Apple TV Sports Content Including F1, MLS, and Friday Night Baseball Coming to Bars and Restaurants

[MacRumors]

Apple has inked a deal with EverPass Media to bring Apple TV sports content to EverPass customers in the United States. EverPass is a company that bundles premium sports content for restaurants, hotels, casinos, sports bars, and other businesses that want to air sporting events.

EverPass will now be able to offer Formula 1, Major League Soccer, and Major League Baseball content to its customers at no additional cost through the main EverPass Core content package. That package also includes Paramount+'s UEFA Champions League, Prime Video's Thursday Night Football, NBA, WNBA and more.

The deal includes all-access coverage of every F1 Grand Prix, including practice, qualifying, and Sprint sessions. For MLS, EverPass customers will be able to show enhanced feature matches every weekend during the regular season, plus MLS All-Star Game, Leagues Cup, MLS Cup, and pre-and post-match programming. Also included is Friday Night Baseball, with two MLB Friday night games per week.

Apple TV sporting content will be available through EverPass alongside NFL Sunday Ticket, Peacock Sports Pass, Prime Video sports content, and Paramount+.

Article Link: Apple TV Sports Content Including F1, MLS, and Friday Night Baseball Coming to Bars and Restaurants

 

[skymovieguy]

You know. If Apple is reading and you can add a HIDE ALL SPORTS option in the Apple TV app - that would be great. There are some people out there that really don’t care about it and don’t want to see it.

 

[DeftwillP]

So I can cancel my F1TV sub this year. I see that I'd have to get F1 through EverPass but is that included with apple 1 plus premium whatever subscription?

 

[John.B]

So I can cancel my F1TV sub this year. I see that I'd have to get F1 through EverPass but is that included with apple 1 plus premium whatever subscription?

Everpass is for business that want to have sports on TVs for their patrons. Bars, restaurants, that sort of thing. You would not want to pay for it.

 

[entropys]

Can’t Apple expand coverage of F1 to other countries, such as Oz? Sick of the poms running Sky coverage.

 

[minik]

You know. If Apple is reading and you can add a HIDE ALL SPORTS option in the Apple TV app - that would be great. There are some people out there that really don’t care about it and don’t want to see it.

I don’t want to see anything related to Sci-Fi or horror.

 

[matthew12]

So I can cancel my F1TV sub this year. I see that I'd have to get F1 through EverPass but is that included with apple 1 plus premium whatever subscription?

So if you have Apple One, you can link your Apple TV account online to an F1 account to gain free access to F1. Everpass is exclusively for places like bars, restaurants, etc. If you've been to a sports bar, they're likely either using Everpass or commercial mass-viewing cable/satellite services. Everpass isn't for you, it's for sports bars.

 

[Charlie Bonesx]

our local just uses one of the regular's Apple TV subs for mlb/mls

 

[philstubbington]

Can’t Apple expand coverage of F1 to other countries, such as Oz? Sick of the poms running Sky coverage.

With a VPN you might be able to get coverage via other providers. Channel 4 in the UK for example.

 

[DocMultimedia]

Good move by Apple. Had to do this at some point as they get larger in the sports market.

 

[lazyrighteye]

You know. If Apple is reading and you can add a HIDE ALL SPORTS option in the Apple TV app - that would be great. There are some people out there that really don’t care about it and don’t want to see it.

I wouldn't mind seeing more interface customization with any of the streamers. 90% of the crap I'm bombarded with at launch, is of zero interest. As much as I would like it, no streamer is going to offer user-level customization of a homepage.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

You’ve three wishes and you’re using your first to ban TVs in public spaces in situations where they’re forced upon you against your will.

No, but for the purposes of this comment I’ll say yes.

🤭

 

[marte91]

I don’t want to see anything related to Sci-Fi or horror.

Everyone should be able to choose what kind of content they want to see/not see.

 

[chrfr]

So I can cancel my F1TV sub this year. I see that I'd have to get F1 through EverPass but is that included with apple 1 plus premium whatever subscription?

If you're in the US, you get what was the F1 TV Premium package (4k, etc.) as part of your Apple TV/Apple One subscription. You won't even be able to renew your F1 TV subscription in the US, but you won't need to if you have Apple TV already.

 

[roklanhavok]

With all the effort and time Apple has put into sports it must be working out for them.

 

[Johnstrass2]

You know. If Apple is reading and you can add a HIDE ALL SPORTS option in the Apple TV app - that would be great. There are some people out there that really don’t care about it and don’t want to see it.

I was resentful about cable TV because if I wanted to watch a certain channel, I had to get packages that included sports == I was forced to subsidize pro sports.==

It’s unfortunate that it looks like Apple is going down the same route. I would not be surprised if there were a major hike in the monthly fee for Apple TV to cover what they’re spending for professional sports.

 

[Milquetoast]

FWIW, I look at AppleTV+ and if I hit the race for Australia, I see a "Austrailian GP Events" - a Weekend Warmup and a set of similar-looking panels for the practice sessions, the qualy and the race - and a separate set of event panels (but not including the Weekend Warmup) under "Australia Events: Sky Sports" - each with a Sky Sports logo. I was able to "add" each of both types to my watchlist. This is confusing and will likely be so until "show time".

 

[Jeeve Stubbs]

Imagine an Apple Hotel.

 

[svish]

Looks like Apple is paying more attention to sports content as well as different ways to gain customers. Anyway good to know about this.

 

[hagar]

I don’t want to see anything related to Sci-Fi or horror.

There’s no separate sci-fi or horror channels in the sidebar though.

 

[nickhutson]

Can’t Apple expand coverage of F1 to other countries, such as Oz? Sick of the poms running Sky coverage.

The Poms don't run it - the Americans do 🙂 It's owned by Comcast.

 

[chrfr]

FWIW, I look at AppleTV+ and if I hit the race for Australia, I see a "Austrailian GP Events" - a Weekend Warmup and a set of similar-looking panels for the practice sessions, the qualy and the race - and a separate set of event panels (but not including the Weekend Warmup) under "Australia Events: Sky Sports" - each with a Sky Sports logo. I was able to "add" each of both types to my watchlist. This is confusing and will likely be so until "show time".

You can use the F1TV app as well, you just need to link with your Apple account once you open the app.

 

[chrfr]

The Poms don't run it - the Americans do 🙂 It's owned by Comcast.

Formula 1 is owned by Liberty Media, which among other things owns SiriusXM, but not Comcast. In some respects, Liberty is a Comcast competitor.

 

[CarAnalogy]

You know. If Apple is reading and you can add a HIDE ALL SPORTS option in the Apple TV app - that would be great. There are some people out there that really don’t care about it and don’t want to see it.

They will never do this. Just like they'll never offer an option to hide Apple TV+ and just show your own purchased content.

It's not there for your benefit, it's there to constantly advertise at you in the hopes that one day someone will click on it, even if accidentally.

That's why they discontinued the TV apps and iTunes. They don't want you to watch what you want, they want you to see what they push to you.

 

[nickhutson]

Formula 1 is owned by Liberty Media, which among other things owns SiriusXM, but not Comcast. In some respects, Liberty is a Comcast competitor.

Sorry - thought you were referring to Sky 🙂