A7FL® No-Helmets No-Pads Championship on Sunday August 16
BOCA RATON – The American 7s Football League (A7FL), pioneering no-helmets, no-pads, full-contact tackle football, and WAVE.tv, the sports media company for today’s fan, today announced a content partnership that will bring the league’s highlights to all WAVE.tv platforms. As the first football league to return to play in 2020, the A7FL is poised to crown a new champion in the 2020 A7FL Back in Motion Tournament presented by Salus® on August 16 when the league’s two undefeated teams, the NJ Hawks and the Patterson U, collide at 8 PM ET.
All the action from the A7FL’s current season as well as past and future highlights and digital content will be distributed across WAVE.tv’s portfolio of media brands, with an emphasis on WAVE.tv’s football media brands “JUKES” and “HARDCOUNT”. WAVE.tv will work with A7FL to create exciting custom programming for its Gen Z and Millennial audience of modern sports fans. The WAVE.tv network reaches 250 million viewers and receives 3.2 billion views monthly across it’s portfolio, on platforms including TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.
“This is another huge distribution partnership for the league,” commented A7FL CEO Sener Korkusuz, “Our new relationship with WAVE.tv will allow us to connect our hard-hitting league and amazing athletes with hungry sports fans being the first and only football league back to live action.”
“No pads, full contact and full of excitement! We’re pleased to bring A7FL to the WAVE.tv network. This is a wonderful add on to our football programming that our young sports fans will love,” said Greg Bobolo, SVP of Strategy and Digital Partnerships, WAVE.tv. “The A7FL is already seeing a very strong average viewership of over 400,000 per segment across our network. It reiterates the fact that there are great moments in sports across every fandom, from the NFL to A7FL and those backyard moments.”
The 2020 A7FL Back in Motion Tournament presented by Salus® began play on July 26 with a 4-team 4-week tournament broadcast LIVE from Yogi Berra Stadium in Montclair, NJ, by ELEVEN Sports and For the Fans (FTF) Network, with additional live digital distribution via Facebook Watch and Twitch. After 3 rounds of play, the New Jersey Hawks and the Paterson U will face off on Sunday, August 8 at 8:00 PM ET for the league’s first ever tournament championship. As part of the tournament, all athletes and other league personnel have been tested repeatedly for COVID-19 as part of the league’s stringent return to play protocol, and brought together into a COVID-19 free “biosphere” made possible by the Salus app.
About A7FL:
The American 7s Football League is reinventing football with nonstop action featuring 7-on-7 no helmets no pads full contact competition. Founded in 2014 by CEO Sener Korkusuz and President Ryan DePaul, the league has grown to 20 teams in 3 regional divisions and over 500K social media followers. In addition to Eleven Sports and its OTT platform FTFNext, the A7FL can be seen on Facebook Watch and Twitch.The league recently added UFC® co-founder David Isaacs to its ranks and launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on StartEngine, the world’s leading crowdfunding investment platform. Now fans can become league owners, visit www.a7fl.com/invest to learn more.
ABOUT WAVE.tv:
WAVE.tv is a sports media company for today’s fan. Through a portfolio of media brands, covering a wide array of fandoms and genres, WAVE.tv entertains modern day sports fans with the programming they love, produced for the digital platforms where they spend the most time.
Their programming can be discovered across Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and other core and emerging platforms. Each month, WAVE.tv’s entire portfolio reaches 60 million followers and subscribers (largely Gen-Z and Millennials) with a unique reach of 250 million and generating over 3 billion video views.
