TVRI Sport HD


TVRI Sport HD is an Indonesian terrestrial television channel owned by public broadcaster TVRI, specialised in sports programming. Serves as complementary of TVRI main channel, the channel is available only in digital terrestrial, satellite, and TVRI Klik streaming service.

History

TVRI Sport HD was launched as one of two initial digital television channels set up by TVRI following the government plan to introduce digital television in Indonesia, as well as one of the Indonesian first digital television channels. TVRI 4, as it was called, was launched on 21 December 2010 as the first Indonesian digital broadcast is launched in Jakarta, Surabaya and Batam. Together with its sister channel TVRI 3 as well as the digital broadcast of TVRI Nasional and local TVRI stations, the channel was officially launched by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Minister of Communications and Information Technology Tifatul Sembiring and TVRI President Director Imas Sunarya.
In 2012, TVRI won rights to Italian Serie A league for one and a half years until the first half of the 2013-2014 season by airing all live or postponed battles in addition to rebroadcasts. Starting December 2013 until the, TVRI no longer broadcasts the league anymore, because TVRI allegedly bought Serie A broadcasting rights which required expensive funds using state budget and had not received permission from the Minister of Finance and the Financial Audit Board.
In 2018, TVRI 4 changed its name to TVRI Sport HD.

Current coverage

Indonesia

International

Shows

Indonesia

Football