UFC On-Demand Network To Launch
by Kelvin Hunt on Mar 23, 2009 3:07 PM EDT
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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TVN Entertainment Corp., the world’s largest television On Demand company, today announced that it has reached an industry-wide partnership agreement with Zuffa, LLC, owner of the Ultimate Fighting Championship® brand, to launch the first ever UFC® On Demand™ network. Under this agreement, TVN is handling sales, licensing and distribution partnerships and will also support the channel through its award-winning ADONISS encoding, transport and asset management services.
The UFC On Demand network is currently available to avid UFC fans in over 6 million homes through TVN’s distribution partners including Verizon, Rogers, Shaw Cable, Insight, WOW, Bresnan, Atlantic Broadband, and Armstrong. Additional affiliate deals are in the works that will bring UFC On Demand to over 15 million homes in North America over the coming months.
“As UFC continues to dominate as the number one promoter of the fastest growing sport in the world, we constantly look for new ways to deliver the UFC experience to all of our loyal fans,” said Dana White, UFC President. “By partnering with industry leader TVN to form our new UFC on Demand service, our fans will now be able to experience UFC whenever they want, learning more about MMA and its fighters, and seeing some of the greatest fights in the sport.”
The new channel will consist of a triple-tiered offering of three distinct folders; UFC Free Zone, UFC Fight Zone and UFC Event Zone and will be available in multiple versions including SD, HD and Spanish.
UFC Free Zone offers free informative and entertaining short features on mixed martial arts rules, fighting disciplines, styles and techniques. The highly popular Countdown UFC shows, UFC event previews and full length fighter profiles are also available via UFC Free Zone.
UFC Fight Zone offers single UFC library fights in their entirety, at $2.99 per fight with a 24-hour viewing period. UFC Fight Zone features fighters who will be competing in an upcoming UFC pay-per-view event, offering fans the opportunity to see these champions and challengers in some of their most legendary fights and most recent matchups.
UFC Event Zone offers full UFC events and specials, starting at $4.99 per title for a 24-hour viewing period. Offerings include recent UFC pay-per-view events that feature fighters who will be competing in an upcoming UFC event, as well as the original and rarely seen “UFC Classics” from 1993-1998, along with UFC’s hottest selling full-length DVDs, UFC compilation specials and replays of current pay-per-view events.
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Nice! You know Xbox Live has been offering fights for a long time now too. I’ve ordered several that I wanna collect and keep on my HDD.
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/videos/media/a2d65aa8-fcb1-4e78-8976-e7559db38ab1/
Mike Goldberg: "You know Joe, When Matt and his brother Mark Hughes were growing up, they would pound each other behind the barn."
I already store all the UFC PPVs (along with PRIDE, WEC etc.) on an external drive.
But the UFC Free Zone sounds somewhat interesting.
Bloody hell.
I recently switched from Dish to DirecTV and I had a bunch of PPVs on that DishDVR. How could I transfer those over?
Mike Goldberg: "You know Joe, When Matt and his brother Mark Hughes were growing up, they would pound each other behind the barn."
by xFenixKnightx on Mar 23, 2009 3:41 PM EDT up reply actions
You could burn them to DVD if you had a dvd burner….other than that I dunno. I have like 3 PPV’s on my DVR jawn…I just delete them after a while though because I don’t have any reason to watch them again…or anyone new to show them too :(
I kept UFC 84 though…that event was sick.
http://www.mmaforreal.com
I do have one, I’ll check it out. Dish just sent me the shipping boxes for it so I wanna save the PPV’s before I send them the DVR reciever.
Mike Goldberg: "You know Joe, When Matt and his brother Mark Hughes were growing up, they would pound each other behind the barn."
by xFenixKnightx on Mar 23, 2009 3:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Yep
Just keep your old receiver hooked up…burn the events to a dvd with your burner…then you’ll have them…
http://www.mmaforreal.com
Sweet
Mike Goldberg: "You know Joe, When Matt and his brother Mark Hughes were growing up, they would pound each other behind the barn."
by xFenixKnightx on Mar 23, 2009 4:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Its better than real money and,
It’s a motivational tool! :)
X5
Mike Goldberg: "You know Joe, When Matt and his brother Mark Hughes were growing up, they would pound each other behind the barn."
by xFenixKnightx on Mar 23, 2009 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions
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