ESPN4 is a Brazilian sports channel that was launched on 5 February 2012 as Fox Sports, replacing the Brazilian variant of
Speed
In everyday use and in kinematics, the speed (commonly referred to as ''v'') of an object is the magnitude of the change of its position over time or the magnitude of the change of its position per unit of time; it is thus a scalar quant ...
. A second channel, Fox Sports 2 was launched on 24 January 2014, which continues to use the
Fox Sports
Fox Sports is the brand name for a number of sports channels, broadcast divisions, programming, and other media around the world.
The ''Fox Sports'' name has since been used for other sports media assets. These assets are held mainly by the F ...
name temporarily due to contractual obligations. On May 6, 2020 Brazil's antitrust regulator
CADE announced that Fox Sports and ESPN Brasil could merge as part of the
21st Century Fox merger with Disney, with it remaining as-is until January 1, 2022 due to its broadcast rights and overall structure.
Fox Sports main channel was rebranded as ESPN4 in Brazil on 17 January 2022, becoming the fourth network among those of
the domestic version of ESPN. Fox Sports 2 will remain on-air in Brazil under that name until at least 29 October 2022, due to contractual language with
CONMEBOL
The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL, , or CSF; es, Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol; pt, Confederação Sul-Americana de Futebol) is the continental governing body of football in South America (apart from Guyana, Surina ...
regarding its coverage of the
2022 Copa Libertadores.
Programming rights
Football
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UEFA Europa League
The UEFA Europa League (abbreviated as UEL, or sometimes, UEFA EL), formerly the UEFA Cup, is an annual football club competition organised since 1971 by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs. ...
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UEFA Europa Conference League
The UEFA Europa Conference League (abbreviated as UECL) is an annual football club competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for eligible European football clubs. Clubs qualify for the competition based on thei ...
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Premier League
The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the men's English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Fo ...
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EFL Championship
The English Football League Championship (often referred to as the Championship for short or the Sky Bet Championship for sponsorship purposes) is the highest division of the English Football League (EFL) and second-highest overall in the E ...
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EFL Cup
The EFL Cup (referred to historically, and colloquially, as the League Cup), currently known as the Carabao Cup for sponsorship reasons, is an annual knockout competition and major trophy in men's domestic football in England. Organised by t ...
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La Liga
The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known simply as Primera División in Spain, and as La Liga in English-speaking countries and officially as LaLiga Banco Santander, Santander for sponsorship reasons, stylized as LaL ...
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DFB-Pokal
The DFB-Pokal ( is a German knockout football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competition, including all clubs from the Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga. It is considered ...
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Serie A
The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Cop ...
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Ligue 1
Ligue 1, officially known as Ligue 1 Uber Eats for sponsorship reasons, is a French professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the French football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. ...
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Coupe de France
The Coupe de France, formerly known as the Coupe Charles Simon, is the premier knockout cup competition in French football organized by the French Football Federation (FFF). It was first held in 1917 and is open to all amateur and profession ...
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Primeira Liga
The Primeira Liga (; English: Premier League, also written as Liga Portugal 1), also known as Liga Portugal Bwin for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of the Portuguese football league system. Organised and supervised by the Liga Portugal, ...
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Eredivisie
The Eredivisie (; ''"Honour Division"'' or ''"Premier Division"'') is the highest level of professional football in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is ...
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AFC Champions League
The AFC Champions League (abbreviated as ACL) is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation, and contested by Asia's top-division football clubs. It is the most prestigious club competition ...
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CONMEBOL Libertadores
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Argentine Primera División
The Primera División (; en, "First Division"), known officialy as Liga Profesional de Fútbol, or Torneo Binance for sponsorship reasons, is a professional football league in Argentina, organised by the Argentine Football Association (AFA).
T ...
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Copa do Nordeste
Copa do Nordeste (''Cup of the North-East''), also known as Campeonato do Nordeste (''Championship of the North-East'') or Copa Nordeste (''Northeastern Cup''), and sometimes informally referred as Lampions League – in reference to the UEFA Ch ...
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CONCACAF Champions League
The CONCACAF Champions League, known officially as the Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League for sponsorship reasons, is an annual continental club football competition organized by CONCACAF. The tournament is contested by clubs from North Ameri ...
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Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer (MLS) is a men's professional soccer league sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation, which represents the sport's highest level in the United States. The league comprises 29 teams—26 in the U.S. and 3 in Cana ...
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Copa América
The Copa América ( en, America Cup) or CONMEBOL Copa América, known until 1975 as the South American Football Championship (''Campeonato Sudamericano de Fútbol'' in Spanish and ''Campeonato Sul-Americano de Futebol'' in Portuguese), is the t ...
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UEFA Women's Euro
The UEFA European Women's Championship, also called the UEFA Women's Euro, held every four years, is the main competition in women's association football between national teams of the UEFA confederation. The competition is the women's equivalent ...
