A new partnership between sports provider, and holder of several key Scottish football rights, Premier Sports and STV’s streaming service STV Player will unite live sports, TV drama, soaps and news in one ad-free, digital home.
The two have joined forces to offer viewers an exclusive and competitively priced package of top-flight sports plus ad-free high-quality drama box sets, true crime documentaries and entertainment juggernauts via STV’s streaming platform, STV Player.
For the price of a standalone Premier Sports package, viewers who sign up via STV Player will now also become STV Player+ subscribers. They’ll be able to access three 24/7 live Premier Sports channels (Premier Sports 1, Premier Sports 2 and LALIGATV), plus thousands of hours of Scottish, UK and international TV shows ad-free and downloadable.
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Premier Sports is the holder of a number of major Scottish football rights including to the Scottish Premiership (which it shares with Sky Sports), Scottish Cup (which it shares with the BBC) and Premier Sports Cup, as well as the Investec Champions Cup, EPCR Challenge Cup, United Rugby Championship and TOP14.
The broadcaster also has a growing portfolio of sports across the UK and internationally, such as LALIGA, Coppa Italia, German Cup, National Hockey League (NHL), Swedish Hockey League (SHL) and NASCAR. All of this will be available to subscribers via STV Player, including Scottish Premiership, Scottish Cup and United Rugby Championship games on air this February and March.
STV Player, meanwhile, is home to high-end drama box sets, such as Those Who Kill, Betrayal, Joan, Playing Nice, Trigger Point, Vera and The Fix; quiz shows The Chase, The 1% Club and Deal or No Deal; top network soaps Coronation Street and Emmerdale; fan favourites Brookside and Irish drama Red Rock; and classic shows like Taggart and Rebus. New Zealand’s erstwhile daytime favourite, hospital drama Shortland Street, is also set to make a return to UK screens for the first time in over a decade next week thanks to STV Player.
On its own, the service is free with adverts or ad-free on subscription.
Viewers can sign up to the combined service online now via STV Player.
