little. Which is anyway only for a fee, to see via the Eurosport Player.
Otherwise, there is always a commentator Sigi Heinrich came in 1989 of the “süddeutsche Zeitung”. Unmistakable Eurosport voice, always a loose saying on the lips. “Sigi is a rock star,” wrote the Munich “Merkur” in reference to a quote by the former Slalom world champion Frank Wörndl. Henry, 65, is a cult, often together with Dirk Thiele on the MIC, among other things, in the case of athletics. In 2008 both won the German television award for coverage of the Olympic games in Beijing.
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balance sheet as at Olympia TV Eurosport can’s also
Markus Ehrenberg
may be able to comment on Sigi Heinrich more great live sport. With the millions of Discovery in the back of an expensive sports are likely to be rights, such as at the Olympic games in the future topic in Eurosport. For the rights to the Olympic Games from 2018 to 2024, the owners have far more than a billion euros. With such a price could be for more football rights to buy jumps.
