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Samsung Milk Music Expands to Live College Sports Broadcasts
[September 01, 2015]

Samsung Milk Music Expands to Live College Sports Broadcasts


Are you ready for some college football? Just in time for NCAA football season, Samsung (News - Alert) Electronics America today announced that the Samsung Milk Music service will launch a Sports genre on the app's dial, offering consumers the opportunity to listen to live streams of their favorite college football and men's basketball teams no matter where they are. The sports stations will live stream games directly in the Samsung Milk Music app, giving fans access to more college football and basketball games than any other streaming music service. Samsung Milk Music is the only service to pair a high volume of schools and content with a full feature set for sports listeners.

Beginning with the start of college football on Thursday, September 3, Samsung Milk Music will live stream more than 900 college football games and conference championships from 122 universities. Once college basketball season kicks off later this fall, Samsung Milk Music will broadcast more than 3,000 games from 137 teams.

"We are thrilled to expand Samsung Milk Music to include college sports broadcasts, a terrific addition, delivering entertaining content to fit our consumers' lifestyles," said John Pleasants, executive vice president, Samsung Media Solutions Center America. "Comlementing the radio listening experience, our consumers have the flexibility to enjoy their favorite team's games, no matter where they are, on the device they love and use every day."



Additional Features Coming Soon

Samsung Milk Music will soon launch home game and away game audio feeds, giving fans access to the broadcast feed of their choice, so fans never feel too far from their college team. In addition, Samsung Milk Music will add sports talk content to the Sports genre from CBS Radio National Sports Talk shows.


All games and sports talk radio, enabled by SportsLabs, will be accessible via the Sports genre on the dial. Live stream content will appear on the dial once the pre-show has begun, including real-time score updates, until the post-show has been completed. Additionally, the Sports Guide, which is located via the main menu, will be updated daily, listing all of the day's available games and final game score listings.

About Samsung Milk Music

Launched in March 2014, Samsung Milk Music is a streaming radio service that's an instant and fun way to discover and play the streaming entertainment that you want to hear. In addition to the college football and men's basketball live streams and sports talk content, Samsung Milk Music currently has a music catalog of more than 200 genre-based and curated stations and a catalog of 13M songs. Samsung Milk Music sports content is available on the following Samsung Galaxy devices: Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S 6 edge+, Galaxy S 6, Galaxy S 6 edge, Galaxy Note 4, Galaxy Note Edge, Galaxy S 5, Galaxy Note 3, Galaxy S 4, Galaxy S 4 mini, Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III, Galaxy Mega, Galaxy S III mini, Galaxy Tab S, Tab S Pro, Note Pro 12.2, Galaxy Note 8.0, Galaxy Note 10.1, Note 10.1 (2014 Edition), Galaxy Tab 4 family, and the Galaxy Tab 3 family.

About Samsung Electronics America, Inc.

Headquartered in Ridgefield Park, NJ, Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (SEA), is a recognized innovation leader in consumer electronics design and technology. A wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., SEA delivers a broad range of digital consumer electronics, mobile products and wearables, wireless infrastructure, IT and home appliance products. Samsung is the market leader for HDTVs in the U.S and one of America's fastest growing home appliance brands. To discover more, please visit www.samsung.com.


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