Global sports streaming subscription service DAZN has struck its first major distribution deal in the US with media giant Comcast.
Starting immediately, DAZN will be made available to Comcast customers who use its Xfinity Flex box for streaming apps. The service will then be accessible for Comcast cable customers on its Xfinity X1 set-top boxes later this autumn.
Comcast user will still have to pay a subscription fee to access DAZN, which is available for US$19.99 per month or US$99.99 for the entire year.
DAZN’s launch on Comcast comes ahead of a series of major combat sports events on the platform, including Gennady Golovkin’s showdown with Sergiy Derevyanchenko, Canelo Alvarez’s bout against Sergey Kovalev and Anthony Joshua’s rematch versus Andy Ruiz.
“We’re thrilled to give our Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Flex customers access to DAZN’s live and on-demand programming starting this fall just in time for some of the most highly anticipated events in sports this year,” said Daniel Spinosa, vice president of entertainment services for Comcast Cable.
“With new content from partners like DAZN, coupled with our aggregated UI, X1 is the best way to experience live sports at home, and with Flex we can extend this great content, integrated experience and voice control to our Internet-only customers directly on their TVs.”
DAZN said the partnership with Comcast is the first in a new global initiative called ‘DAZN for Operators’. Ben King, the company’s senior vice president of global distribution and business development, told Reuters the company is in talks to replicate the deal with other cable, satellite and internet providers in each of its nine markets.
“DAZN for Operators is our new partnership program, in which we collaborate with the world’s leading pay TV operators, ISPs and mobile carriers to make the live sports experience even more accessible and better to watch for fans,” King added in a statement. “We couldn’t think of a better inaugural partner than Comcast.”
DAZN’s partnership with Comcast comes one year after its launch in the US. Since then the company has acquired rights to an array of combat sports, while it also has a deal with Major League Baseball (MLB) for a live cut-in show, similar to the National Football League’s (NFL) RedZone.
Global sports streaming subscription service DAZN has struck its first major distribution deal in the US with media giant Comcast.
Starting immediately, DAZN will be made available to Comcast customers who use its Xfinity Flex box for streaming apps. The service will then be accessible for Comcast cable customers on its Xfinity X1 set-top boxes later this autumn.
Comcast user will still have to pay a subscription fee to access DAZN, which is available for US$19.99 per month or US$99.99 for the entire year.
DAZN’s launch on Comcast comes ahead of a series of major combat sports events on the platform, including Gennady Golovkin’s showdown with Sergiy Derevyanchenko, Canelo Alvarez’s bout against Sergey Kovalev and Anthony Joshua’s rematch versus Andy Ruiz.
“We’re thrilled to give our Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Flex customers access to DAZN’s live and on-demand programming starting this fall just in time for some of the most highly anticipated events in sports this year,” said Daniel Spinosa, vice president of entertainment services for Comcast Cable.
“With new content from partners like DAZN, coupled with our aggregated UI, X1 is the best way to experience live sports at home, and with Flex we can extend this great content, integrated experience and voice control to our Internet-only customers directly on their TVs.”
DAZN said the partnership with Comcast is the first in a new global initiative called ‘DAZN for Operators’. Ben King, the company’s senior vice president of global distribution and business development, told Reuters the company is in talks to replicate the deal with other cable, satellite and internet providers in each of its nine markets.
“DAZN for Operators is our new partnership program, in which we collaborate with the world’s leading pay TV operators, ISPs and mobile carriers to make the live sports experience even more accessible and better to watch for fans,” King added in a statement. “We couldn’t think of a better inaugural partner than Comcast.”
DAZN’s partnership with Comcast comes one year after its launch in the US. Since then the company has acquired rights to an array of combat sports, while it also has a deal with Major League Baseball (MLB) for a live cut-in show, similar to the National Football League’s (NFL) RedZone.
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