American Football
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National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the majo ...
Baseball
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Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (A ...
Boxing
* ESPN Knockout
Motorsports
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MotoGP
Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the premier class of motorcycle road racing events held on road circuits sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM). Independent motorcycle racing events have been held since the start ...
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Moto2
Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the premier class of motorcycle road racing events held on road circuits sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM). Independent motorcycle racing events have been held since the start of ...
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Moto3
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MotoE
Moto E or ''variation'' may refer to:
Motorcycling
* MotoE World Championship, FIM electric prototype superbike motorcycle racing championship
* FIM eRoad Racing World Cup, electric superbike motorcycle championship in 2013
* FIM Moto E European ...
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Dakar Rally
The Dakar Rally (or simply "The Dakar"; formerly known as the "Paris–Dakar Rally") is an annual rally raid organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation. Most events since the inception in 1978 were staged from Paris, France, to Dakar, Senegal ...
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World Rally Championship
The World Rally Championship (abbreviated as WRC) is the highest level of global competition in the motorsport discipline of rallying, owned and governed by the FIA. There are separate championships for drivers, co-drivers, manufacturers and t ...
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FIA World Endurance Championship
The FIA World Endurance Championship is an auto racing world championship organized by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) and sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The series supersedes the ACO's former Intercont ...
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Extreme E
Extreme E is an FIA-sanctioned international off-road racing series that uses spec silhouette electric SUVs to race in remote parts of the world, such as the Saudi Arabian desert or the Arctic. All racing locations are chosen to raise awarenes ...
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TCR South America Touring Car Championship
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DTM
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IndyCar Series
The IndyCar Series, currently known as the NTT IndyCar Series under sponsorship, is the highest class of regional North American open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars in the United States, which has been conducted under the auspices o ...
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Indy Lights
Indy NXT, previously Indy Lights, is an American developmental automobile racing series sanctioned by IndyCar, currently known as Firestone Indy NXT Series for sponsorship reasons. Indy Lights is the highest step on the Road to Indy, a progra ...
Professional wrestling
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WWE
Programs broadcast by ESPN4 in Brazil
* ''Além da Bola''
* ''Bola da Vez''
* ''Especial Libertadores''
* ''ESPN FC''
* ''Inside Serie A''
* ''La Liga World''
* ''Momento ESPN''
* ''Mundo Premier League''
* ''Resenha''
* ''Show da Rodada: Coppa Italia''
* ''Show da Rodada: La Liga''
* ''Show da Rodada: Ligue 1''
* ''Show da Rodada: Serie A''
* ''Show da Rodada: Premier League''
* ''SportsCenter Abre o Jogo''
* ''UEFA Europa League Highlights''
* ''UEFA Europa & Conference League Magazine''
* ''UEFA Nations League: Match Day Highlights''
* ''UEFA Nations League: Match Night Highlights''
* ''The Inside Line''
Staff
Play-by-play
* Antero Greco (Soccer)
* Camilla Garcia (soccer and Basketball)
* Cledi Oliveira (Soccer)
* Eliane Trevisan (Soccer and Tennis)
* Hamilton Rodrigues (Soccer, Tennis and MotoGP)
* Luciana Marianno (Soccer)
* Marco Alfaro (WWE)
* Matheus Pinheiro (Soccer and NFL)
* Matheus Suman (Basketball)
* Paulo Andrade (Soccer)
* Renan do Couto (Motorsports, Soccer and NFL)
* Rogério Vaughan (Soccer)
* Thiago Alves (Motorsports and MLB)
Color commentators
* Carlos Eugênio Simon (Soccer)
* Christian Fittipaldi (IndyCar Series)
* Edgard Mello Filho (Motorsports)
* Eugênio Leal (Soccer)
* Fausto Macieira (MotoGP)
* Gian Oddi (Soccer)
* Gustavo Zupak (Soccer)
* Juliana Tesser (MotoGP)
* Livio Reis (WWE)
* Mauro Naves (Soccer)
* Mário Filho (MMA)
* Mário Marra (Soccer)
* Osvaldo Pascoal (Soccer)
* Paulo Godinho (Boxe)
* Rafael Marques (Soccer)
* Raphael Prates (Soccer)
* Renata Ruel (Soccer)
* Renato Rodrigues (Soccer)
* Roberto Figueroa (WWE)
* Rodrigo Bueno (Soccer)
* Thiago Alves (Motorsports)
* Victor Martins (Motorsports)
* Ubiratan Leal (Soccer, MLB and NFL)
* Zinho (Soccer)
References
External links
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{{The Walt Disney Company Latin America
Sports television networks in Brazil
Television stations in Brazil
ESPN
2012 establishments in Brazil
Television channels and stations established in 2012
The Walt Disney Company Latin America