Samsung is expanding its investment in the Samsung TV Plus service with all-new premium programming partnerships. Content creators and partners alike recognise the incredible value in Samsung TV Plus. In fact, viewership of the service grew over 60 per cent year-over-year in Canada.

“Samsung strives to deliver quality entertainment that resonates with consumers. New content arriving on Samsung TV Plus in Canada includes fan-favourite reality TV shows, French-language channels, news and major sports leagues like MLB,” said Salek Brodsky, SVP and GM, Samsung TV Plus. “Through our key strategic partnerships with Bell Media, A+E Networks and more, we continue to expand and deliver on our Samsung TV Plus offering with genres that consumers love.”

• A+E Networks:  An expanded suite of channels will launch from A+E Networks with fan favorites such as Duck Dynasty, Dog the Bounty Hunter, and Tiny House Nation, among others
• Bell Media: Samsung TV Plus and Bell Media are partnering to bring 10 English and French-language channels, featuring a selection of acclaimed and popular  programming across general entertainment, news, and sports, including CTV News, TSN the Ocho, Corner Gas Channel, CTV Laughs, and Noovo comédies, cinéma, and télé-réalités
• Local News: Samsung is bringing even more local news channels to our audience with CBC News BC and CBC News Toronto
• LGBTQ+ Content: Samsung recently launched OutTV Proud, a FAST channel created by OUTtv and Fuse Media serving LGBTQ audiences with premium content including Canadian-produced, original scripted and reality series, documentaries, and specials.

Betting Big on Sports 

Samsung TV Plus will soon be a destination for sports fans with a suite of top league channels that will deliver live sports from Major League Baseball (MLB) and ONE Championship TV (Combat Sports). Highlights include:

• MLB: Samsung TV Plus and MLB are partnering up to bring the best of baseball coverage to FAST, allowing viewers to enjoy the MLB FAST channel with a weekly game replay, Minor league game replays, daily highlights and game recaps, among other content exclusives to come later in the season
• ONE Championship TV: The launch of ONE Championship TV will bring combat sports content to the service, featuring unique live events, highlights, series and behind-the scenes access from the world’s largest martial arts organisation

Creators, Family, Music and More 

Since its inception, Samsung TV Plus has prioritized delivering the  best in content to cater to viewer preferences. With the rise of creator content, expansion of family viewing and love for music, Samsung TV Plus has built out its content library to target these rising genres including:

• Popular Independent Animated Content: The exclusive launch of Animation+, a new channel featuring fan-favourite content from premium YouTube creators offers hundreds of hours of adult animation content
• Family Friendly: In addition to BBC Kids, a channel kids love and parents can trust, with loads of exciting shows from Hey Duggee to Horrible Histories and Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures to MI High, we have expanded our current partnership with Moonbug Entertainment to deliver the first and only Blippi branded FAST linear channel
• Music Aficionados: Samsung TV Plus has enhanced its music offering with Stingray to deliver new popular music channels as well as French language channels

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