Trophy envy: Swedish Dressage athlete Patrik Kittel tries out the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup trophy for size, whilst compatriot, former European Champion Peder Fredricson takes hold of the FEI Dressage World Cup trophy. Photo by Liz Gregg/Courtesy FEI
FEI.TV, the international Equestrian Federation’s (FEI) online television platform, will be providing all its coverage of past events and special equestrian features free of charge to everyone while live sport is on hold until end of June.
Under normal circumstances, FEI TV live-streams all major FEI series and championships, with an extensive range of replays, special features and historic events coverage available on-demand combining to provide unparalleled coverage of equestrian sport year-round.
But with no live sport, access to FEI.TV will be free and existing subscribers will be compensated for the months of April, May and June. They will automatically be refunded on their account. All content on the platform, including video on demand, will be freely available to all users who will need to register, meaning that fans can re-live all the action from past events so there’s no need to miss out on your fix of equestrian sport.
“Premium content like this usually sits behind a paywall and is normally available only to subscribers, but while there is no “live” sport, we want to give equestrian fans the chance to binge-watch for free during this terrible pandemic,” FEI Commercial Director Ralph Straus says.
The Longines FEI Jumping World Cup and FEI Dressage World Cup Finals in Las Vegas were one of the early high-profile victims of the COVID-19 outbreak when they were cancelled in mid-March. But jumping and dressage fans now have the opportunity to relive some of the very best moments of the FEI World Cup Finals from the past five years—2015 to 2019—live and free on FEI.TV, FEI Jumping and Dressage Facebook pages, and the FEI YouTube channel daily. And if you can’t watch it live, catch it on replay on FEI.TV.
For fans of the other equestrian disciplines, FEI.TV has lots more unique content, ranging from FEI Vaulting and Driving World Cup highlights to wrap-ups of the FEI Eventing and Dressage Nations Cup series.
An additional broadcast offering has been made available by the FEI, equestrian sport’s global governing body, providing free access to video archive footage to TV broadcasters in European Broadcast Union (EBU) member territories across Europe through its partnership with EBU, and to key territories in the rest of the world via its partnership with IMG.
“Our broadcast partners are struggling to fill their air-time without live sport, so this initiative has been put in place to ensure that they have access to top equestrian footage and, together, we can keep our fans around the world happy with their daily dose of equestrian content,” Straus says.
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