Fanseat

Fanseat
Type of site
OTT video streaming platform
Available inEnglish
Spanish
French
Italian
Czech
Swedish
Norwegian
Area servedWorldwide
Key peopleTobias Osmund
(CEO, Spring Media)[1]
Jean-Maël Gineste
(Managing Director, Fanseat)[1]
ParentSpring Media
URLwww.fanseat.com
RegistrationRequired
Launched2015; 9 years ago (2015)
Current statusActive
Fanseat 1–4 (television)
CountryFinland
Broadcast areaNationwide
Programming
Language(s)Finnish
Ownership
OwnerElisa Oyj
History
LaunchedJune 12, 2015; 9 years ago (June 12, 2015)
(Fanseat 1 and 2)
ClosedFebruary 15, 2017; 7 years ago (February 15, 2017)
Replaced byElisa Viihde Sport 1–8

Fanseat is an Internet streaming service specializing in live sports broadcasts, established in 2015. Early on, it served as an online extension of Fanseat 1 and 2 (later Fanseat 1 to 4), basic tier television channels available to customers of Finnish telecommunications provider Elisa.[2] In 2017, the Fanseat channels were renamed and merged into a new 8-channel premium tier called Elisa Viihde Sport. The online version of Fanseat remained its own brand, and was refocused on foreign markets.[3]
In 2019, the platform was acquired by Spring Media, a Swedish sports marketing agency.[1] Fanseat's managing director is Jean-Maël Gineste, a former sales director at Eurosport.[1]

Fanseat mostly caters to small-market sports leagues, but has also held out-of-market rights to some internationally recognized properties. Most events are available through a monthly subscription, with select programming being offered on pay-per-view basis.[4]

Fanseat can be viewed via web browsers on PC and Mac, as well as apps on Apple iOS and Android devices.

  1. ^ a b c d "Spring Media adds Fanseat to portfolio". Sportbusiness.com. SBG Companies Limited. March 5, 2019. Retrieved March 3, 2021.
  2. ^ "Mestis-kausi käynnistyy tänään – huippujääkiekkoa katsottavissa Elisa Viihteessä". epressi.com. Elisa Oyj. September 14, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2021.
  3. ^ @FanseatCom (September 14, 2018). "From September onward Fanseat focuses on offering sports to its customers outside Finland only" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  4. ^ Čekal, Tomáš (September 30, 2020). "Tipsport Extraliga live on Fanseat". hokej.cz. eSports.cz. Retrieved March 3, 2021.