Tennis Channel’s Second Network T2 Launches on the Roku Channel

Free, Dwell Tennis with World’s Prime Tournaments and Gamers
Now Obtainable on The Roku Channel all 12 months Spherical

LOS ANGELES and SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 5, 2023 – Tennis Channel and Roku have partnered to hold T2 – the 24-hour sports activities community’s second channel – to The Roku Channel in the USA, efficient instantly. T2 will unlock free, year-round entry to reside, day by day protection of the game’s greatest gamers and signature occasions for the estimated U.S. households with 100-million folks* reached by The Roku Channel (This fall 2022). The Roku Channel is the No. 1 free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) service by attain on the Roku platform (Q3 2023).

Along with accessing T2 by means of The Roku Channel, viewers may simply entry T2 by means of the Sports activities Expertise on Roku’s Residence Display screen. Roku’s Sports activities Expertise makes discovering and accessing reside, upcoming, and on-demand sports activities content material simpler than ever, driving engagement and consciousness for Roku’s content material companions and creating a personalised viewing expertise for audiences.

With authentic programming and occasions that don’t seem on Tennis Channel, T2 debuted in 2022 and since has supplied followers with extra annual free, reside tennis than ever in U.S. tv historical past. From January by means of November, skilled tennis options a number of tournaments each week more often than not, typically as many as six without delay. These include males’s and ladies’s competitors; singles, doubles and combined matches; all day lengthy from numerous time zones world wide. Tennis Channel has the U.S. media rights to nearly all of it, which means T2 can stand alone amongst FAST sports activities channels in its capacity to convey reside, top-tier protection of one of many nation’s traditionally fashionable sports activities – daily.

The Roku Channel is out there on Roku units or TVs, on-line at TheRokuChannel.Roku.com, Amazon Fireplace TVs, Samsung TVs, Google TV, and different Android TV OS units. Viewers can discover T2 by means of The Roku Channel’s Dwell TV Information. The channel is among the many high 5 on Roku by lively account attain and streaming hour engagement (Q1 2023) and options greater than 80,000 free motion pictures and applications, and greater than 350 free reside linear tv channels in the USA. The Roku Channel licenses and distributes content material from greater than 250 companions.

“This partnership with Roku represents a watershed second within the development and growth of T2,” stated Lee Schlazer, senior vice chairman, distribution, Sinclair and Tennis Channel. “Having the world’s greatest tennis out there without spending a dime daily on The Roku Channel won’t solely thrill present aficionados who haven’t had this earlier than, but additionally undoubtedly result in tens of millions of recent followers who uncover this wonderful sport and see what the thrill’s all about. We couldn’t be extra happy to work with Roku on this.”

“We’re thrilled to present tens of millions of streamers 24/7 entry to T2’s strong lineup of reside tennis occasions and authentic programming,” stated Joe Franzetta, head of sports activities, Roku Media. “The launch of T2 will give our audiences a courtside seat on the high tournaments with the perfect gamers within the recreation without spending a dime. We look ahead to harnessing the attain and scale of The Roku Channel, in addition to the built-in viewing experiences solely discovered on the Roku platform, to assist extra audiences uncover the joys of T2’s standout sports activities programming.”

T2’s annual reside and encore calendar provides many of the tournaments that Tennis Channel carries all year long, albeit with totally different matches and gamers from every. This enables viewers with entry to each channels to decide on between simultaneous competitions from the game’s high occasions, like Roland Garros (generally generally known as the French Open and one of many sport’s 4 annual majors), the BNP Paribas Open, Miami Open, Monte-Carlo Masters, Italian Open, Canadian Open, Davis Cup and the Billie Jean King Cup.

Along with Roku, T2 is out there on 4 providers: Amazon Freevee, Fubo, Samsung TV Plus and YouTube TV.

*By hours streamed (Speculation Group: December 2022)