Nelonen Pro 2

Nelonen Pro 2

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Launched 1 February 2010 as Nelonen Sport
Owned by Viasat
Nelonen Media
Audience share 0.6% (2010, [1])
Country  Finland
Formerly called Nelonen Sport
(February 2010 - December 2010)
Replaced Urheilukanava
(August 2001 - February 2010)
Sister channel(s) Nelonen (HD)
Nelonen Prime
Nelonen Nappula
Nelonen Maailma
JIM
Liv
Hero
Nelonen Pro 1 (HD)
Nelonen Pro 2 HD
Nelonen Pro 3
Nelonen Pro 4
Nelonen Pro 5
Nelonen Pro 6
Nelonen Pro 7
Nelonen Pro 8
Website www.nelonenpro.fi
Availability
Terrestrial
PlusTV Channel 59
dna Welho Channel 60
Channel 102 (HD)
Satellite
Canal Digital Channel 25
Cable
Elisa Channel 226
dna Welho Channel 451
Channel 244 (HD)

Nelonen Pro 2 is a Finnish TV channel that specializes in sports. Urheilukanava was launched on August 27, 2001 and it was especially popular among Finnish football fans since the channel made it possible to watch both high standard domestic and international football on TV for free. Urheilukanava was replaced by Nelonen Sport in February 2010. Nelonen Sport was renamed to Nelonen Pro 2 in January 2011 and it became a pay TV channel.

Current programming

The channel televises lots of sports, like these:

Ice Hockey

Football

Track & Field

Nelonen Pro 2 also televises floorball (both national and international), pesäpallo (Finnish variant of baseball), horse riding, basketball, MotoGP and a few other sporting events and magazines.

Former programming

Urheilukanava was especially popular among Finnish football fans since the channel has made it possible to watch both high standard domestic and international football on TV for free. These leagues have included the Finnish Veikkausliiga, Spanish La Liga, French Ligue 1, German Bundesliga, Swedish Allsvenskan, Italian Serie A, FA Cup and many others. It also used to show sports such as ice hockey (Mestis, SM-liiga, Swiss NLA, IIHF World Championships), volleyball (Finnish league, FIVB World League) and golf.

References

  1. "Results From The TV Audience Measurement". Finnpanel. Retrieved 3 August 2011.

External links

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