Sportitalia
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Launched | February 6, 2004 |
Owned by | Italian Sport Communication |
Picture format | 16:9 SDTV |
Country | Italy |
Website | sportitalia.com |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Digital | DVB-T, LCN 60, Where available |
Satellite | |
SKY Italia | Channel 225 |
Cable | |
Cablecom | Channel 101 (CH-I) |
Naxoo | Channel 192 |
Sportitalia is an Italian terrestrial and satellite television channel owned by Italian Sport Communication, specialized in sports broadcasting 24 hours a day. Sports broadcast include soccer, basketball, tennis, cycling, volley, motoristic sports, rugby, wrestling; information about other sports (winter sports, boxe, golf, surf, skate, swimming, boating, canoe/Kayak, American football, baseball and cricket) is also provided.
It is broadcast FTA on DTT in Italy channel 60 on Mux DFree.
Story
The channel's origins stem after the decision of the Italian Competition Authority, an Italian organism that checks positions of privileges at favour of a firm, to subordinate the creation of SKY Italia to the transfer of the frequencies of the two analogue codified channels possessed by Tele+, Tele+Bianco and Tele+Nero.
The financier Tarak Ben Ammar bought the frequencies in collaboration with the satellite channel Eurosport. The frequencies became of property at 51% of the Holland Coordinator and Service, Tarak Ben Ammar's firm, and at 49% of the TF1 Group, principal commercial French TV channel, which also owns Eurosport. Subsequently, in 2004 Tarak Ben Ammar successfully lobbied the then Italian Communications Minister Maurizio Gasparri for a decree allowing him to convert the concessions from crypted TV to free TV: here, then, Sportitalia.
Seen the excellent share of the first 18 months of the channel, other two DTT channels were created: Si Live 24, an all sports news channels 24 hours a day, and Si Solo Calcio, an all soccer channel (both channels transmits some matches of "Serie B", the Italian Second Division, in exclusive, free with the DTT technology); Si Live 24 became first Sportitalia 24 and now Sportitalia 2, and Si Solo Calcio ended its transmissions.
Starting from 6 January 2006 Sportitalia entered in SKY Italia platform and from 16 May 2006 stopped the analogue transmissions.
From 01:00 AM to 07:00 AM (CET) Sportitalia simulcast NBA TV every nights. [1]
Programming
- Programming shared with Sportitalia 2.
- 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)
- Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
- Primera Division Argentina - Highlights + Some match
- Campeonato Paulista
- Copa Libertadores - Highlights + Some match
- Copa Sudamericana
- Recopa Sudamericana
- Copa América
- Eredivisie - Highlights + Some match
- Ligue 1 - Highlights + Some match (from 2010/2011)
- UEFA Europa League
- European Water Polo Championship
- National Basketball Association
- Portuguese Liga
- Serie B (highlights)
- World Wrestling Entertainment (highlights)
- Motocross World Championship
- CEV Champions League
- Women's CEV Champions League
- Tour de Suisse
- Deutschland Tour
- Spengler Cup
- Jupiler Pro League
- Scottish Premier League
Footnotes
- ↑ "NBA TV's International Television Deals". Retrieved 2008-05-07.
External links
- Official Site (in Italian)
- Sport Italia (in Italian)
- NBA on Sportitalia (in Italian)
- WWE on Sportitalia (in Italian)
- Sportitalia on YouTube
- Sportitalia on Videodiretta