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KUALA LUMPUR : Astro Malaysia Holdings Bhd announced that it has won the rights to broadcast English Premier League (EPL) matches for the next three seasons from 2016/17 to 2018/19.
The agreement will see all 380 EPL matches every season being made available live on Astro TV in full high definition and on all mobile devices via Astro on the Go (AOTG).In a statement on Thursday, the satellite TV broadcaster’s group chief operating officer Henry Tan said the group has strengthened its position as the home of sports and the unrivalled choice of sports fans by winning the EPL rights which covers all matches over the next three seasons.
“We are pleased to continue our association with the Premier League to provide unmatched coverage of the biggest and most exciting football league in the world for the next thee years. Sport fans can also look forward to a major sporting year with a comprehensive line-up of live sports events such as UEFA Euro 2016, Rio 2016 Olympics and Thomas & Uber Cup 2016,” he said.
In a statement, the Premier League’s executive chairman Richard Scudamore said it looks forward to continue working with Astro to make the best EPL content available to fans across the country.
“We are very pleased that Astro has again chosen to invest in our broadcasting rights in Malaysia. The popularity of the Premier League continues to grow in Malaysia and Astro’s high quality production of our competition is a key reason for that,” he said.
http://www.thestar.com.my/business/busines...-three-seasons/I bolded the part from the press release when Astro won the rights for the EPL back in Februay. It states that all games will be LIVE IN HD ON TV as well as AOTG. And Astro used this reason to hike up the price for the sports package.
Now let me just share this with u. This is week 3 of the EPL and this is the stats for the number of LIVE GAMES IN HD ON TV that Astro has shown.
Week 1: 7 out of 10 games Live
Week 2: 8 out of 10 games Live
Week 3: 6 out of 10 games Live
Now obviously, that is still a big number of games shown Live but if you look back at Astro's statement when they won the rights, to the price hike that apparrently was because of the expensive sports content, then customers are being treated poorly. You're paying more than before, promised more matches than before yet it's a very lousy service given by Astro.
You have other countries like Singapore, the US and Australia who open up temporary channels on matchdays to show all the matches being played at the same time and all 380 matches in the season are Live. Yet here we are in Malaysia, paying more than before but still getting matches on delay. Don't get me started on the leagues that Astro have dropped to cater to their EPL coverage and their pure rojak takda telor beIN sports channel.
And we still don't even have FOX Sports 2 and 3 in HD!!!!
This post has been edited by CTU: Aug 27 2016, 11:53 PM