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Ziggo Sport Totaal

Dutch television service

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ22026536
Source-derived summary

Ziggo Sport Totaal is a Dutch premium television service operated by Ziggo and owned by VodafoneZiggo, a joint venture between Liberty Global and Vodafone. Ziggo Sport Totaal launched as Sport1 with its sister service Film1 on 1 February 2006 and replaced the Canal+ Netherlands channels. Film1 was sold to Sony Pictures Television on 21 July 2015, while Sport1 remained Liberty Global-owned. At launch, the service consisted of two main channels (Ziggo Sport & Ziggo Sport 2), six extra channels (Ziggo Sport Select, Ziggo Sport Football, Ziggo Sport Golf, Ziggo Sport Racing, Ziggo Sport Documentary, & Ziggo Sport Tennis) and one HD simulcast of the first main channel. On 2 February 2009, the number of extra channels was reduced to four. The extra channels only broadcast when necessary to live broadcast multiple sport events at the same time. The service was rebranded to Ziggo Sport Totaal on 12 November 2015.

The channels are available on digital cable of most Dutch cable companies. Satellite provider Canal Digitaal only provides three channels.

Channels

Ziggo Sport: The primary channel

Ziggo Sport 2: Football channel

Ziggo Sport 3: Racing channel

Ziggo Sport 4: Tennis channel

Ziggo Sport 5: Sports Documentary channel

Ziggo Sport 6: Golf channel

Ziggo Sport On Demand: Sports highlights on-demand S-VOD service

Ziggo Sport Totaal Go: Live app

Ziggo Sport, which offers live broadcasts of major sporting events was exclusive to Ziggo subscribers and not included with Ziggo Sport Totaal.

Editorial summary

“Ziggo Sport Totaal” enters the record as dutch television service. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ziggo, Sport and Totaal can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2015, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2015. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ziggo, Sport and Totaal.
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Why this record matters

“Ziggo Sport Totaal” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ziggo, Sport and Totaal provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22026536. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2015 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from Ziggo Sport Totaal” 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.