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Eurosport 2 Xtra (German TV channel)

German sports television channel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ48742139 ↗
Source-derived summary

Eurosport 2 Xtra is a German pay-television sports channel which broadcasts several Bundesliga matches and the DFL-Supercup in the seasons 2017/18-2020/21 exclusively which Warner Bros. Discovery won in the tender of national media rights arranged by the Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL).

Broadcasting rights

Football

Bundesliga (thirty games on Friday afternoon at 20:30, five games on Sunday afternoon at 13:30, five games on Monday evening at 20:30 and 4 relegation matches at the end of the season)

DFL-Supercup

Distribution

Eurosport 2 Xtra is available in HD quality via the Eurosport Player and in the pay-tv offer of HD+ via Astra 19.2°E. The channel is not available in DVB-C, DVB-T or IPTV networks.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Eurosport 2 Xtra (German TV channel)” as german sports television channel. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Eurosport, Xtra and German.

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—2017, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2017-08-04. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Eurosport, Xtra and German 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 “Eurosport 2 Xtra (German TV channel)”, the useful work is to connect “german sports television channel” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q48742139. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017 and 2020.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Eurosport 2 Xtra (German TV channel)” 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.