Wednesday 20 March 2024

Broadband TV News: DAZN secure PGA Tour exclusive in MENA and South East Asia

Story from Broadband TV News:

DAZN will offer a FAST channel and global ‘freemium’ service as part of its coverage of the PGA Tour.

The PGA Tour Pass on DAZN will feature four live and exclusive feeds (Main Feed, Marquee Group, Featured Groups and Featured Holes) in a standalone subscription across the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia.

DAZN will also distribute a global PGA TOUR FAST Channel as part of its FAST, Freemium, offer, though this won’t be available in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Spain, France, Australia, and China.

Shay Segev, DAZN Group CEO, said: “DAZN strives to give fans what they want as well as delivering reach and value for rights holders – our technology and scale allows us to do this.

“DAZN is committed to building a platform that delivers on the growth potential that the digitisation of sports media consumption is generating. Fans want dedicated channels where they can access content in a new and different ways, when and how they want. There are different levels of fandom that DAZN can cater for with our freemium and social offerings. DAZN is delivering this, and all in one place.”

There will be four additional and exclusive feeds per event that will commence 7.5 hours before the main TV broadcast window.

MENA os defined here as Bahrain, Oman, Libya, Qatar, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Libya, Egypt, Morocco, Iraq, Tunisia, and Yemen and Southeast Asia as Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia.

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