Optus confirms UEFA soccer coverage for the next three years
Optus has formally announced its deal with the Union of European Football Associations which will see it hold the Australian rights to the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Europa League and the UEFA Super Cup for the next three years.
The deal became public last month, and forms part of Optus’ strategy to entice subscribers with premium European soccer content which has seen the telco pick up market share in the fiercely contested mobile phone market.
I find Optus very handy. I can watch on the phone at silly o’clock, whilst my wife snoozes next to me. Or, I can cast to the TV from my phone – that is my method. It is a pain in the 4653 when it goes down, however I will hand it to them that to transition to a far more portable format that cable, there will be some coughs and splutters. (I can remember watching football via Sky in Europe and in a rain storm the satellite image was affected….).
Foxtel, imho is a monopoly and once that gets broken up, we are all better for it. I will love to read an article on the future of sports broadcasting. Surely the EPL could make more money by allowing anyone to publish, for a fee and the accumulative revenues would be far higher than what they receive from one (Optus?) YouTube would be my preference. I know others would prefer Amazon and others probably Facebook, as an example… It would be an interesting read. Be an interesting survey to knock out also to gather the intel. How will I be watching the EPL in 5 years time? (Direct from my club perhaps…?)
European Union Football Association?
We’ve fixed the headline, Typo.
This typo is symbolic of the Australian media’s eagerness to jump on the angle of “Optus screwed up the WC and has won rights to more soccer”.
Anyone who knows how to pronounce “Leicester City” or “James Rodriguez” knows that Optus has been adequately streaming the soccer for years now and that this deal actually provides unprecedented coverage of the Champions League that’s probably unmatched anywhere else in the world.
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I am happy as long as there are no streaming issue as i wont be happy if there are streaming issues .no need for Foxtel anymore i only watch soccer. the European kind its all on optus . I have loved their world cup EPL coverage on fetch the on demand stuff is brilliant .
More streaming matches that I won’t be able to watch.