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Arena Sport

Pay television sports network

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ6592627
Source-derived summary

Arena Sport is a regional pay television sports network. It consists of five premium, ten regular, and six special channels. Its coverage area includes Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo and Slovenia. The network broadcast various types of sports such as association football, basketball, handball, American football, ice hockey, baseball, motorsports, volleyball, and rugby. It is owned by Telekom Srbija. Channels are available in HD technology.

History

Arena Sport launched its first channel, Arena Sport 1, on 27 August 2009, while Arena Sport 2 was launched on 4 September of the same year. Arena Sport 3, Arena Sport 4 and Arena Sport 5 were later launched, while Arena Esport, specializing in e-sports broadcasts, was launched in 2020, when the channel dedicated to martial arts, Arena Fight, was launched.[1] Arena Sport 1x2 was launched shortly after. Arena Sport 6, Arena Sport 7 and Arena Sport 8 channels began operating on 6 September 2021, while Arena Sport 9 and Arena Sport 10 channels were launched on 26 September 2022. On 29 July 2025, specialized channels, Arena Tennis and Adrenalin, were launched.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Arena Sport” as pay television sports network. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Arena, Sport and television.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2020, 2021, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2010-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Arena, Sport and television providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Arena Sport”, the useful work is to connect “pay television sports network” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6592627. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Arena Sport primary sources, Arena Sport archive and Arena research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
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This entry incorporates text from Arena Sport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.