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Exclusive live sporting content now available on Smart TV
London, UK - 25th June 2013 - Samsung today announced the launch of Eurosport onto its Smart TV platform making it the first regional sports broadcasting service available on Samsung Smart TV.
The new sporting App will give people access to over 5,000 hours of live sport every year including ground breaking coverage from the Tour de France, World Championship Athletics, tennis Grand Slams, The Australian, French and US Open, Africa Cup of Nations and the full 2013/14 wintersports season.
From tennis to football, the Eurosport TV Smart TV App gives viewers an opportunity to customise their viewing experience to reflect their interests. For instance, throughout the tennis Grand Slams, viewers will be able to choose from a number of courts to watch during the live coverage.
With more vibrant and richer colours, higher contrasts and a brighter picture quality than ever before, Samsung's 2013 Smart TV series provide the ultimate sporting viewing platform for customers. Complemented with built in sub woofers creating a stadium like experience, Samsung's 2013 Smart TV range ensures people get the very best live sporting action from the comfort of their home.
Guy Kinnell, Head of TV and AV at Samsung Electronics UK & Ireland, commented: "According to our recently released ‘Samsung Futures: The Future of Smart TV' report one in 10 people in the UK1 are more likely to watch sport on TV than go to an event. With rising ticket prices across sport, having the Eurosport TV App on our platform ensures live sport is part of the viewing experience that we can offer on Smart TVs and we're thrilled to be providing our customers with the best range of sporting content via our award winning Smart TV range2.
"Eurosport has been delivering innovative programming for many years; ensuring sports fans get the best live sports experience possible. We are very proud to be able to bring our services onto Samsung Smart TV and look forward to introducing viewers to a more dynamic and engaging viewing experience," said Arnaud Maillard, Eurosport's Director of Internet & New Media.
Eurosport Player is available to download from Samsung TV Apps Store in 40 European countries and 13 languages: German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Dutch, English, Danish, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Czech, Finnish and Norwegian. The app will join an ever-growing collection of services available on Samsung Smart TVs such as, Netflix, LOVEFiLM, Rightmove, Spotify, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. ‘Samsung Apps' is the first and biggest App store available for TVs, with over 20 million Apps already downloaded worldwide, proof that consumers are rapidly embracing the Smart TV format.
1 Samsung TV Futures: The Future of Smart TV report by The Future Laboratory - May 2013
2 Most awarded TV branded in 2013 (January - May)
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About Eurosport Group
The Eurosport Group is Europe's leading sports entertainment group. Eurosport, the n°1 pan-European TV channel, broadcasts in 20 languages and reaches 131 million homes across 54 countries. Eurosport HD is the high definition simulcast of Eurosport. Eurosport 2 broadcasts to 63 million households in 18 languages across 51 countries. Eurosport 2 HD was launched in August 2009. Eurosport Asia-Pacific reaches 17 countries in the region and launched an HD channel in September 2011. Eurosportnews is the sports news channel transmitted worldwide. Eurosport.com, Europe's n°1 online sports destination, has up to 23 million unique users per month (comScore) across an international network of sports websites in 11 languages, including Yahoo! co-branded sites in Germany, Spain, Italy and the UK. The Eurosport.com free mobile applications are available in 10 languages. Eurosport Player, Eurosport's online TV service, provides LIVE and on-demand sports to fans' PCs in 53 countries and the Player application is available for mobile, tablet and connected TV in up to 40 countries. Eurosport Events is the group's expert division in the management and promotion of international sporting events.
