European soccer arrives on FetchTV
FetchTV scores deals with Man Utd TV and Real Madrid TV
Fox Sports News, Chelsea TV, Man City TV, Barcelona TV already available
Sydney, 14 February 2011 - FetchTV today expanded its sports content with the addition of football club channels from Manchester United and Real Madrid.
The deals give FetchTV subscribers additional sports content, alongside the previously announced Fox Sports News and club channels from Chelsea, Manchester City and Barcelona, to complement the rich sports available on free-to-air TV (FTA).
The club channel's feature highlights and each team's domestic and Champions League action, as well as exclusive interviews, classic matches and insights from the training grounds.
Scott Lorson, CEO FetchTV said: 'This is a great start to our sports content with all the action from five of Europe's footballing powerhouses and 24 hour sports news. With One HD featuring Arsenal TV and Liverpool TV on free-to-air, fans of the European football are increasingly well served.
'Our goal has always been to complement the best FTA content with a quality offering of subscription channels that will appeal to the 70% of Australians that don't currently have pay TV. Our sports content reflects this, with a healthy dose of additional sport on top of the great programming already available.
iiNet customers will receive the football club channels as part of the FetchTV basic subscription which features more than twenty leading subscription channels including six video-on-demand channels, 30 free movies every month and access to new-release pay-per-view movies from major movie studios. The service comes with the most advanced set-top-box in Australia to pause, rewind and record live TV and store up to 500 hours of viewing.
About FetchTV
FetchTV is an Australian founded and owned business, with backing from the Malaysian based ASTRO ALL ASIA NETWORKS subscription TV group.
FetchTV is a wholesale subscription TV provider to leading Australian ISPs. The fetchtv service is unique in that it provides access to digital free-to-air channels, subscription channels, video on-demand and interactive content via an unmetered broadband connection. Content is delivered to the TV in SD and HD quality, instantly with no downloading delays.
FetchTV Australia is not affiliated with FetchTV UK of the same name. The technology deployed and business model are substantively different.
Visit www.fetchtv.com.au for a list of all channels included as part of the service.