DAZN, the sports streaming platform, will be the global home of the American 7s Football League (A7FL) . The partnership – which starts this week – brings this growing American football league to audiences worldwide. The American 7s Football League sees athletes relying on skill, agilit, and physicality, as they play without helmets or shoulder […]
Until recently, watching niche sports, like Australian Football League (AFL) matches, outside of their original region was a challenge. Broadcast coverage was limited, and international fans often relied on unofficial streams or delayed replays. That is changing. Through a coordinated digital strategy involving streaming platforms, subscription services, and targeted online content, niche sports now extend […]
Fans in the UK and Ireland will be able to watch every race of the 2025 Repco Supercars Championship season as well as every game of the Australian Football League (AFL) on TNT Sports and discovery+ through new rights deals. TNT Sports is set to show two of Australia’s biggest sports in 2025, becoming the […]
CommScope,a specialist in network connectivity, has licensed fibre optic solution leader AFL to manufacture CommScope Prodigy universal fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) hardened connectivity solutions. Together, AFL and CommScope are addressing the growing needs of global FTTH installations, including business-as-usual and government-subsidized projects. The Prodigy line of connectivity solutions leverages revolutionary convertor technology that allows it to provide seamless, backwards […]
DAZN, the sports streaming platform, has announcde a new non-exclusive broadcast deal with the Arena Football League to bring play-off and ArenaBowl action from the AFL to a global audience. This deal will leverage DAZN’s presence in over 200 territories to grow the popularity of the league and offer fans around the world an accessible […]
The AFL (Australian Football League), the governing body of Australian rules football, has announced the biggest broadcast rights deal in Australian sporting history after extending its partnership with the Seven Network, Foxtel and Telstra for another seven seasons. The League’s current broadcast rights deal goes for another two years, through to the end of 2024, […]
Dalet, a technology and service provider for media-rich organisations, has announced that the Australian Football League (AFL) is using Dalet Flex to manage the cloud-based digitisation and workflow modernisation project of its video archives. The subscription-based implementation of Dalet’s cloud-native media logistics, which was done in collaboration with partner Telstra Broadcast Services, enables AFL to […]
Australians streamed 20 billion minutes of premium online video in January-September 2021, according to a report from Media Partners Asia (MPA) measuring the Australian streaming economy. SVoD platforms drove 70 per cent of premium video streaming, while BVoDs took 30 per cent. The report, titled Australia Online Video Consumer Insights & Analytics, leverages MPA’s proprietary […]
Data from Roy Morgan shows over 7.5 million Australians aged 14+ (36 per cent) watched AFL matches on TV at least occasionally in 2020 including AFL pre-season games, AFL Home & Away games, AFL Finals, the AFL Women’s competition or the show-piece AFL Grand Final. Overall TV viewership of the AFL was up slightly in […]
Ahead of the 2021 AFL season kicking off this week, BT Sport has announced the return of The Aussie Rules Show which will be shown every Wednesday at 8pm on BT Sport. Presented by Australian sports presenter Ollie Geale, the weekly magazine show will look ahead to the upcoming round of AFL action, with all […]