Sport.ro
Acquired by Central European Media Enterprise (CME) in March 2007, Sport.ro is "The New National Sport Channel" on the Romanian TV market. Sport.ro broadcasts high-quality sports and sport-related programming in Romania through its ownership of valuable broadcast license rights to some of the most popular sports programming. Broadcasting 24 hours a day and reaching 64% of Romania's 20.2 million people, Sport.ro broadcasts approximately 54% locally produced content and achieved an all day audience share of 2.5% in its urban male target group in 2008.
Sport.ro holds the broadcast rights to major football properties, including the Europa League and the Argentinian Championship. Many World Cup 2010 qualification matches and international and club friendlies are also part of Romania's number 1 sports channel's portfolio of sporting events. Tennis is also represented, by the Wimbledon tournament, the ATP Masters Series, Tennis Masters Cup and the Hopman Cup. Handball has been a big part of Sport.ro's schedule in past years, including the major European club tournaments: EHF Champions League, EHF Cup and Challenge Cup can all be seen live.
World-class boxing always has a home at Sport.ro, with the most important boxing events shown every week (Klitschko, Pacquiao, Hatton, Bute, Cotto, Margarito, Valuev, etc). Also, two of rugby's biggest competitions, Tri-Nations and Super 14 are broadcast over the course of each year.
World Wrestling Entertainment programming is one of the most popular on the channel, with Smackdown, Raw and Special events keeping viewers of all ages glued to the television set. Entertainment is also represented by shows like Fear Factor and the all-new American Gladiators series.
Combining locally produced sport shows and daily sports news programs with the broadcasting of major sporting competitions has allowed Sport.ro to quickly rise to the number one position in the sports channel market.
www.sport.ro is the first choice of Romanians when it comes to sport. News, live transmissions, exclusive interviews and video-chats with famous sport figures brought www.sport.ro on top of Romanian sport websites.
The General Director of Sport.ro is Constantin Mocanu.
