COVERAGE and inside stories happening around the PBA, fresh updates from the NBA rumor mill from Adrian Wojnarowski, US NCAA basketball games leading to March Madness, Gilas Pilipinas games in the FIBA World Cup and bouts of new Filipino boxing sensation Jerwin Ancajas.
They’re all here, ready to be shown in TV5 and ESPN’s latest collaboration.
It’s now official: TV5 and ESPN have agreed with the multimedia licensing and co-branding of the local ESPN5, as well as the subscription of sports streaming service ESPN player that can be accessed by sports fans beginning today.
This means that Filipino sports fans all over the world can now get up to date developments of what’s going on in Philippine sports as well as the usual streaming of major international sports events being shown on ESPN.
The latest step in the agreement between TV5 and ESPN means collaboration of both TV and digital platform, which will now be known as ESPN5.
The new co-branded webtie will deliver digital access to sports fans in the Philippines, directing multi-sports streaming service to consumers.
Sports fans will now have an exciting new digital gateway for all the latest news, scores, video and more from the Philippines sporting scene and around the world—anytime and anywhere.
“We have made some changes to the network and we launched it in October, our partnership with ESPN. Part of that partnership is going 360-degree about our coverage of sports and content. We’re announcing the ESPN5.com, the local website replacing Sports5,” said TV5 CEO and President Chot Reyes.
Driven by their love for sports, ESPN decided to tie up with the Philippines thru TV5, which has become a dedicated sports channel and Joyee Biswas, Head of Southeast Asia ESPN, wants to build that strong connection to the Filipinos.
“ESPN has a strong connection with fans around the world because we are fans ourselves, driven by a similar obsession for sports,” said Biswas. “The launch of our new co-branded digital multi-sports products for Philippine sports fans showcases our digital leadership and offers sports fans outstanding news, features and video experiences around top sports of interest to Filipino sports fans. These new products perfectly complement TV5’s recently launched ESPN5 channel and reinforce our signature ‘Game around the Game’ analysis across platforms.”
Although ESPN5 will not be able to show NBA games as coverage of the NBA games are licensed in another channel in the Philippines, the new digital platform will be able bring up to date NBA developments from the widely acknowledged NBA writer, Adrian Wojnarowski.