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Posted on\u00a0Chad Gay<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u2014Audiences can soon hook free access to live coverage of Bassmaster professional bass fishing tournaments thanks to a new streaming rights partnership betweenRoku, America\u2019s No. 1 TV streaming platform, and Bassmaster, the world\u2019s leading authority on sportfishing. Upcoming Bassmaster LIVE events will include action from the brand-new Elite Qualifiers (EQ) Series, five\u00a0Bassmaster Open Series<\/a>\u00a0events, which set the field for the EQs, select coverage of all nine\u00a0Bassmaster Elite Series<\/a>\u00a0events, Friday coverage of the\u00a0Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Classic presented by Under Armour<\/a>\u00a0and a special prime time production of the Progressive Insurance Bassmaster Classic Celebrity Pro-Am presented by Yokohama,\u00a0all streaming for free on The Roku Channel.<\/p>\n

Kicking off with Thursday and Friday coverage of the 2025 Bassmaster Elite Series season on Feb. 20, the Bassmaster tournaments will stream live on The Roku Channel\u2019s Roku Sports Channel. Professional fishing fans can also enjoy replays of the live stream alongside additional on-demand content, clips and highlights across The Roku Channel, Roku Sports Channel and Roku\u2019s Sports Zone, plus a dedicated Bassmaster FAST channel launching later this year. The partnership will expand coverage availability of Bassmaster LIVE properties and further bolster Roku\u2019s free lineup of exclusive live sports.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an honor to call Roku the streaming home of Bassmaster, an iconic brand with a decades-spanning history of producing best-in-class professional fishing tournaments,\u201d said Joe Franzetta, head of sports, Roku Media. \u201cWe look forward to bringing these events for free to the passionate fanbase of this top outdoor sport, as well as introducing Bassmaster to new audiences, expanding the tournaments\u2019 reach to millions of streaming households in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are proud to bring so much live programming to Roku\u2019s fast-growing sports channel, and we\u2019re very excited about the creation of a new outlet for posted video content on a dedicated Bassmaster FAST channel on Roku.\u00a0It\u2019s thrilling to have one of the first streaming-rights partnerships in outdoor sports and the first for professional fishing on America\u2019s No. 1 streaming platform,\u201dsaid B.A.S.S. Chief Operations Officer Phillip Johnson.\u00a0\u201cThis partnership will allow Bassmaster to bring our\u00a0exciting\u00a0coverage of the highest level of professional bass fishing to Roku\u2019s enormous audience and introduce our sport to a new fan base.\u201d<\/p>\n

Viewers not familiar with Bassmaster events are in for a real treat, as the show follows the best bass anglers on the planet racing against the clock to catch the five biggest bass they can wrangle to end the multiday tournaments with the heaviest weight. Of course, high winds, rainstorms, intense heat waves and the drama of tricking largemouth and smallmouth bass into biting leads to intense moments, as the competitors vie for the coveted trophy and millions of dollars in prize money. New viewers and die-hard fishing fans alike can expect world-class coverage of each storyline as the catches unfold across the competitions.<\/p>\n

David Katz and Mike Kelly of ThePostGame, a leading sports media consultancy and content production company, represented Bassmaster in its recent third-party media negotiations and helped secure the partnership with Roku.<\/p>\n

The Roku Channel is available to stream for free \u2014 no subscription or sign-up required. Audiences can watch it on Roku devices or TVs, and it\u2019s also easily accessible online at\u00a0TheRokuChannel.com, iOS and Android devices, Amazon Fire TVs, Samsung TVs, Google TVs and other Android TV OS devices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Courtesy of BASS, LLC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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