Country | Brazil |
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Broadcast area | Brazil |
Headquarters | Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Portuguese |
Picture format | 480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Warner Bros. Discovery Americas (Warner Bros. Discovery International) |
History | |
Launched | Esporte Interativo BR: January 20, 2007 Esporte Interativo: January 5, 2014 Esporte Interativo 2: July 25, 2015 TNT Sports: January 8, 2021 |
Closed | September 25, 2018 (Esporte Interativo) |
Former names | Esporte Interativo BR: TV Esporte Interativo (2007–2014) Esporte Interativo (2014–2017) Esporte Interativo: Esporte Interativo Nordeste (2014–2015) EI Maxx (2015–2017) Esporte Interativo 2: Esporte Interativo Max (2015) EI Maxx 2 (2015–2017) |
Links | |
Website | tntsports |
Availability | |
Streaming media | |
TNT Sports Go | Watch live |
TNT Sports is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery in Brazil responsible for sports broadcasts on TNT and Space channels in the country.
Esporte Interativo started as a television channel, inaugurated on January 20, 2007, with the live broadcast of a Premier League match between Chelsea and Liverpool. From 2015, it became part of Turner Broadcasting System Latin America. Turner announced in 2018 the discontinuation of all EI channels in Brazil. Part of the programming, such as the exhibition of national and international football championships, started to be shown on the Brazilian versions of TNT and Space channels. With the standardization of Turner's sports channels in Latin America, it started to use the TNT Sports brand as of 2021.