Overview
- Vodafone stopped carrying Sport1 on its cable network on Friday, October 30, replacing the channel with an on‑screen notice and removing Sport1 programmes from its on‑demand mediathek.
- Customers who tune to the Sport1 slots see a message that the channel is no longer available and Vodafone confirmed the channel has not been offered via its cable service since the cutoff.
- Both Vodafone and Sport1 say they are ‘working intensively on a solution’ but neither party has disclosed contractual reasons or given a timetable for restoring the channel.
- Sport1 remains viewable through other cable operators, satellite, DVB‑T/IPTV and Sport1’s own livestream and app, so the outage affects Vodafone customers only rather than the channel’s full distribution.
- Reporting notes Sport1’s difficult finances — parent Highlight Communications disclosed about €57.5m in outstanding licence costs for 2025 — which provides background to the dispute but has not been officially linked to Vodafone’s action and could affect negotiations and the channel’s future availability.