Launched on 26 March 2010, it was the idea from the former Malaysian Minister of Youth and Sports YB.

Astro Arena is a 4-in-one channel featuring live local sports, a comprehensive 7-day-a-week coverage of local and international sports news, informative magazine and information programming and interactive viewer involvement.

The channel delivers 700 hours of live, local sports a year, with an additional 2000 hours of replays greatly expanding the amount of local sports available in the country.

[1] On 24 February 2023, Astro Arena will rebroadcast the Malaysian League match since their last broadcast on 2014.

It broadcasts the rematch that will officially start involving the Sumbangsih Cup action between Johor Darul Ta'zim (JDT) against Terengganu FC (TFC) via channels 803 and 804.