Zigo’s sister launches an international women’s sports channel

Telenet – the Belgian sister of Ziggo – has started offering the first sports channel in Belgium focused entirely on women’s sports.

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W-Sport will start broadcasting on Telenet on September 23. It is the first channel to exclusively broadcast women’s sports. The program includes live coverage of the English Women’s Premier League and four other European competitions of football, basketball, triathlon, horseback riding and boxing. everyone Telenet TV customers can tune in to the channel for free.

philosophy

“With the incorporation of W-Sport into our offer, we are putting women’s sports in the spotlight again and responding to its growing popularity in our country. It fits Telenet’s philosophy of encouraging more girls and women to play sports. For example, we organized the Soccer Sisters Cup, the first soccer tournament Football is on the streets for girls in Flanders, and in recent years there has been the online fantasy series PANNA from SBS,” says Stefan Kestens, responsible for Play Sports.

Lives a thousand hours

The range of W-Sport is wide and varied. There is a lot of interest in football, including the English Women’s Premier League and the Italian, German and Dutch women’s competitions. In addition, the channel has the rights to the PAC12 basketball championship, the Superleague triathlon, the Global Champions Tour horseback riding, and the IBA World Boxing Championship. In addition to all the live coverage, there are also documentaries and shows about women’s sports on the program, including Simone Biles, Venus Williams, and Naomi Osaka.

Original language

All Telenet TV customers will be able to tune to W-Sport for free via channel 219 in Flanders and channel 624 in Brussels and Wallonia. Telenet provides “plug and play” from W-Sport. This means that the original English comment is preserved. In the long term – during 2023 – W-Sport will also offer partial translation in Dutch, possibly also adding Belgian competitions to its offer.

Holland

Dutch TV providers such as zygoAnd KPNAnd T-MobileAnd digital channelAnd Delta in kawaii It has not yet announced the arrival of the global women’s sports channel W-Sport on its show.

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