The National Hockey League (NHL) Network now has an agreement with IP-PRIME to bring around-the-clock game coverage to more viewers in the U.S. This enhances IP-PRIME’s ability to help operators deliver highly-demanded programming.
NHL Network offers viewers a 24-hour all-access pass to complete hockey coverage both on and off the ice, including live NHL games.
IP-PRIME, which offers a turnkey IPTV
solution for telecom carriers and cable operators, is a division of SES (
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Alert)-AMERICOM. Providers can use the IPTV solution to offer subscribers the content that they demand, including 32 channels of high-definition programming as well as music.
“Signing this agreement with NHL Network just after an exciting Stanley Cup Final is great news for all fans of hockey,” said Bill Squadron, President of IP-PRIME. “Our superb HD video quality is ideally suited to the NHL Network programming; the shape of the rink, the movement of the players and their sticks, and the speed of the puck are all brilliantly captured in HD.”
“NHL Network provides fans across North America the hockey programming they want in HD 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It is an important platform in the activation of our fans year-round by providing all-inclusive coverage that they cannot get anywhere else,” said Jody Shapiro, NHL Senior Vice President of Distribution for NHL Network. “We are pleased to be working with IP-PRIME to expand the distribution of NHL Network.”
The 24 hrs hockey suite is a complete coverage from NHL that includes news, classic match-ups, documentaries, analysis, highlights and more. NHL Network will provide comprehensive coverage of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft on June 20-21 from Scotiabank Place in Ottawa and will broadcast 75 live games all in HD for the 2008-09 regular seasons.
The NHL Network’s programs comprise of AHL, ECHL, and IIHF World Junior hockey, post-game press conferences, special event programming on-location from NHL events such as Winter Classic, All-Star, Entry Draft and Stanley Cup Final and NHL on the Fly. They are broadcasted right through the hockey season.
The new agreement between NHL and IP-PRIME will make sure that NHL Network will be available to all IP-PRIME operators all over United States. Each operator then will have to sign an individual carriage deal with NHL Network in order to offer the Network to its subscribers.
Nathesh is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Nathesh’s articles, please visit his columnist page.
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