The sports channel was first launched in 2006 to coincide with the start of the
2006 FIFA World Cup in
Germany and was launched under the name
Mundial Total. Among the channel's features were the multichannel system, multi-camera and instant replays, all in panoramic format. Shortly afterwards, after airing content such as
La Liga,
Ligue 1 and some games from the
Premier League were added to its schedule, which it would stop broadcasting for a few years, but would resume exclusively in 2013. The channel was known as
Canal 680 before finally being called
DirecTV Sports in July 2009, with the channel managing a set of alternative channels that were responsible for broadcasting several sporting rights simultaneously, such as football, tennis and basketball on channels 614, 615, 616, 617 and 618 in HD. From 2010 to 2011, it continued to show the past
FIFA World Cups. On May 19, 2019, DirecTV Venezuela ceased operations due to
US sanctions against pro-
Maduro TV channels
Globovisión and
PDVSA TV in 2019, with the channels requiring mandatory transmission imposed by the telecommunications commission of Venezuela, CONATEL, while the US sanctions simultaneously blocked the transmission of DirecTV channels in the region. On August 14, 2020, as a result of the 2019 sanctions against the channels,
DirecTV Venezuela was sold to Chilean company
Scale Capital. DirecTV Sports Venezuela was rebranded as SimpleTV Sports. On November 14, 2022, before the
2022 FIFA World Cup, the channel was rebranded to DSports with a new logo and presentation. == Feeds ==