The site is also a strong advocate of free-to-air programming, a business model in which sports broadcasters generate revenue from advertising and do not directly charge the end-user. Streamhub – like Wiziwig before it – is a community-driven site dedicated to providing a friendly and information rich platform for both streamers and consumers. However, what most other sites don’t have is the same attitude towards free streaming. While there will excitement among streaming fans that Streamhub is gaining momentum, there are plenty of other options if users want to view free sports content online. Some have returned to their specialties in software and technology and P2P streaming helping hobbyists. Most specialize in different sports according to their passions and interests. “The mods that specialized in their areas at Wiziwig are doing the same here at StreamHub. About a dozen so far,” a site operator informs TF. Most of the former moderators have joined us here at StreamHub. Led by around a dozen of the site’s former moderators, in the months that followed a new site began to take shape. While shocked by the announcement, the mods came to the conclusion that even though Wiziwig’s operator had had enough, they hadn’t. We all got an email about 15 minutes before the public announcement was made,” a former operator informs TF. “The moderators of Wiziwig had no idea that it was going to close shop.
In the end the stakes were just too high.Īs is common following closures, Wiziwig’s users dispersed to other sites, along with the site’s staff who only learned of the closure shortly before the rest of the world. In the wake of the closure TF caught up with the site’s operator who told us that problems had been building for some time, in particular as a result of the English Premier League’s negative interest in the site.
The site didn’t charge users a penny and gained a fanatical following, but at the dawn of the year it all came to an end.Ĭiting a change in Spanish law where the site was hosted, on January 1, 2015, Wiziwig closed its doors leaving thousands of users without their sporting fix. For several years, the Wiziwig forum was visited by millions of people looking to view a broad selection of live sports programming.
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