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Ziggo launches sports channel on November 12

November 2, 2015 09.36 Europe/London By Robert Briel

Ziggo_SportDutch cable operator Ziggo will launch is ‘free’ sports channel on November 12.

Rumours about the new Ziggo Sport surfaced some tine ago, but Ziggo has now confirmed its plans. The new channel will be available at no additional cost to all digital TV subscribers of the cabler.

Programming will include European Cup and World Cup qualifiers, Formula 1 racing and NBA basketball, Portuguese and Spanish top division football and live coverage of Dutch volleyball and hockey, as well as documentaries, sport related movies and a weekly sports talk show hosted by Jack van Gelder.

Ziggo Sport will draw on the sports rights which are owned by Liberty global’s Sport 1 premium sports channel. The premium channels will be rebranded as Ziggo Sport Totaal, which includes Ziggo Sport Select, Ziggo Sport Voetbal, Ziggo Sport Golf, Ziggo Sport Racing and two Ziggo Sport Extra windows.

The operator is launching the new channel in order to stop people from cancelling their cable subscription – at the moment KPN is gaining IPTV customers at the expense of Dutch cable operators. KPN’s marketing also includes offering exclusive content to its subscribers. Ziggo will offer the channel to its 4.2 million customers, and will be ad-supprted. Triade Media will handle the sales.

Ziggo is now countering these moves by offering a ‘free’ sports channel in addition to its My Prime VOD service, which is available free to most Ziggo customers.

“We have over the past year merged two regional companies [UPC and Ziggo – ed] nto one national cable and media company. We did this because we want to be able to offer our customers in the coming years better products, services, content and innovation,” said Baptiest Coopmans, CEO of Ziggo.

“Our customers have very fast internet, the Horizon television platform, watching TV everywhere via our award-winning app Horizon Go, easy to catch up TV programmes with Replay TV and more than 2,000 films and series via MyPrime. Joining forces makes launching Ziggo Sport now possible. We do this because we are convinced of the value of sports and entertainment for our customers.”

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Filed Under: Editor's Choice, Newsline, Top Story, TV Tagged With: sports, The Netherlands, Ziggo Edited: 3 November 2015 11:42

About Robert Briel

Arnhem-based Robert covers the Benelux, France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as IPTV, web TV, connected TV and OTT. Email Robert at rbriel@broadbandtvnews.com.

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