fuboTV Acquires Exclusive Premier League Rights in Canada Beginning With 2022/2023 Season
13 1월 2022 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
fuboTV Inc. (NYSE: FUBO), the leading sports-first live TV
streaming platform, announced today that it will be the exclusive
home to the Premier League, England’s top soccer league, in the
Canadian market for the next three seasons beginning in
2022/2023.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
fuboTV will exclusively carry all 380 Premier League matches
each season and shoulder programming on its growing Canadian
platform through the 2024/2025 season. All content will stream live
on fuboTV and its linear channel, Fubo Sports Network.
fuboTV scores the Premier League deal for Canada just a few
months after acquiring exclusive Italian Serie A and Coppa Italia
rights in the market, fortifying the platform’s position as the
leading streaming service for top-tier soccer in the country. In
addition to exclusive rights, fuboTV streams more than a dozen
popular sports and entertainment channels including OneSoccer and
Paramount Network, home to one of TV’s hottest dramas,
Yellowstone.
“The Premier League is considered to be the best soccer league
in the world and has a huge fan base in Canada,” said David
Gandler, co-founder and CEO, fuboTV. “This deal allows us to bring
yet another top-notch property to fuboTV, further differentiating
our content offering, and giving Canadians another reason to cut
the cord for exciting, exclusive sports content.”
“The Premier League is very happy to partner with fuboTV in
Canada,” said Paul Molnar, chief media officer, Premier League. “We
know there are many passionate Premier League fans in Canada and we
are very pleased that fuboTV views the Premier League as such an
important part of its programming mix in this market. We look
forward to working together to bring the excitement of the Premier
League to both new and existing fans.”
In addition to its soccer rights in Canada, fuboTV has exclusive
streaming rights to the Qatar World Cup 2022 Qualifying matches of
the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) in the United
States.
About fuboTV
With a mission to provide the world’s most thrilling
sports-first live TV experience through the greatest breadth of
premium content, interactivity and integrated wagering, fuboTV Inc.
(NYSE: FUBO) is focused on bringing to life its vision of a
streaming platform that transcends the industry’s current virtual
MVPD model. fuboTV Inc. operates in the U.S., Canada, Spain and,
through its acquisition of Molotov, in France.
Leveraging its proprietary data and technology platform
optimized for live TV and sports viewership, fuboTV Inc. aims to
turn passive viewers into active participants and define a new
category of interactive sports and entertainment television. The
company's cable TV replacement product, fuboTV, offers subscribers
more than 100 live sports, news and entertainment networks and is
the only live TV streaming platform with every Nielsen-rated sports
channel (source: Nielsen Total Viewers, 2021). Subscribers can
interact with fuboTV’s live streaming experience through predictive
free-to-play games, which are integrated into select sports
content.
Fubo Gaming Inc., a subsidiary of fuboTV Inc., launched Fubo
Sportsbook, a next-generation mobile sportsbook purpose-built to
integrate with fuboTV, in 2021.
About Premier League
The Premier League produces some of the most competitive and
compelling football in the world. The League and its clubs use the
power and popularity of the competition to inspire fans,
communities and partners in the UK and across the world. The
Premier League brings people together from all backgrounds. It is a
competition for everyone, everywhere and is available to watch in
880 million homes in 190 countries.
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Investor Contacts Alison Sternberg, fuboTV
asternberg@fubo.tv The Blueshirt Group for fuboTV ir@fubo.tv
Media Contacts Jennifer L. Press, fuboTV jpress@fubo.tv
Bianca Illion, fuboTV billion@fubo.tv
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