Champions League nights on Tivo8k, from the early kick-off to the late one

Champions League broadcasters on the Tivo8k list

European club football is licensed one country at a time, in cycles of a few years, so the names below are the broadcasters that hold it in each market in recent seasons, every one of them a channel in our list. In several countries the rights holder airs a selection on its TV channels and streams the rest on a platform that is not a channel at all, which means not every match of a round shows up in a live guide. The guide on the night tells you which ones do.

• United Kingdom: TNT Sports 1–4, in English.
• United States: CBS in English; Univision, TUDN and UniMás in Spanish.
• Middle East and North Africa: beIN Sports 1–9, in Arabic.
• France: Canal+, in French.
• Italy: Sky Sport IT, in Italian.
• Germany: DAZN DE, in German.

Champions League channels on Tivo8k

• TNT Sports 1–4
• CBS
• Univision
• TUDN
• UniMás
• beIN Sports 1–9
• Canal+
• Sky Sport IT
• DAZN DE

Two kick-off times, and what they look like where you live

A normal match night uses an early slot at 6:45 p.m. and a later one at 9 p.m., Central European Time, with most matches in the later one. Europe and North America change their clocks on different weekends, and the Gulf does not change at all, so some conversions shift by an hour in spring and autumn:

In the current format, every match on the last evening of the league phase starts at the same moment, which is the night a second screen earns its cost. Later rounds thin out to a handful of matches per evening.

Before the first match night, check the time zone of the device that runs your player. Listings are converted with its clock, so a stick still set to another country shows every kick-off at the wrong hour. The Tivo8k program guide page deals with listings that look early or late.

Following two matches at once without losing either

Midweek European football is where a single screen most often stops being enough. There are three ways to handle a night with two matches you care about:

1. Two screens. The main match on the television, the other on a tablet or a second set. Each is a stream, so you need a plan with two screens or more: $25 for a month, or $35 with three screens, and less per month on longer terms, as the Tivo8k price table shows.
2. Multi-view in the player. TiviMate Premium can show more than one channel on the same television. Each window is still a separate stream, so the plan needs one screen per window, and your line needs room for both.
3. One screen and a short favorites row. Put the two broadcasters side by side so swapping matches takes one press; setting up favorites in TiviMate takes a few minutes.

Whichever you choose, open both streams a few minutes before kick-off rather than on the whistle, when much of a continent presses play together.

Choosing the language of the commentary

The same match is often covered by broadcasters in several countries at once, and all of those listed above are in your channel list. That turns language into a decision: TNT Sports or CBS for English, Univision or TUDN for Spanish, beIN for Arabic, Canal+ for French. A bilingual home can split the evening, the big match in one language on the television and the second match in the other language on a tablet.

Where a broadcaster sends a second audio track on the same channel, the audio menu of your player lists it; where it does not, moving to another broadcaster is how you change voices. French-speaking viewers will find their wider line-up on French TV and audio. Weekend league football in England has its own page, the Premier League on Tivo8k.

The picture, the sound and the replay

The biggest European nights are increasingly produced in 4K, and when a broadcaster sends a match in 4K, that is how it arrives; the rest of the evening plays in FHD or HD. Two 4K matches at once double what the line has to carry, so with two screens running, one in 4K and one in FHD is the comfortable split. Tivo8k 4K requirements cover the device and the connection.

A floodlit stadium is what surround sound was made for. Where a feed carries 5.1, a soundbar can spread the crowd around the room, provided the player passes the audio through and the HDMI link supports it; our guide to soundbar settings goes through each step.

For the match that played while you watched the other one, or the one that ended after midnight where you live, catch-up helps on channels that keep an archive: go back in the guide and start the broadcast from the beginning. How replay works on Tivo8k explains which channels keep one. Stay off the news channels until you have seen it.

Other sports on Tivo8k

All of them on one page: Sports.