The channel was launched on 24 March 2007 from
Canal Digital,
Get,
Lyse and
BKK. In the autumn, it launched on the terrestrial
RiksTV. From 22 March 2009 the channel will also be available from the
Viasat satellite platform. The channel is a premium pay channel with a relatively high price (159 NOK per month, as of 2009). In addition to the main channel, it also offered four extra channels, TV 2 Sport 2, TV 2 Sport 3, TV 2 Sport 4 and TV 2 Sport 5, which allowed them to broadcast five matches at once. The extra channels were, however, not available terrestrially. During
UEFA Euro 2008, only twelve of the matches were carried on an exclusive channel, TV 2 Sport UEFA EURO 2008 (the main TV 2 channel carried 19 matches). However, it was only available for Canal Digital subscribers who had access to the main TV 2 Sport channel. The matches were covered in high definition, for the first time, on TV 2 Sport's HD feed, which was available on
Get at the time. On 11 June 2010, TV 2 launched
TV 2 Sport Premium (previously TV 2 Barclays Premier League HD), which contains two sport channels. TV 2 Sport Premium Broadcasts live matches from
Premier League, the
FA Cup,
Scottish Premiership,
Allsvenskan and
SHL. In 2012 the channel was rebranded to a 24 hours sports channel named
TV 2 Sportskanalen. In 2013 the resolution was changed from SD to HD. In 2018, Sportskanalen changed its name to TV 2 Sport 2, the other channel name is TV 2 Sport 1. == Coverage ==