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By: Jan. 11, 2016
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ONE World Sports, America's Network for Global Sports, today announced a multi-year, multiplatform agreement for exclusive carriage of Juventus TV (JTV). JTV is the club channel of Juventus Football Club S.p.A., the storied Italian soccer dynasty that is a cornerstone of Italy's top-flight Serie A first soccer division. Juventus secured their ninth straight Serie A win yesterday in a 2-1 defeat of Sampdoria.

ONE World Sports will air exclusive first-runs of complementary programming including pre- and post-game analysis, player interviews and profiles as well as encore presentations of matches. Juventus' first appearance on ONE World Sports will be on January 12 at 6:30 PM against U.C. Sampdoria.

"ONE World Sports partnership with Juventus, one of Italy's most storied clubs, is another clear indicator of our intention to align with the top sports clubs around the world to provide the highest quality and most diverse programming to our viewers," said Joel Feld, ONE World Sports Executive Vice President of Programming & Production. "The exclusive, behind-the-scenes action provided by JTV, coupled with the action on the pitch, allows fans to build an affinity for the players and a connection to Juventus as a whole."

Turin-based Juventus is Italy's third-oldest professional soccer franchise. The team contributed five players to Italy's victorious 2006 FIFA World Cup team and is the only Italian club that has contributed players to every Italian national team since the second World Cup. Juventus has been a strong competitor for the past two seasons. In2013-2014, it won a third consecutiveleague championship known as a scudetto with arecord 102 points. The title was the 30th official league championship in the club's history. The team also reached the semi-finals in201314 UEFA Europa Leaguecompetition.For201415, Juventus won its 31 st and fourth consecutive scudetto, and its 10th Coppa Italia (Italian Cup). The team also defeatedReal Madridin the semi-finals of the201415 UEFA Champions League, later going down in the final to Barcelona.

About ONE World Sports
ONE World Sports is America's Network for Global Sports, producing best-in-class, captivating live sports content from around the world. With multi-platform capabilities and superior production quality, ONE World Sports is one of the fastest growing independent sports networks available throughout the United States. Currently available to more than 30 million homes nationally on cable, telco and satellite, ONE World Sports delivers live and exclusive coverage of some of America's most popular sports played professionally outside the USA basketball, baseball, golf and ice hockey plus sporting events with the largest global followings, including soccer and cricket. ONE World Sports is distributed through Verizon FiOS, go90, DISH Network, Charter Communications, SONY Playstation Vue, Cablevision's Optimum TV, Mediacom Communications, Google Fiber, Suddenlink, RCN and a growing number of systems through the NCTC. In addition, the network's mobile app, Watch ONE World Sports, features a live stream of the network for authenticated subscribers and on-demand content for all users. More information on ONE World Sports and its availability in particular markets can be found at www.oneworldsports.com or consumers can call their television distributor. Watch ONE World Sports is available in the Apple and the Google Play stores.

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