IPTV Channel List Cyprus: RIK 1 & 2, Greek, UK & Sports Channels with EPG

A headline channel count tells you almost nothing. What matters in a Cypriot living room is whether RIK 1 is there for the evening news, whether Cytavision Sports and Sky Sports are both in the list when APOEL and Liverpool play on the same night, and whether the guide shows the right times. This IPTV channel list Cyprus guide groups the line-up the way our subscribers actually use it, with notes on picture quality, catch-up and EPG coverage that we checked on a Cyta Fiber Home 1 Gbps line in Strovolos, a Cablenet GigaFiber line in a Germasogeia apartment and a Primetel Fiber line in Kato Paphos.

Treat the tables as a snapshot. The live reference for our IPTV Cyprus line-up is the searchable channel guide on the homepage. You can filter it by country or type a channel name before you spend a cent.

Cypriot channels: RIK 1, RIK 2, Omega, ANT1, Sigma and Alpha

Every IPTV channel list Cyprus viewers ask about starts here, at the top of the playlist. CyBC provides the two public channels; the rest are the big private broadcasters. "Selected" catch-up means some programmes, not the whole schedule.

The Cypriot feeds were the steadiest group in our checks: zero rebuffers on the RIK 1 evening news across a fortnight in Strovolos, and the Kato Paphos line matched it. Greek content takes the next-shortest hop, to Athens (see the peering map).

Greek channels: ERT, Mega, Skai, Alpha, Star and Open

For most Cypriot households Greek television is everyday viewing, and this is one of our largest groups. A useful quirk: Greece and Cyprus share the same clock, so the times printed in Greek listings are already Cyprus time.

Greek Super League kick-offs need no conversion. Greek sports feeds are the ones most affected by rights changes, so check the guide on match day.

Sports channels: Cypriot networks, Sky Sports, TNT and 4K

Sport is where most people judge an IPTV provider in Cyprus.

The Cypriot First Division (APOEL, Omonia, Anorthosis, AEL Limassol, Apollon Limassol, AEK Larnaca, Pafos FC) moves between the local networks depending on each club's deal. For UK matches, use the kick-off time converter: a UK 12:30 start is 14:30 in Cyprus, 15:00 becomes 17:00, 17:30 becomes 19:30 and a 20:00 Monday game is 22:00. Champions League nights go out at 19:45 and 22:00 local time. Our Premier League and live sport guide goes deeper on which matches sit where.

UK entertainment, UK news and international news

British retirees around Paphos and Larnaca, families near the bases at Akrotiri and Dhekelia and many Cypriots who studied in the UK want the familiar names. The UK group includes regional BBC One and ITV1 variants where the feed exists.

Remember the two-hour gap: the BBC News at Ten starts at midnight here,. The EPG handles the shift automatically, provided the device time zone is right.

Russian- and Ukrainian-language packages, kids, docs and VOD

Russian- and Ukrainian-language packages

Limassol has a large Russian- and Ukrainian-speaking community. The playlist carries separate Russian-language and Ukrainian-language folders with news, entertainment, films, kids' channels and sport, each listed under its own group so you can hide the one you do not need. EPG coverage there ran at around 85–90% on our sample evening. Arabic, German, French, Scandinavian, South Asian and Filipino packs sit in their own folders too.

Kids and documentaries

CBeebies, CBBC, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and Disney-branded channels sit next to Greek-dubbed kids' channels. TiviMate can PIN-lock an entire group. Documentaries: Discovery, National Geographic, History and Sky Documentaries.

The VOD library

Every plan adds a library of films and series, many with Greek subtitles. For VOD, use IPTV Smarters on the same login; TiviMate shows live TV only.

Every IPTV Cyprus subscription includes this full channel list plus VOD, FHD/4K where available, an EPG on Cyprus time and catch-up on selected channels. One connection is included; extras on request via WhatsApp. The 12-month plan is roughly €4.92 a month. Payment is by Visa or Mastercard card, and cards issued by Cypriot and other EU banks normally work online with 3-D Secure. See the IPTV Cyprus price list; every plan has a 30-day money-back guarantee.

How the EPG works on Cyprus time (and fixing a 1–2 hour offset)

Behind the on-screen guide sits an XMLTV file. Each programme entry has a channel ID, start and stop times, a title and a description, and every time carries a UTC offset, e.g. 20261115200000 +0000 for a programme starting at 20:00 UK time in November. Your player converts it to the device clock. That is why almost every "wrong guide" problem is a device setting, not a broken EPG.

Cyprus time in one paragraph

Cyprus runs on Eastern European Time: UTC+2 in winter (EET) and UTC+3 in summer (EEST), changing on the same weekends as the rest of the EU. That puts Cyprus two hours ahead of the UK all year and one hour ahead of Italy, Spain and Germany. Set the box to Nicosia, or Athens, which is identical, and the 20:00 UK programme above shows at 22:00.

Fixing a guide that is one or two hours out

1. Firestick: Settings > Preferences > Time Zone > Europe > Nicosia (or Athens).
2. Android TV / Google TV: Settings > System > Date & time > turn on automatic time zone, or pick Nicosia (Eastern European Time) by hand.
3. TiviMate: Settings > EPG > EPG time shift = 0, then Update EPG.
4. IPTV Smarters Pro: Settings > Time Format / EPG time shift = 0, then reload the guide from the home screen.

In Kato Paphos, a Firestick bought in the UK arrived set to London; one menu change fixed every channel. Use a time shift only for a single odd channel, and tell us so we can fix the mapping.

How the guide gets into your app

With an Xtream Codes login the EPG loads automatically. With an M3U playlist you add the XMLTV link separately, usually http://server:port/xmltv.php?username=XXX&password=YYY. Our Xtream Codes setup guide and the interactive setup tabs show both methods.

Catch-up

Catch-up replays programmes from the last one to seven days on selected channels: RIK 1, the big Greek channels and most UK public service channels. In TiviMate those channels show a small clock-and-arrow icon; scroll left in the guide and press OK on a past programme to play it.

Search the IPTV channel list Cyprus homes get: favourites and groups

With thousands of channels, scrolling is hopeless.

Search

Before you buy, use the homepage channel search: type "RIK", "Skai" or "Sky Sports Main" and filter by country. Inside TiviMate, press left for the side menu, choose the magnifying glass and type three or four letters of the name.

Favourites

1. Highlight a channel and long-press OK.
2. Choose Add to favourites. A Favourites group appears at the top of the list.
3. To reorder, long-press inside Favourites and choose Move: RIK 1, ERT1, BBC One and your main sports channel first.

Favourites and catch-up need TiviMate Premium, a separate low-cost licence from the app developer.

Hide groups you never watch

Settings > Playlists > your playlist > Manage groups, then untick unused folders. A British couple in Peyia might keep only Cypriot, UK and Sport.

Slow zapping or stalls? Our buffering fix guide covers the Wi-Fi side.

Still comparing? See the best IPTV Cyprus buying guide and our IPTV vs Cytavision cost comparison.

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