Movistar Deportes


Movistar Deportes is a Spanish sports television channel, owned and operated by Telefónica, dedicated exclusively to the sport and oriented to broadcast mainly basketball competitions and tennis. Soccer, golf and Formula 1 have their own thematic channels in the Movistar+ platform.. It also has seven other auxiliary signals, for competitions or matches played simultaneously.

History

The channel began broadcasting on February 1, 2007, replacing "Canal+ Deporte 2". It also had two versions in high definition, "Canal+ Deportes HD" and "Canal+ Deportes 2 HD". As of April 2, 2011, began issuing a second signal channel called Canal+ Deportes 2 focused on athletics, tennis and four US major leagues, but they don't have discussions to rename "Canal+ Deportes 1". On August 1, 2016, Movistar replaced this channel with Movistar Deportes 1 as it decided to drop the Canal+ brand. On 9 September 2018, both channels were unified in a single main channel called "Movistar Deportes", while the second channel was renamed #Vamos.