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TAP Sports

TAP Sports

Television channel


TAP Sports (stylized as tap Sports) is a Philippine pay television network of sports channels owned by TAP Digital Media Ventures Corporation. It was launched on April 14, 2019, under two separate channels carried by Sky Cable, and was later relaunched the following year.

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The TAP Sports network has four channels: the main channel itself, and the Premier Sports channels.[1][2]

History

On April 14, 2019, TAP Sports was launched by TAP DMV on cable provider Sky Cable. Back then, it used to be broadcast on two separate channels covering all live tennis events: TAP Sports 1 (airing the men's ATP tournaments) and TAP Sports 2 (airing the women's WTA tournaments).[3]

On February 17, 2020, the TAP Sports network was relaunched, this time as a general sports channel replacing TAP Sports 1. On the same day, it launched 4 new sister channels: TAP W (women-centric sports; replacing TAP Sports 2), TAP Edge (action/adventure/outdoor sports; including EDGEsport programming), Premier Tennis (ATP and WTA), and Premier Football (soccer).

On September 20, 2021, TAP DMV launched Premier Sports, a complimentary channel of TAP Sports.

Programming

List of sports broadcasting rights

Note: Some sporting rights are sublicensed from DAZN and FITE TV.

Auto racing

Badminton

Basketball

Boxing

Cycling

eSports

Football

Combat sports

Multi Sports

Volleyball

Wrestling

Other sports

  • EDGEsport
  • EDGEsportstories
  • NFL (select postseason games only)

Non-sports programming

Previous programming

Blast Sports

Blast Sports is a digital free-to-air sports-oriented channel of TAP DMV. It began its broadcast on BEAM TV's digital terrestrial broadcast nationwide on January 17, 2024 in soft launch mode. The new channel offers selected sporting events that also airs on TAP Sports and Premier Sports.


References

  1. "Premier Football Channel launches 'English Premier League' exclusively in PH this September". Philippine Daily Inquirer. September 10, 2020.



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