What They Say
Next TV reports that the Tennis Channel’s T2 content will be available on the Samsung TV Plus advertising supported service in the US. T2 is youth-targeted and will include matches from the men’s and women’s professional tennis tours as well as select matches from the French Open and International Tennis Federation events.
The Tennis Channel is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which operates Fred advertising-supported TV (FAST) channels on Samsung TV Plus in Austria, Germany, India, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK.
What We Think
Sport over streaming has been getting better. I guess if its free, some reduction in frame rate or quality is OK, but I admit that I would rather pay for live sport than see degraded quality. In its announcement yesterday, Apple said that it would be adding Friday Night Baseball with two matches to its Apple TV+ service. Apple cares about quality, so the firm is clearly confident that it can offer good enough streamed quality. (BR)
