SuperSport (South African broadcaster)

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SuperSport

Channel logo as of July 2012[update]
Country	South Africa
Broadcast area	Africa
Network	DStv
Affiliates	ESPN Fox Sports Australia Sky Sports Sony TEN
Headquarters	Johannesburg
Programming
Language(s)	Afrikaans Amharic English Pidgin Swahili Portuguese Sotho Xhosa Zulu
Picture format	4K, 1080i 16:9, 4:3 (HDTV) Downscaled to 576i for the SDTV feed
Ownership
Owner	MultiChoice
Sister channels	1Magic Abol TV Africa Magic Akwaaba Magic Channel O kykNet M-Net M-Net Movies Me Maisha Magic Mzansi Magic Novela Magic OneZed Pearl Magic Zambezi Magic Maningue Magic Kwenda Magic
History
Launched	1988; 36 years ago (1988) (as Sports segment on M-Net) 1995 (as a single complete channel)
Former names	M-Net SuperSport (1988–1994)
Links
Website	supersport.com
Availability
Terrestrial
M-Net	M-Net (as a sports feed during important events)
GOtv	60–69 (Bantu Africa) 160–169 (Ghana) 360–369 (Uganda)
CSN
Streaming media
SuperSport.com	Live SuperSport Streaming online
DStv Stream App	Available to Subscribers
Showmax	Live SuperSport Streaming

SuperSport is a South African-based group of television channels carried on the DStv & Canal+ satellite platforms alongside the GOtv terrestrial platform and Showmax for live sports programming. It provides sports content in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and many other African countries.^[1]

SuperSport previously also had operations in Europe in the Scandinavian, Benelux, Italy, Eastern Europe, Greek & Cypriot regions and had sports channels started by FilmNet, being owned by MultiChoice at the time which have since been replaced. They also had operations in Thailand, under the current name True Sport & Egypt and Middle East via Cable Network of Egypt (CNE) & Arab Radio and Television Network respectively.

The channel broadcasts most of the major sporting events and leagues of association football, rugby, cricket, tennis, golf, motorsport, cycling, boxing, wrestling, hockey, athletics. It was formerly the world's largest broadcaster of live rugby and cricket (having been overtaken by Sky Sports), and also the world's second largest Premier League broadcaster, broadcasting matches live and, where possible, in HD through the Premier League's Content Service Sr.^[2]

Apart from its satellite channels, SuperSport also feeds content to M-Net, CSN and occasionally to M-Net HD. As of September 2020, much the same way Sky Sports has done, SuperSport started to run thematic channels with most major sports getting their own channels.