About Fast Sports TV

Fast Sports TV

Fast Sports TV, branded as FastSports, is a specialist sports television service based in Yerevan, Armenia, broadcasting in Armenian. It is the sports channel family of the Fast TV pay television and streaming platform, which operates three sports channels, FastSports, FastSports 1 and FastSports 2. Fast TV holds the exclusive rights in Armenia for the UEFA Champions League under a deal agreed with UEFA in 2024 and running to the end of the 2026-27 edition, with coverage spread across the three FastSports channels and every match available to subscribers. The service also carries other major football leagues and competitions and a broad range of sports through the Fast TV application. In Armenia's free-to-air system, Fast Sport is significant beyond its pay audience: the Media Ownership Monitor lists it as one of the five board member channels of the audience measurement Industrial Committee established in 2024, alongside the country's largest broadcasters. This profile documents the channels, rights, distribution and industry position of Fast Sports from published sources.

Identity, Ownership Context and Language

Fast Sports TV is headquartered in Yerevan and broadcasts in Armenian, providing Armenian-language presentation of international sport. Directory data underlying this profile lists the service as Fast Sport or Fastsports among Armenia's multiplex channels and industry measurement participants, and Telecom Armenia's customer notices direct questions about the FastSports package to Fast Media company, identifying the operating business behind the channels as Fast Media. The channels form the core of Fast TV, described in its application listing as an Armenian streaming service for sports and movies, offering live streaming and video on demand. Unlike Armenia's generalist channels, Fast Sports is a rights-led business: its value rests on exclusive sports rights, subscription distribution through television platforms and its app, and continuous live event coverage, rather than on original entertainment production. The service should not be confused with free-to-air general channels that carry occasional sport; sport is its entire proposition, and its three-channel structure exists to handle simultaneous live events, above all European football nights when many matches kick off at the same time.

The Three FastSports Channels

Fast TV's sports offer is built from three channels: Fast Sports, Fast Sports 1 and Fast Sports 2. The platform's application description states that its library includes the three sports channels together with Fast Originals, top leagues, movies and other content, accessible on any device anywhere in Armenia, with multi-screen access and high-quality streaming. The three-channel structure is a practical response to the shape of sports rights. On a Champions League evening, up to eight matches may be played simultaneously; a single channel can show only one live match in full, while three channels plus app streaming, which the platform says can provide more than fifty simultaneous online sports broadcasts, allow the rights holder to offer subscribers every match. Listings services consequently treat the FastSports channels as a family, publishing schedules and rights information for Fast TV as a whole and for Fast Sports 2 individually. The flagship FastSports channel is the service's public face in the free-to-air and industry context, while FastSports 1 and 2 function primarily as overflow and pay package channels.

UEFA Champions League Rights

The defining asset of Fast Sports is the UEFA Champions League. According to Live Soccer TV's rights database, Fast TV holds the exclusive rights in Armenia for the competition, under a deal agreed with UEFA in 2024 that runs until the end of the 2026-27 edition. Coverage is spread across the three FastSports channels on Armenian television, and FastSports holds the rights to show every match, from the early stages of the competition through to the final each season. Live Champions League streaming in Armenia is available through the Fast TV app, which can be downloaded free on iOS and Android, while a subscription fee is required to access FastSports on linear television and through the app. Alongside live matches, FastSports produces Champions League magazine and review shows so subscribers stay up to date with the tournament. Exclusive control of Europe's premier club competition is the strongest commercial position in Armenian sports broadcasting, because the Champions League is the most consistently watched club football property in the country, and it anchors the FastSports subscription proposition around which other rights are assembled.

Other Sports and Competitions

Beyond the Champions League, the Fast TV application advertises unlimited access to UEFA club competitions and national competitions, and names Spain's La Liga, Italy's Serie A, France's Ligue 1 and Germany's Bundesliga among its football offer, together with the NBA in basketball, Formula 1 in motor racing, the NHL in ice hockey, ATP 1000 Masters tennis, martial arts, boxing and other exclusive tournaments. The platform also streams Fast TV originals and an extensive library of movies, sports documentaries, animations and audio content, offers real-time reminders for upcoming matches and programmes, and provides electronic programme guide access for catching up on missed programmes. Rights in sports broadcasting change cycle by cycle and differ by competition and platform, so this list should be read as the platform's advertised offer at the time of its current application description rather than as a permanent rights portfolio. One caution from the listings record illustrates the point: a listings page for Fast Sports 2 noted no upcoming soccer listings at the time it was checked, a normal condition for overflow channels between event periods rather than evidence about the service as a whole.

