Eurosport 1

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Eurosport 1
Station logo
Logo from November 13, 2015
General information
Reception: Analog: Cable
digital: DVB-T2 , DVB-C , DVB-S , DVB-S2 , IPTV
Owner: Discovery Inc.
Resolution: 576i ( SDTV ) (Eurosport 1 SD)
1080i ( HDTV ) (Eurosport 1 HD)
Executive Director: Peter Hutton
Start of broadcast: February 5, 1989 (as Eurosport)
November 13, 2015 (as Eurosport 1)
Legal form: Private law
Program type: Specialized program (sport)
Market share: 0.7% (2013)
Website: eurosport.de
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Euro Sport 1 is on sports coverage specialized pan-European television division program based in Issy-les-Moulineaux in Paris , that of Euro Sports , a subsidiary of US media company Discovery Inc. , is operated. Until November 12, 2015, the name of the station was identical to the name of the company.

With the exception of the German version, the receipt of Eurosport 1 is chargeable .

Logos

  • Former logo

  • Logo until spring 2011

  • Logo until November 12, 2015

  • Logo since November 13, 2015

history

Eurosport and the TV broadcaster, which at that time still bore the same name as the company, were founded in 1989 with the participation of individual broadcasters from the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and began broadcasting on February 5, 1989. At that time, the operator was the British private satellite broadcaster SKY of the media entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch . The station has been based in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris since 1991 . The French commercial broadcaster TF1 was the sole shareholder of the station until December 12, 2012 . Since December 13, 2012, Discovery Communications held a 20% stake in Eurosport and increased its stake to 51% on January 21, 2014, thus obtaining a majority of the votes. On April 11, 2014 it became known that the EU Commission had not only approved the increase in the stake to 51%, but also a possible complete takeover of Eurosport by Discovery Communications.

In the meantime, the then British TV broadcaster Eurosport ceased broadcasting on May 6, 1991 at 2:00 a.m. CEST. In February 1991 the station had been given a deadline by the responsible EC authority to dissolve the merger of its 17 member companies. The reason: The Eurosport consortium has given itself an unfair priority and is displacing other providers of sports broadcasts from the market. Until then, Eurosport was considered the largest pan-European satellite TV broadcaster. The resumption of broadcasting took place on Wednesday, May 22, 1991 at 7:30 p.m. However, the daily broadcast time was initially drastically reduced. Until the end of broadcasting on May 6, 1991, the Eurosport program day started at 5:00 a.m. on weekdays until about 8:30 a.m. and on weekends until about 10:00 a.m., no own programs were broadcast. but non-sports programs in English from Sky News and Sky One , including programs such as the religious Hour of Power and children's programs such as Fun Factory and DJ-Kat-Show . After the takeover by TF1, broadcasts were initially only broadcast to a very limited extent: on weekdays only from 2 p.m. and on weekends from 9 a.m. From the beginning of 1992, the program was continuously expanded and also broadcast on weekdays from 9:00 a.m.

On January 13, 1993, Eurosport merged with the then still competing pan-European television broadcaster Sportkanal , which broadcast its program in Great Britain as Screensport and which was officially called The European Sports Network . In order to avoid costly legal licensing disputes in court that had been going on for years, the operators of both stations agreed to merge them. The resulting station was continued under the name Eurosport , but with the addition of The European Sports Network . Broadcasting continued on the previous frequencies from Eurosport. The sports channel ceased broadcasting on March 5, 1993. On September 16, 2013, Discovery Communications announced that Eurosport will operate an American offshoot from September 28, 2013.

In June 2015, Discovery surprisingly secured the European rights from the 2018 Winter Olympics to 2024 with its broadcaster Eurosport .

On July 23, 2015 it was announced that Discovery owns all shares in Eurosport.

