Fanatiz announced the addition of beIN Sports Xtra, the free 24/7 English-language network offering live sports, news, analysis and highlights that brings passionate and casual fans closer to the game, and Trace Sports-Stars Channel, the first global entertainment channel dedicated to the lives of sports celebrities.
beIN Sports Xtra delivers access to beIN Sports’ leading sports properties, including select matches from popular soccer leagues LaLiga, Ligue 1 and SüperLig, and access to Paris Saint-Germain Féminine home matches, the French women’s national team as well as Basketball Champions League and combat sports including Karate Combat. The channel will strengthen Fanatiz’s programming line-up by offering fans in the U.S. access to beIN Sports’ world-class content.Trace Sport-Stars is the one and only TV channel focused on sports celebrities and their lives. Through factual, reality, lifestyle, magazine, gossip and countdown TV shows, Trace Sport-Stars gives an in-depth access to everyone’s favorite champions’ lives: their passions, their commitments, their secrets.
beIN Sports Xtra is currently available to Fanatiz users through all Fanatiz plans: Basic, Club Italia, Brasileirao and Freemium, and Trace Sports-Stars Channel in the Basic Fanatiz plan. Freemium offers users FREE access to a wide variety of soccer channels, including highlights, interviews, documentaries and more available to our fans in the United States and Puerto Rico. “We strive to provide the best in sports content to our subscribers and fans, and the addition of these channels satisfy the needs of our ever-growing audience,” said Matias Rivera, Fanatiz CEO & Founder. “At Fanatiz, we like to respond to the high demand our fans crave of world-class content – and by adding beIN Sports Xtra and Trace Sport-Stars, we continue to give our fans more of what they desire.”
“beIN Sports’ new partnership with Fanatiz will help us expand our reach to tens of thousands of more homes nationwide,” said Antonio Briceño, beIN Sports Managing Director for North America. “Our impressive portfolio of high-quality sports content has generated a loyal fanbase and we look forward to welcoming more sports fans into the mix as we continue to expand access to our world-class programming by offering a sampling of our content for free on beIN Sports Xtra.”
“We are delighted to partner with an innovative service such as Fanatiz to offer one of Trace Group’s most popular and unique channel, Trace Sport Stars, to Fanatiz’s subscribers in the United States and Puerto Rico,” said Nathan Becker, Trace Distribution Director. “We’re always excited to expand the reach of our channels to fans in new markets and territories.”
Fanatiz is committed to bringing sports fans the most exciting games from LaLiga, top-flight Argentinian and Brazilian soccer leagues, access to premier South American tournaments such as Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana, as well as more soccer leagues from Latin America and Europe.