Owned by Viasat
Nelonen Media Country Finland | Audience share 0.6% (2010, ) | |
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Launched 1 February 2010 as Nelonen Sport Formerly called Nelonen Sport
(February 2010 - December 2010)
Nelonen Pro
(January 2011 - March 2017) Replaced Urheilukanava
(August 2001 - February 2010) | ||
Ruutu+ Urheilu 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.
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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.