Eleven Sports Extends TVI And UEFA Champions League Agreement
July 4, 2019
Eleven Sports has extended TVI and UEFA Champions League partnership for another two years in Portugal.
As part of the extension, TVI will continue to show one game per match-week featuring a Portuguese team for the next two seasons. TVI will also show the final free-to-air in accordance with Portuguese regulations.
Eleven Sports will continue to show every game – from the qualifiers to the final – on its own platforms. Last season Eleven showed 125 UEFA Champions League matches which combined with supplementary programming constituted more than 300 broadcasting hours.
Jorge P Sousa, Managing Director, Eleven Sports in Portugal, said: “TVI has been a very important strategic partner for Eleven Sports in our first year of activity in Portugal. We are very pleased with the growth we have achieved together, and this was naturally a key factor in the discussions and negotiations that we held with the various national channels that showed interest in acquiring the Free-to-Air rights of the UEFA Champions League.
“TVI presented the best proposal and we are delighted that we will continue to innovate together, giving excellent airtime to the Eleven brand on FTA and enabling Portuguese fans to watch some of the best football in the world on Eleven Sports and TVI/TVI24.”
Bruno Santos, TVI’s General Director of Programs and Antenna, said: “TVI is always looking for the best content and there is no bigger sports event than the UEFA Champions League. In last year’s edition, all the games broadcasted by TVI were the most watched programs of the year. We are therefore very pleased to renew this partnership with Eleven Sports for another two seasons.”
