Paris-Istanbul, November 2, 2010- Eurosport, Europe’s leading sports entertainment group, and MCD Digital, a leading Turkish Digital Media Company, launched today Eurosport’s new locally produced Turkish internet sports portal, tr.eurosport.com.
This new online portal benefits from the strength of the Eurosport brand and the local media market expertise of MCD Digital and is destined to become the one stop destination for Turkish sports fans for breaking news and live updates on all sports, teams, and players.
The Turkish site is edited in Istanbul and offers fans the best local and international sports news and content to Turkish fans. The dedicated Turkish editorial team brings all the local colour and content to the site and works with Eurosport’s international editorial and technology teams.
The editorial content caters to the Turkish sport fan with comprehensive coverage of Turkey’s most popular sports such as football and basketball. Coverage includes the European football leagues and championships, as well as detailed results and analysis of the Spor Toto Süper Lig. The editorial scope of tr.eurosport.com goes beyond football to offer fans the strongest and widest sports offer in the territory including the Beko Basketbol Ligi, motor sports, basketball, Olympic sports and much more.
Delivering LIVE and up-to-the-minute news, and expert analysis, the portal enables fans to follow every game, every player, every score and every strategy. Unique services such as the LIVE box make sure that fans can follow all the action, all the time. Fans will also enjoy the best video clips from Eurosport’s renowned TV channels.
- Award-winning web design guarantees crisp and clean navigation
- Easy to find content
- Fast and accurate news and results
- Live commentary
- Local and international editorial team of sports experts
- Interactivity through social media
These features, combined with an ability to connect people via communities make this new portal the rallying point of choice for Turkish fans.
About Eurosport Group
The Eurosport Group is Europe’s leading sports entertainment group. Eurosport, the n°1 pan-European TV channel, is broadcast in 20 languages reaching 121 million homes and 240 million viewers across 59 countries. Eurosport HD is the high definition simulcast of Eurosport. Eurosport 2 broadcasts to 46 million households in 16 languages across 47 countries. Eurosport 2 HD was launched in August 2009. Eurosport Asia-Pacific reaches 14 countries in the region. Eurosportnews provides up-to-date sports TV news transmitted worldwide. Online, Eurosport has a network of dedicated sports websites in 11 different languages. Eurosport is ranked as Europe’s N°1 online sports destination and is visited by over 10 million unique users per month (comScore). Eurosport Mobile offers Live streaming, mobile sites and mobile applications in 9 languages providing LIVE sports news and results. Eurosport Events is the group’s expert division in the organisation, management and promotion of international sporting events. For more information, please visit
MCD Digital: Premium Online Network
Established in 2007, MCD Digital is one of the leading digital media companies in Turkey which builds, operates, owns or partners websites and online businesses such as dailymotion.com.tr, mplay.com.tr, eurosport.com/tr and mtv.com.tr. With its strong online network and experienced local teams, MCD Digital’s mission is to develop the overall online user experience in Turkey with quality local and international content and to provide advertisers and partners the best marketing opportunities and advertising solutions. www.mcddigital.net