Amazon’s free, ad-supported streaming service, Freevee, has entered its second international market, Germany. 

The rollout follows deployment of the AVOD service in the U.K. last year.

Freevee originals making the trip to Germany include Amazon Prime Video spinoff Bosch: Legacy, reality court show Judy Justice, and sports documentaries Uninterrupted's Top Class: The Life and Times of the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers and Moment of Truth.

Amazon rebranded the erstwhile IMDB TV into Freevee earlier this year. It hasn't published an active user total for the platform. 

“In the U.S. and the U.K., we have quickly differentiated ourselves in the free streaming landscape through a hybrid of exclusive originals from Amazon Studios and highly sought-after movies and television,” Lauren Anderson and Ryan Pirozzi, co-heads of content and programming, Amazon Freevee, said. “We look forward to building on this momentum, and establishing Amazon Freevee as the premier AVOD destination in Germany as we deliver customers a growing slate of widely appealing content through a personalized streaming experience.” ￭

The draw for the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup will unfold in Ottawa this Saturday and the U.S. rights-holders to the tourney will provide extensive coverage of the group selections.

Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo and its cable cousin mun 2 will simulcast the draw on Dec. 6 at noon (ET), while Fox Sports 1 and Fox Sports 2 are also in the game. Distaff futbol fans can also keep abreast of the picks on Deportes Telemundo En Vivo Extra App and via the authenticated Fox Sports GO platform.

During the ceremony at the Canadian Museum of History, the 24 teams will be selected into six groups of four sides. Host nation Canada, the U.S., FIFA's top-ranked team, No. 2 Germany and defending champion Japan, which currently holds down the third position, are expected to head four of the groupings.

In addition to Canada and the U.S., CONCACAF has two other representatives: Mexico and Costa Rica, while South America’s CONMEBOL has Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador. Europe has seven other sides besides the Germans: Norway, Sweden, England, France, Switzerland, Spain and Holland. Africa has three entries, Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Cameroon, while Australia and New Zealand emerged from Oceania.  Japan, along with China, Korea Republic and Thailand, comprise the Asian contingent.

The FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015 will play out across six host cities: Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal and Moncton, kicking off Saturday, June 6 and ending with the championship match on July 5. 

Telemundo’s coverage will be led by legendary sportscaster Andrés Cantor, in concert with Jessi Losada, three-time top Mexican scorer Carlos Hermosillo, and former Chivas de Guadalajara player Manuel Sol. Veteran commentator Sammy Sadovnik and Ritmo Deportivo host Leti Coo will report from Canada.

Deportes Telemundo’s coverage will include profiles on top women’s players from around the globe, as well as interviews with Hispanic players and coaches from some of the leading Latin American teams, including Leonardo Cuéllar, a recent inductee into the World Soccer Hall of Fame, and the coach, with his son, of the Mexican national women’s team.  

Rob Stone is the face on the Fox flank from Los Angeles, anchoring FS1’s hour-long show, which will mark the first time since the tourney was held Stateside in 1999 that the women’s draw will be televised in this nation in English.

Sky Sports correspondent Kate Abdo will be on the scene north of the border, where she will work with three-time Olympic gold medalist and retired U.S. team defender Heather Mitts; Ariane Hingst, a two-time World Cup champ with Germany; Kelly Smith, England’s all time national team goal-scorer; and Tony DiCicco, the head coach of the 1999 U.S. World Cup champions.   

Fox Sports soccer insider and Sports Illustrated senior columnist Grant Wahl will provide analysis and get the post-draw reaction from current U.S. head coach Jill Ellis in Canada.

If any doubt remained about the ascendancy of World Cup audiences, ESPN and Univision combined to average 12.4 million viewers for their coverage of Germany’s semifinal blitzkrieg of Brazil in the tourney’s first semifinal Tuesday afternoon.

Both U.S. rights-holders netted semifinal viewing records for Die Mannschaft's 7-1 drubbing of the host nation. ESPN averaged a 4.2 household rating and 6.64 million watchers, making it the highest-rated and most-viewed World Cup semifinal on any U.S. network, according to Nielsen data.

Univision and Univision Deportes Network’s simulcast delivered its most-viewed World Cup semifinal match ever, averaging 5.8 million viewers, half of whom were persons 18 to 49.

Amazingly, Univision reported that viewership increased in every half hour – the Germans embarrassed Brazil with a five-goal flurry from the 11th to the 28th minute  – kicking off at 4 p.m. (ET) with 4.9 million watchers and peaking with 6.7 million in the final hour.

Similarly, ESPN’s television coverage peaked in the final half hour of the match (5:30–6 p.m.) with a 4.6 rating and 7.5 million viewers.

Brazil, playing without Neymar, its best player and the tournament’s face and captain Thiago Silva, had not lost a competitive home game since 1975, a span encompassing 63 matches.

The previous best World Cup semifinal mark was ESPN’s 3.4 rating and 5.85 million million watchers for Germany-Italy during World Cup 2006 in Germany. Tuesday’s rout also represented increases of 56% from the 2.7 rating and 58% from the 4.2 million watchers over the comparable Uruguay-Netherlands semifinal four years ago from South Africa.

Excluding U.S. team matches, Brazil-Germany is the highest-rated World Cup match ever on ESPN/ESPN2, surpassing the 4.0 rating and 6.57 million viewers for Mexico-The Netherlands during their  Round of 16 encounter on June 29.

For the Spanish-language telecaster, the match bested the previous semifinal high set on July 7, 2010 for Germany-Spain by 37% among total viewers and 24% among adults 18 to 49, according to Univision officials.

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