The Eurosport Group is Europe’s leading sports entertainment group with the head office situated in Paris. Eurosport, the n°1 pan-European TV channel, broadcasts in 20 languages and reaches 135 million homes across 54 countries. Eurosport HD is the high definition simulcast of Eurosport. Eurosport 2 broadcasts to 72 million households in 18 languages across 51 countries. Eurosport 2 HD was launched in August 2009. Eurosport Asia-Pacific reaches 16 countries in the region and launched an HD channel in September 2011. Eurosportnews is the sports news channel transmitted worldwide.
Eurosport.com, Europe’s n°1 online sports destination, has up to 23 million unique users per month (comScore) across an international network of sports websites in 11 languages, including Yahoo! co-branded sites in Germany, Spain, Italy and the UK. The Eurosport.com free mobile applications are available in 10 languages. Eurosport Player, Eurosport’s online TV service, provides LIVE and on-demand sports to fans’ PCs in 53 countries and the Player application is available for mobile, tablet and connected TV in up to 40 countries. Eurosport Events is the group’s expert division in the management and promotion of international sporting events.
The Czech version of Eurosport has been broadcasting since May 1998 (since 1994 with the Czech voice-over). In the first phase only selected transmissions of the most popular sports were commented in Czech and those broadcast in prime time, with around 80 hours a month commented in Czech (plus repeats of such programs). The editorial department was based in the UPC building in Závišova ulice in Nusle, broadcasting from one commentators’ booth. In 2005 the editorial department moved to the Vysočany multi-arena, where two commentators’ booths were available. A turning point for the editors’ work came when they commented a complete Eurosport program in Czech (full-time) in 2006.
In August 2009 the Czech version of Eurosport 2 was launched and during the Winter Olympics in Vancouver the editorial department moved in the Vysočany multi-arena to larger premises with three commentators’ booths.