MLSLive.tv To Be Free Next Season?

Adweek has a very inter­est­ing arti­cle about net­work and league sites that are get­ting into online stream­ing. In it, MLS gets a men­tion and right­fully so. Since day one of the league, they have always had an online media pres­ence in some way or form. From being the first to stream games, to their part­ner­ship with YouTube (some­thing the Pre­mier League would prob­a­bly never do in our life­times), Major League Soc­cer was always ahead of the curve.

While I have a sub­scip­tion to the ser­vice, there is a pos­si­bil­ity that next sea­son every­one will be able to enjoy the ser­vice free of charge. Now there is no men­tion of how this would be treated inter­na­tion­ally, but at least for those in the United States it will go back to the days when they first started stream­ing games…at no cost. Now there will be adver­tis­ing, but if you can get some­thing for free I’ll take it.

Noth­ing is final­ized as of yet, but the fact it’s being dis­cussed is a pos­i­tive move. Dis­ney (ABC, ESPN) and FSC games won’t be eli­gi­ble for the free stream­ing on MLSLive.tv as the net­works own the online rights as well.

With the days of all the var­i­ous video stream­ing sites, this is a great way to get peo­ple look­ing at your site instead of others.

Thanks to MLS-Rumors for the story.