Eurosport, Euronews and others

[Hitro]

These questions are directly mainly to Europeans, I guess.

Do you have pan-European TV stations where you live?
If so, which?
Are they in your language or another?
Do you watch them?
What do you think of them?

I ask this because I just came across Euronews and wondered how many people watch that and in which countries. After all there are domestic news channels as well as international ones like CNN and BBC World in many countries, which should be plenty of competition.

How about Eurosport?

 

[insurgent]

I have Eurosport, in Danish. I once had Euronews in English. Now, the domestic government tv station is using the Euronews broadcast as its morning tv, translated to Danish...

But I don't watch either anyway.

 

[IceBlaZe]

I have BBC, BBC Prime, Eurosport, Euronews, (Partially) the Man Utd channel.

 

[MCdread]

Yeah, I have those two channels and in portuguese language, although some programs in Eurosport are in english, particulary if they are relives of an earlier broadcast. I watch Eurosport more often than Euronews, although this channel is excellent if you want to know what's up in the world in any time of the day and don't have much time to watch it on the TV.
The Eurosport programs aren't allways very appelative for a portuguese. I particulary hate it when they show dancehall contests or darts, among others.

 

[philippe]

We HAD eurosport but now not anymore(they did their prices up)

 

[G-Man]

I have eurosport, and there are probably options for other european channels, but I never watch them anyway (eurosport is a part of the basic package so we couldn't take it off)

 

[Mikoyan]

I have Eurosport, and i watch Euronews on Yle (the finnish channel).

 

[Lord_Vetinari]

I had some pan-European news channel until about 6 months ago, when it got replaced by Discovery Mix (a mix of 4 different Discovery Channel channels). I don't know if it was called Euronews, but it might have been. I never really watched it actively, but since I'm often up at very odd hours, it was kind of nice to have a channel that was always broadcasting (except for MTV, which I really can't be bothered to watch). I think it was in English, but subtitled in Swedish, as is customary with all foreign shows here.

I have Eurosport too, but I seldom watch it. It seems to be horribly boring sports most of the time (recently there have been a lot of some horse related sport, and a lot of downhill skiing, none of which interested me the slightest). However, I really love their showings of old football events, like former World Cups, and old Campinons Leauge cups. I really like those, and always try to catch them if I can, so I guess it's not all bad. But most of the time Ifind Eurosport to be incredibly dull.

 

[Håkan Eriksson]

I have Eurosport....

Don't kno if it's in Swedish... or some Scandinavian-mix.

I don't watch it much thou.

 

[Zwelgje]

Yeah Eurosport is showed here as well, translated in Dutch. I don't watch it very often though. Merely when there is skiing on or motorsports which aren't shown very often on dutch tv.

Do you guys also have MTV? I used to watch it but now it's also translated in dutch and I hate that. The strength of MTV was that it was aimed at a broad audience and that you would be informed about the musical taste in other countries as well. A shame really...

 

[Hitro]

MTV has become German here years ago. To be honest I didn't like it too much before either, but now it's practically unbearable.

 

[MrPresident]

MTV has become German here years ago. To be honest I didn't like it too much before either, but now it's practically unbearable.

For some strange reason they show German MTV in my local gym and I have to agree it is unbearable. One minute you are listening to "normal" music and then comes on a German video. It is frightening, very frightening.

Do you have pan-European TV stations where you live?

Yes.

If so, which?

Eurosport and Euronews.

Are they in your language or another?

English, of course.

Do you watch them?

Hell no.

What do you think of them?

Waste of money, except Eurosport does show the Tour de France (it wasn't shown here because of low ratings).

 

[sysyphus]

Well, I don't live in Europe, though the BBC is now broadcasting via a special channel here in Canada.

CBC's news station has always run BBC world report as well.

 

[Hitro]

Originally posted by MrPresident
For some strange reason they show German MTV in my local gym

I knew the English were weird, but this...?

Waste of money, except Eurosport does show the Tour de France (it wasn't shown here because of low ratings).

Yeah, I used to watch it there too because they had the better commentators until last year.

Eurosport is generally okay in my opinion. Of course they show alot of strange sports, like Dart or Billiard or these "strongest man" things. But they also show alot of football, for example the African Cup of Nations, which I watch sometimes.

 

[MrPresident]

I knew the English were weird, but this...?

I wish I had an explaination or even a theory but sadly I can't come up with anything.

Of course they show alot of strange sports, like Dart or Billiard or these "strongest man" things.

Darts, snooker (we don't play billards), African Nations football and those "strongest man" things are all shown by the good 'ole BBC.

 

[Eivind IV]

I have BBC World and BBC Prime. I have Eurosport and Euronews (...And several others). I am one of those 'news-geeks', so I actually watch more on English channels than the Norwegian channels we have. I love BBC World and Euronews (I am also very fond of the Deutche Welle).

 

[Logain]

At the moment EuroNews is broadcast here on RTE1 and TG4 in the middle of the night and early in the morning. I also have BBC. When I lived in Dublin we used to have Eurosport and TV5 on cable but NTL took them off and replaced them with E4 and MNBC both of which are absolutely crap!