SingTel wins exclusive rights to broadcast UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup
By Vimita Mohandas, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 20 March 2008 1803 hrs

 

 

SINGAPORE: Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) has won exclusive rights to broadcast UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup 2009-2012 on its mobile, internet and mio TV platforms.

SingTel also plans to stream UEFA Champions League games both ‘live’ and on-demand on mio TV, and the Internet through the IDEAS portal www.ideas.singtel.com. It will also offer clips on its mobile service.

Local football fans usually have to stay up till the wee hours of the morning just to catch the games, due to the time difference as the UEFA games are played in Europe.

But this won’t be the case now with mio TV’s on-demand feature.

Mr Allen Lew, SingTel’s CEO Singapore, said: “The flexible mio platform has the unique capability of offering video-on-demand and SingTel’s extensive mobile and broadband customer base allows us to package this content in an innovative way that will certainly excite the public in Singapore.”

Mr Lew continued: “Based on our research, sport is a key genre that drives pay TV take-up, and European soccer is a significant driver for people who subscribe to sport content. mio TV is an integral part of the services that SingTel provides, and what drives pay TV take-up is the quality of content.”

The UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup are premier European club competitions and this content is popular among locals and expatriates as they feature top soccer clubs from the UK, Italy and other major European nations.

Meanwhile, UEFA has said that they are excited at the prospect of working with their new partner, SingTel.

“The commitment they have made to acquire the media rights is evidence of the tremendous popularity of the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup in Singapore,” UEFA said.

Meanwhile, StarHub said it did not bid for the broadcast rights for the Champions league for the 2009 season onwards.

But fans can still catch the action on two cable channels, ESPN and STAR Sports, which will continue to broadcast the Champions League till May 2009.

And there'll still be other world class football matches on these two channels.

These include the FA Cup, England international home matches, and the Asian Football Confederation Package.

That package includes AFF Championships, Asian World Cup Qualifiers and Asian Champions League. - CNA/vm

 

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song bo?

well, whether the red or green or watever color ..still belongs to...u know who?  cannot win lar...our $$ jus goes into which pocket in the same pants only

Originally posted by Cowbaycowboo:

well, whether the red or green or watever color ..still belongs to...u know who?  cannot win lar...our $$ jus goes into which pocket in the same pants only

he got share in both meh?

but the point here is u'll have to subscribe to shittel and starfug to watch both BPL and Champions League... wtf

Originally posted by BeRt^.^:

but the point here is u'll have to subscribe to shittel and starfug to watch both BPL and Champions League... wtf

eh....last time my class got one girl the name shittal leh.....she really stinks like shit one......but no offence to her.....

If you know just a little closely, you will realise starhub and singtel is owned by the same company. 

if the purpose is for healthy competition, then that's good. If it is just another "petrol company cartel" than it's a waste of time.

 

The Green Pipe have already the sole control to the BPL.

So, must give some shares to the Cat TV for market survival.

If that is the case, then the green pipe would expect another round of cancellation after the BPL season.

 

its a conspiracy by the gahmen.

Originally posted by stellazio:

its a conspiracy by the gahmen.

Unfortunately its been uncovered by us now. We are all gonna vote for oppositions next election!

wah sian ... wan watch champions league mus pay more sia  .... wtf sia .. si bei sian .... i hope channel 5 gets to broadcast the matches too .... at least it helps a little

watch indonesian channel...i think should have

 

Originally posted by Lin Yu:

if the purpose is for healthy competition, then that's good. If it is just another "petrol company cartel" than it's a waste of time.

 

If it's a healthy competition , starfug should curtail its subscription fee of 26 bucks to attract more people .

but at least starhub dint lose their rights to broadcst the F1 .. other wise i'll cancel my subcription right away

that sucks, both are being owned by the same company.

so its a win win situation for both!

I am pretty sure someone will write to ST and expose temasek holdings' strategy. But will it get printed? Since Singapore Press Holdings is under temasek holdings as well.

Singaporeans got owned left and right, up and down, front and back. Even the ISP i am using right now belongs to temasek holdings.

money make the world go round! boycott FA!

can you believe that strahub did not even bid for the uefa slots?

its obviously given to singtel to win the rights without having to spend much money in a bidding war with starhub.

definitely a conspiracy.

 

1. It doesn't matter cos we can switch to Indo channel to watch or TV3 as both usually show CL matches F.O.C !!

2. In case both channels kena "snow" by SG Govt. There's always TUV, Soapcast, FF-stream, livefooty.....so on*

(*= bluff names one, cos dun 1 Shitnet/starfag to block e site.)

 

ANyway, why tis in CC forum?  Mods sleeping on job again ah?

Let me help them to link to Sports instead.

Originally posted by stellazio:

can you believe that strahub did not even bid for the uefa slots?

its obviously given to singtel to win the rights without having to spend much money in a bidding war with starhub.

definitely a conspiracy.

poor country like vietnam, the pple get to watch football channel for free.

whereas country like sinkapore we pay money to watch n the fee is still rising. what give?

we should not subscribe to singtel, continue with starhub which should lower their prices, if they don't then more won't subscribe, in which their plans will backfire.

at the very least, must make singtel lose money by having few subscribers.

we can always go coffeeshop to watch, let them subscribe, we home viewers need not to.

Originally posted by stellazio:

we should not subscribe to singtel, continue with starhub which should lower their prices, if they don't then more won't subscribe, in which their plans will backfire.

at the very least, must make singtel lose money by having few subscribers.

we can always go coffeeshop to watch, let them subscribe, we home viewers need not to.

dun think coffeeshop will subscribe both starfug n stinktel. they may as well give up showing uefa matches.

yeah think coffeeshop will give up UCL matches cause its more or less telecast during the midnight, and not the prime time when people are still awake..

Not many ppl watching it at 3am for all the matches, so if it cost like $15 a mth I think can say bye bye to UCL liao. Recent match fix really turn some fan off.

 

On the other hand I dun think starfug can reduce fee with lesser match.

 

Soccer fan can watch repeat telecast but not the gambler.