Distribution: Linear Television and the Fast TV App

Fast Sports reaches viewers through two connected routes. On linear television, the channels are carried in pay packages on Armenian platforms; a subscription is required, distinguishing FastSports from the free generalist channels of the public multiplex even though Fast Sport also appears in multiplex and measurement contexts. Through the Fast TV app, subscribers stream the channels and on-demand content on phones, tablets and other devices, with simultaneous streaming on multiple screens at no extra payment according to the platform's description, flexible month-to-month and annual subscriptions, pay-per-view purchase for selected content, and cancellation at any time through account settings. The application was updated in January 2026 in its current listing, indicating an actively maintained product. This dual distribution is the modern sports broadcasting model in a small market: the linear channels serve traditional pay television households, while the app captures younger viewers, provides the capacity for dozens of simultaneous live streams that linear television cannot match, and creates a direct billing relationship between Fast Media and its subscribers.

Changes on Team Telecom Armenia's Platform

The distribution picture is not static, and one documented change deserves record. Telecom Armenia, one of the country's major telecommunications operators, published a customer notice dated 20 March announcing the discontinuation of the FastSport package on its TeamTV service. The notice stated that the sale of the FastSports package, including the channels FastSport 1 and FastSport 2 available on TeamTV, had been discontinued, and that from 20 April of that year the broadcasting of those channels on the platform would also be terminated, directing customers with questions to Fast Media company. The notice concerns one distributor's package and two of the three channels, not the existence of the FastSports service itself, which continues to be listed by rights databases and through its own application. Carriage disputes and package restructurings of this kind are common in pay television, where platform operators and rights holders periodically renegotiate terms. For this profile the notice is valuable chiefly as dated, primary evidence of how the FastSports channels were packaged and sold through a major Armenian platform, and of the distinction between the flagship channel and its numbered companions.

Fast Sport in the Multiplex and Measurement System

Fast Sport's industry standing in Armenia is larger than its niche might suggest. The Media Ownership Monitor's account of the country's audience measurement system records that a 2024 law amendment established an Industrial Committee in March 2024 to organise tenders for new measurement providers, with thirteen multiplex broadcasters participating. Five channels serve as the committee's board members and pay monthly membership fees of 350,000 Armenian drams: the First Channel, Armenia TV, Shant TV, Fast Sport and Kentron. The remaining eight channels pay reduced fees of 50,000 drams. Fast Sport's presence in the board group is striking: a specialist sports service sits at the top table of Armenian television industry organisation alongside the public flagship and the three largest private generalists, reflecting both the commercial weight of sports rights in the market and the channel's multiplex participation. In the Caucasus Barometer 2024 survey, Fastsports appeared as a named answer option for the television trust question and was grouped with other smaller options in the published results, a reminder that a sports channel's influence is measured in subscriptions and rights value rather than in news trust.

The Armenian Sports Broadcasting Market

Fast Sports operates in a market where sport, and football above all, is among the most valuable television content. Armenia's own football, administered by the Football Federation of Armenia, its national team and its European club representatives, generates strong domestic interest, amplified by the Armenian diaspora's attachment to the national side, but the largest reliable audiences follow the European club competitions and the major continental leagues. Historically, Armenian viewers watched much of this content through the generalist channels or Russian and international services. The emergence of a dedicated domestic rights holder offering every Champions League match with Armenian presentation through a local platform and app mirrors the global shift of premium sport behind paywalls and into streaming. For Armenian broadcasters without such rights, sport has correspondingly retreated from free schedules. Fast Sports's model, exclusive rights, three linear channels, app streaming with dozens of simultaneous events, original magazine programming around the Champions League, and flexible subscriptions, is the fullest expression of that shift in the Armenian market documented in public sources.

What Is and Is Not Documented

The public record on Fast Sports is strong on rights and distribution and thin on corporate detail. This profile found no reliable published source for Fast Media's ownership structure, founding date, staff numbers or financial results, and no subscriber number for the Fast TV platform is claimed here, because none is published in the sources used. Sports rights are time-limited by definition: the Champions League exclusivity documented here runs to the end of the 2026-27 edition under the 2024 agreement, and other advertised competitions are subject to their own cycles, so readers should treat the rights sections as a record of the position established by the cited sources rather than a guarantee of future coverage. One listings source contains an obvious error in describing the language of Champions League programming on FastSports, which this profile has disregarded in favour of the consistent evidence that the service broadcasts in Armenian for the Armenian market. The channel's own application listing and the rights databases remain the most current public guides to its offer.

Assessment

Fast Sports TV is Armenia's dedicated sports television service: a Yerevan-based, Armenian-language, subscription-led operation whose three channels, FastSports, FastSports 1 and FastSports 2, are built around exclusive UEFA Champions League rights held for Armenia from 2024 to the end of the 2026-27 edition, an advertised portfolio spanning Europe's major leagues, the NBA, Formula 1, the NHL and top-level tennis, and a streaming application capable of carrying more than fifty simultaneous live broadcasts. Its board membership of the thirteen-channel Industrial Committee, at the highest fee tier alongside the country's biggest broadcasters, confirms a commercial significance out of proportion to a single-genre channel. Distribution changes on individual platforms, such as Telecom Armenia's termination of the FastSport 1 and 2 package on TeamTV, affect where viewers find the channels but not the underlying rights business operated by Fast Media. For a world media directory, Fast Sports is catalogued as the specialist sports pillar of Armenian television in the streaming era.