Fetch TV adds more beIN SPORTS channels
Triple channel sports channel from Fetch offers football, rugby and tennis.
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Fetch TV has announced a new sports pack with all three beIN SPORTS channels with football, rugby and tennis.
Fetch previously offered 1 of their channels but the new sports pack at $19.99 a month carries a $14.95introductory offer until the end of September.
Mike Kerr, MD beIN Asia Pacific for Asia & ANZ said, “We are delighted to expand our agreement with Fetch TV to include the full suite of beIN SPORTS channels. Fetch and its partners have achieved significant scale and we look forward to working alongside them to deliver the best sports experience to our viewers in Australia.”
Scott Lorson, CEO Fetch TV said, “Fetch is thrilled to announce the addition of the new beIN SPORTS Pack, featuring massively popular European football and rugby, which are sure to be a huge hit with our subscribers. Along with our partners, we are committed to providing a market leading entertainment service, with continuous enhancements to our content offering.”
The beIN SPORTS channels will be broadcast in HD* with no requirement for subscribers to have any pre-requisite channel packs, making this a compelling offer for football fans.
Fetch Subscribers will have access to beIN SPORTS’ full comprehensive line up of premium sports, including:
• Football: Serie A, LaLiga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, English Championship, Carabao Cup and more.
• International Test rugby: Wallabies & All Blacks November tests, 6 Nations
• Tennis: WTA Tour, Davis Cup and Fed Cup.
Fetch now offers the following sports content, all broadcast in HD*
• All Free to Air (FTA) Sport
• beIN SPORTS 1, 2 and 3
• ESPN and ESPN2 – featuring NBA, NFL, MLB, FA Cup, X Games, and US Open Tennis
• EDGEsport – featuring live UFC including 20 Fight Nights per annum, prelims for numbered cards, and various associated UFC content, plus a range of action sports including Skate, Motocross, BMX, Surf, Snowsports, Rallycross and Speedway.
• Pay Per View events including all numbered UFC fight cards.
• Premier League via Optus Sport (available to Optus customers and Fetch retail direct subscribers).
* Channels are broadcast in HD. Resolution received varies by User, depending on available bandwidth.
2 Responses
It’s easy to think that sports broadcasting could become a bit aggravating for sports fans in the future, some foretaste of this was the World Cup football rights which became a bit of a dogs breakfast untill the full coverage went to it’s natural home on the SBS. With a relatively small population Australian’s do need some certainty of where to source their entertainment or it could become a too many cooks spoil the broth situation, unfortunately the increasing commercial competition between the telcos makes this very unlikely.
If Fetch could somehow work a way to get the streaming rights for AFL (and NRL for those viewers) off Telstra or at the least get a deal to show it via Telstra (adding their App to the the Fetch Apps section), it would be wonderful to have. Even if just as a seasons pass type of deal and to get fullscreen instead of the limited Telstra screen size, which even doesn’t like you screen mirroring.