BOSTON — NESN, New England’s premier sports activities community, introduced Thursday the launch of NESN NATION, its first free, ad-supported nationwide streaming tv (FAST) channel. NESN Nation will ship extra unique programming that gives followers nationwide much more entry to the sports activities, groups and gamers they love.
NESN NATION will characteristic greater than 30 hours of weekly stay and unique programming — that includes NESN’s protection of flagship groups just like the Purple Sox, Bruins and Liverpool FC to girls’s sports activities, New England Division III groups, and the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). Content material will embrace stay video games, stay gameday content material, stay press conferences, interviews, recreation and sports activities betting evaluation, options, documentaries and video podcasts, in addition to content material from NESN’s award-winning library.
“Given sports activities followers unwavering demand for his or her favourite groups, we’re excited to develop our portfolio with our first FAST nationwide channel that gives easy accessibility to each our globally acknowledged manufacturers in addition to our award-winning content material,” NESN President and CEO, David Wisnia stated. “NESN NATION will ship a spread of latest, stay and unique programming and additional our mission to offer a mess of the way for followers to have interaction with our must-see content material.”
NESN NATION is offered on Prime Video, The Roku Channel, Twitch and Plex, and is arriving quickly on Samsung TV Plus within the coming weeks. NESN partnered with AMC Networks, a pacesetter within the FAST house, to construct out the distribution and syndication of NESN NATION and the businesses will proceed to work collectively on the optimization of content material technique and can be saying additional distribution partnerships sooner or later.
Among the unique and third-party programming that may start within the coming weeks contains:
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- 4 (4) stay Purple Sox Spring Coaching Video games on Feb. 23, March 2, March 9, and March 23 – obtainable on NESN NATION on Prime Video, The Roku Channel, and different choose taking part platforms. The March 9 and March 23 video games can be obtainable on Samsung TV Plus.
- Dwell streams of Boston Bruins Morning Skates and Pregame Skates, together with upcoming Morning Skate dates on March 11, and March 17 and Pregame Skates on Feb. 25, March 4, and March 15.
- “Unobstructed Views,” the alternate, commentary-driven recreation protection present (that includes Tuuka Rask, Patrice Bergeron and Andrew Raycroft).
- Dwell baseball evaluation with “310 to Left” podcast exhibits via February 20.
- Six Athletes Limitless girls’s basketball video games.
- Postgame press conferences from skilled groups.
- Liverpool FC protection, together with a weekly three-hour block that includes match highlights, recaps, and evaluation plus team-produced behind the scenes content material.
- “Hockey Chowdah:” distinctive half-hour mashup exhibits that includes Bruins (Charlie Coyle, Brad Marchand and Hampus Lindholm), with different skilled athlete options to return.
- Eight totally different video-enabled podcasts together with “Boston Has Entered the Chat” and “Morning Bru.”
- Unique titles corresponding to “Marchand at 1,000” and “A Century of Boston Bruins Hockey.”
- Dwell recreation telecasts from choose faculties.
- Choose programming from The BetMGM Community together with “Guess Sweats” (Mondays and Fridays from 9 a.m.-12 p.m.).
- “This Week in Hockey East,” a league-produced program previewing an important video games of the weekend.
The launch of NESN NATION furthers the community’s mission to offer followers with an unmatched expertise via content material, entry and modern options. NESN was the primary Regional Sports activities Community (RSN) to broadcast in HD and UHD, first to stay stream MLB and NHL video games in 4K/HDR, and first to launch a direct-to-consumer streaming service with NESN 360.