From November 13, 2015 Eurosport received a relaunch with a new logo and a new claim "Fuel Your Passion" (German: "Strength your passion"). Since then, the previous TV channel is no longer called Eurosport, but Eurosport 1.

reception

Eurosport 1 now broadcasts in 59 countries in Europe , the Middle East and North Africa and, according to its own account, can be received by around 120 million TV households. The program is currently offered in 20 different languages ​​(English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, Russian, Greek, Turkish, Portuguese, Romanian, Czech, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Serbian) , which means that 96% of Eurosport viewers have the opportunity to receive the station in their mother tongue. In Germany (Eurosport Deutschland), Great Britain (British Eurosport), France (Eurosport France), the Scandinavian countries (Eurosport Nordic), Poland (Eurosport Poland) and Italy (Eurosport Italia) separate program windows are offered, and a Eurosport has recently been launched Version in Asia (Eurosport Asia / Pacific) which is broadcast in nine countries in the region.

In Germany you can receive the station via satellite , cable , IP-TV and in some regions via DVB-T . Since March 9, 2010, Eurosport has also been broadcasting in Germany using digital technology in the 16: 9 format .

program

The station reports on a wide range of sports . The basic framework is the live reporting from

Commentators and reporters

Jürgen Höthker (r.) In an interview with Heiner Brand
Karsten Migels (2015)
Gerhard Leinauer, Patrick Ehelechner and Peter Forsberg during the 2018 Olympic Winter Games

The editor-in-chief in Paris is the Frenchman Alexandre Daquo. Ingolf Cartsburg is responsible for the German language version.

Many former commentators on German television in the GDR found a new home at Eurosport after the fall of the Wall. Dirk Thiele was nominated together with Sigi Heinrich for the Adolf Grimme Prize 2005 . In 2008 the two accepted the German TV Prize on behalf of Eurosport ( see awards ).

Well-known German commentators / reporters of the station are or were:

The station's experts are or were:

Teletext / blanking interval

There was trouble in 2003 when Eurosport cooperated with an adult entertainment provider to offer a subscription service for porn films under the name Sexxxcast.TV via the blanking interval . Since Eurosport was still represented in the ZDF digital package at the time , there was a lot of commotion (ZDF even threatened to remove Eurosport from the digital package, which happened anyway on January 1, 2006 after changes to the Interstate Broadcasting Treaty) and the cooperation was already growing finished again shortly. Resuscitation attempts by the service provider failed. The transmission technology for this is called TV Radio Cast .

Awards

Eurosport won the German Television Prize 2008 in the “Best Sports Show” category for its coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. The commentators Sigi Heinrich and Dirk Thiele accepted the award on behalf of the entire team . The German Television Award 2017 in the category “Best Sports Broadcast” also went to the broadcaster, this time for broadcasting the women's finals of the Australian and US Open 2016 .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ audience shares . KEK-online.de , 2013, accessed on August 31, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Eurosport: A broadcaster full of misunderstandings DWDL.de from June 7, 2010.
  3. ↑ DWDL.de: Option drawn: Discovery takes over Eurosport
  4. ↑ digitalfernsehen.de: Elephant wedding: Discovery swallows Eurosport
  5. ↑ digitalfernsehen.de: EU Commission approves takeover of Eurosport by Discovery
  6. ^ ARD / ZDF, teletext panel 180 of May 4, 1991.
  7. ↑ Infosat edition 8/1996 page 50
  8. ↑ Source: Hörzu No. 42/1990.
  9. ↑ Source: Hörzu No. 36/1991
  10. ↑ Infosat No. 59, February 1993, p. 8.
  11. ↑ digitalfernsehen.de: Eurosport expands to North America
  12. ↑ faz.net: Games 2018 to 2024: Eurosport snatches ARD and ZDF Olympic rights away , June 29, 2015
  13. ↑ quotenmeter.de: Eurosport: Discovery takes full control
  14. ↑ DWDL.de: Discovery gives Eurosport a completely new coat of paint
  15. ↑ grimme-institut.de: Nominees 2005 ( Memento from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ He died on June 29, 2015, see DWDL.de: Gustav Büsing dies after a heart attack in Le Mans
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Denmark

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Finland

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Norway

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Poland

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Sweden

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Spain

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