Sportitalia
| Sportitalia 1 | |
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| Launched | February 6, 2004/June 2, 2014 |
| Closed | November 1, 2013/- |
| Owned by | Micri Communication |
| Picture format | 4:3 and anamorphic 16:9 SDTV |
| Country |
 Italy
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| Sister channel(s) |
Sportitalia 2 Sportitalia 24 |
| Website | sportitalia.com |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| Digital | DVB-T, LCN 60 and 153, Where available |
| Satellite | |
| SKY Italia | Channel 225 |
| Cable | |
| Cablecom | Channel 101 (CH-I) |
| Naxoo | Channel 192 |
Sportitalia 1, formerly Sportitalia, is an Italian terrestrial and satellite television channel owned by Micri Communication, specialized in sports broadcasting 24 hours a day. Sports broadcast include soccer, basketball, tennis, cycling, volley, motoristic sports, rugby, wrestling; information about other sports (winter sports, boxe, golf, surf, skate, swimming, boating, canoe/Kayak, American football, baseball and cricket) is also provided.
It is broadcast FTA on DTT in Italy channel 60 and 153 on Mux D-Free. It was also available on SKY Italia.
The channel's origins stem after the decision of the "Autorità garante della concorrenza e del mercato", an Italian organism that checks positions of privileges at favour of a firm, to subordinate the creation of SKY Italia to the transfer of the frequencies of the two analogue codified channels possessed by Tele+, Tele+Bianco and Tele+Nero.
The financier Tarak Ben Ammar bought the frequencies in collaboration with the satellite channel Eurosport. The frequencies became of property at 51% of the Holland Coordinator and Service, Tarak Ben Ammar's firm, and at 49% of the TF1 Group, principal commercial French TV channel, which also owns Eurosport. Subsequently, in 2004 Tarak Ben Ammar successfully lobbied the then Italian Communications Minister Maurizio Gasparri for a decree allowing him to convert the concessions from crypted TV to free TV: here, then, Sportitalia.
Seen the excellent share of the first 18 months of the channel, other two DTT channels were created: Si Live 24, an all sports news channels 24 hours a day, and Si Solo Calcio, an all soccer channel (both channels transmits some matches of "Serie B", the Italian Second Division, in exclusive, free with the DTT technology); Si Live 24 became first Sportitalia 24 and now Sportitalia 2, and Si Solo Calcio ended its transmissions.
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