Five channels from the leading sports streamer and broadcaster DAZN will appear on Pluto TV (the free streaming TV service) across multiple territories after the companies signed a distribution deal. Channels dedicated to men’s football, darts and fight events will appear in Germany and Austria, and a channel devoted to women’s football and another covering multiple women’s sports (including golf, as well as football) will be distributed in Europe and Latin America.
The men’s football channel, ‘DAZN X PLUTO TV INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL’, includes live games from top Spanish, Italian and French leagues, plus FA Cup and Coppa Italia games, and exclusively produced weekly highlight shows from LaLiga, Serie A, Ligue 1 and selected cup competitions, also on demand. The Football channel will include a weekly Pluto TV exclusive highlight show called ‘Die DAZN x Pluto TV Fußballshow’.
“With these launches, Pluto TV becomes the only free streaming TV service with 100% dedicated DAZN Football, Darts and Fights channels in these market,” Pluto TV says in a statement. Olivier Jollet, EVP and International General Manager at Pluto TV, says the deal makes sport, including niche disciplines like darts, more accessible to a wider audience. Pete Parmenter, EVP Business Development at DAZN, says the partnership creates even more visibility for DAZN’s “best in class” coverage.
Parmenter adds: “This is yet another exciting partnership that underpins DAZN’s strategy of delivering an ever-increasing range of top-quality sports content to fans on a global basis. This deal increases accessibility and reach for our rights holders’ content, such as the UEFA Women’s Champions League.”
Jollet continued: “This partnership showcases our commitment to providing exceptional content to our audience…We are happy to offer Pluto TV viewers unparalleled access to some of the most prestigious women’s competitions.”
DAZN and Pluto TV have a longstanding relationship, which started in 2019 when they partnered to deliver the DAZN Fight Zone, a three-hour weekly programming block, to Pluto TV viewers in the U.S.
The full channel list covered by the new deal is:
- DAZN X PLUTO TV INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL (Live on Pluto TV in Germany and Austria)
- DAZN DARTS X PLUTO TV (Live on Pluto TV in Germany and Austria)
- DAZN FIGHTS X PLUTO TV (Available from August 28 in Germany and Austria)
- DAZN HELDINNEN X PLUTO TV (Available from August 28 in Germany and Austria)
- DAZN WOMEN FOOTBALL (Live on Pluto TV in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, France and Latin America).
