OneSoccer

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OneSoccer
OneSoccer logo.svg
Country
  • Canada (TV and streaming)
  • Global (streaming-only)
Broadcast areaNational
Programming
Language(s)English, French
Ownership
OwnerTimeless Inc.
History
LaunchedApril 26, 2019;5 years ago (2019-04-26)
Links
Website onesoccer.ca
Availability
Streaming media
OneSoccer watch.onesoccer.ca
FuboTV Canada www.fubo.tv/welcome

OneSoccer is a Canadian category-B exempt English language television channel and English and French language subscription over-the-top video streaming service. The service broadcasts programming related to soccer including live and pre-taped games, recap shows, and more. It is the main rightsholder of the Canadian Soccer Association, including holding the rights to the Canadian Premier League, Canadian Championship, and national team matches. It is rightsholder for various CONCACAF competitions, including the CONCACAF Gold Cup and CONCACAF Champions Cup. In 2024, ownership of OneSoccer was transferred from Mediapro Canada to Timeless Inc.

Contents

History

On March 28, 2019, the Canadian Premier League and the Canadian Soccer Association announced the creation of Canadian Soccer Business (CSB), an organization "representing commercial assets and inventory for marquee soccer properties in Canada", including "all corporate partnerships and broadcast rights related to Canada Soccer's core assets including its national teams, along with all rights associated with the CPL". [1] On February 21, 2019, it announced a 10-year agreement with Mediapro, under which it holds all media rights associated with Canada Soccer, including rights to the Canadian Premier League, the Canadian Championship, and rights to national team matches. [2] In April, Mediapro announced that its rights would be housed in a new subscription service known as OneSoccer, [3] [4] which launched as an online-only live and on-demand subscription service through its website on April 26, 2019, with its first live match airing the next day. [5]

In August 2019, OneSoccer acquired rights to the 2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League season. [6] In January 2020, OneSoccer acquired exclusive Canadian rights to various CONCACAF championships through 2023, including the CONCACAF Gold Cup. [7] [8]

In September 2021, Mediapro Canada announced OneSoccer's first third-party launch of the service via FuboTV's streaming package in Canada. [9] Later that month, Mediapro Canada announced that it had reached its first deal for carriage of OneSoccer as a linear television channel, with Telus TV. [10]

On August 5, 2022, OneSoccer filed a complaint with the CRTC against Rogers Communications, alleging that Rogers refused to carry OneSoccer in order to protect its own Sportsnet service from competition. [11] On March 23, 2023, The CRTC found that Rogers had indeed given undue preference to Sportsnet, as well as other independent broadcasters BeIN Sports and EuroWorld Sport. [12] [13]

In January 2024, five years into the ten-year agreement, CSB retracted the rights after a dispute, leaving the service's future in jeopardy. [14] The 2024 Canadian Premier League season was broadcast on OneSoccer without interruption and then in June, the legal dispute was settled out of court. As a result of the settlement, ownership of OneSoccer was transferred from Mediapro to Timeless Inc. (a CSB-affiliated company). [15] Mediapro will continue to produce the broadcasts until the end of the year. [16]

Broadcasting rights

Clubs

National teams

Staff

As of 2023, OneSoccer's commentary and analysis team features Andi Petrillo, Kristian Jack, Gareth Wheeler, Oliver Platt, Jordan Wilson, Adam Jenkins, Armen Bedakian, Josh Deming and Alexandre Gangué-Ruzic. [18] [19] [ third-party source needed ]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Mediapro strikes 10-year deal for new Canadian Premier League". SportBusiness Media. February 21, 2019. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Cleveland Cavaliers' Quicken Loans Arena to be renamed". SportsPro Media. April 9, 2019. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Canadian Premier League Available on OneSoccer – 365 Days a Year". CanPL.ca. April 17, 2019. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  5. ↑ Onesoccer: The ‘home of Canadian soccer’ launches worldwide this weekend Mediapro Canada press release, April 26, 2019
  6. ↑ "Concacaf and Mediapro agree Nations League rights deal in Canada". SportsPro Media. August 28, 2019. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  7. ↑ "Mediapro Canada nets exclusive rights to Concacaf Gold Cup". SportsPro Media. January 14, 2020. Retrieved February 22, 2020.
  8. ↑ "OneSoccer to air 2021 Concacaf Champions League starting next week". Canadian Premier League. March 29, 2021. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
  9. ↑ Davies, Catherine (September 2, 2021). "MEDIAPRO Canada partners with fuboTV to bring OneSoccer to Canadian subscribers". MediaPro Canada. Retrieved September 23, 2021.
  10. ↑ "OneSoccer has also landed in the traditional cable/satellite universe with Telus". Awful Announcing. September 22, 2021. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
  11. ↑ Houpt, Simon (August 5, 2022). "OneSoccer alleges Rogers acting anti-competitively by refusing to carry the streaming service on cable". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved March 27, 2024.
  12. ↑ Government of Canada, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) (March 23, 2023). "Complaint by Timeless Inc. against Rogers Communications Canada Inc. alleging undue preference regarding the carriage of the Canadian English-language exempt discretionary service OneSoccer". crtc.gc.ca. Retrieved March 27, 2024.
  13. ↑ Houpt, Simon (March 24, 2023). "Rogers gave undue preference to its own sports service over OneSoccer, CRTC rules". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved March 27, 2024.
  14. ↑ Nightingale, Tom. "Canadian Soccer Business and MediaPro abruptly end broadcasting agreement, pulling Canadian soccer off OneSoccer". Canadian Soccer Daily. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
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  16. ↑ Davidson, Neil (June 18, 2024). "Canadian Soccer Business, Mediapro settle lawsuit, agree to part ways at end of year". CBC. Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  17. 1 2 "OneSoccer Picks Up Rights For Manchester City TV, Eredivisie, And CSL". Twitter. October 17, 2022. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
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