ViacomCBS reaches deal to stream UEFA Champions League matches

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ViacomCBS reaches deal to stream UEFA Champions League matches

Cristiano Ronaldo of Juventus evades problem from Frenkie de Jong of Ajax in the course of the UEFA Champions League Quarter Remaining second leg m


Cristiano Ronaldo of Juventus evades problem from Frenkie de Jong of Ajax in the course of the UEFA Champions League Quarter Remaining second leg match between Juventus and Ajax at Allianz Stadium on April 16, 2019 in Turin, Italy.

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ViacomCBS will develop into the unique English language streamer of UEFA Champions League video games within the U.S. starting in August, in time for the conclusion of the 2019-20 season. Beforehand, ViacomCBS’s rights settlement started in 2021. The UEFA (Union of European Soccer Associations) is the umbrella European soccer group for 55 nationwide soccer associations throughout Europe

CBS All Entry, ViacomCBS’s flagship streaming service, will live-stream all UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League matches beginning in August by 2024. The deal additionally contains UEFA Tremendous Cup matches and UEFA Europa Convention League matches starting in 2021. CBS can even air choose matches on its linear broadcast community and its cable sports activities community CBS Sports activities Community.

“This can be a landmark acquisition for CBS as we add the world’s hottest sport to our intensive portfolio of marquee properties,” mentioned Sean McManus, CBS Sports activities chairman, in a press release.

ViacomCBS is readying a launch of an expanded CBS All Entry that pulls on Viacom properties. The brand new, enhanced service will “mushy launch” later this yr. CBS All Entry already stands other than many subscription video providers by together with dwell sports activities, similar to Nationwide Soccer League video games. ViacomCBS hasn’t introduced a value for its new service. CBS All Entry at the moment prices $5.99 per thirty days with commercials and $9.99 per thirty days with out advertisements. 

European soccer plans to return to motion together with a lot of U.S. sports activities this summer time, together with Main League Baseball, the Nationwide Hockey League and the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation. NBCUniversal’s subscription video service Peacock will dwell stream Premiere League video games when it launches nationally on July 15. Premiere League restarted its season in June. 

CBS All Entry will start streaming video games in August with Spherical of 16 matches. The complete schedule for the August event together with occasions, platforms and announcers will likely be launched within the coming weeks.

“This partnership marks a serious step in our service’s growth into unique sports activities content material and we’re thrilled to ship greater than 300 UEFA matches every season,” Marc DeBevoise, Chief Digital Officer of ViacomCBS, mentioned within the assertion.

Disclosure: Comcast is the proprietor of NBCUniversal, the mother or father firm of CNBC and CNBC.com.

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