Sail TV wins rights for ISAF Sailing World Championships
06/07/2007 |
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Sail TV, the world’s internet television channel, has been appointed as the exclusive Broadband Live Broadcaster for the ISAF Sailing World Championships. The channel will be broadcasting live coverage of the Medal Races for 2 hours daily from 9-13 July. Live coverage will not be available on any other broadband platform and Sail TV is proud to be offering this exclusive opportunity to sailing fans around the world.
With over 1,300 sailors from 76 nations competing for 11 World Championship titles, the ISAF Sailing World Championships is the largest sporting event of its kind outside the Olympic Games. It is the principle qualifying event for the Beijing Olympics next year.
Andy STEWARD, Sail TV’s Managing Director said, 'Following the tremendous success of our coverage at the 32nd America’s Cup in Valencia, in conjunction with AmericasCupAnywhere by Alcatel-Lucent, we are delighted to be broadcasting the ISAF Sailing World Championships to our growing global audience. The addition of this high profile event to our schedule demonstrates the importance of broadband television as a distribution platform for sailing. It also illustrates the progress Sail TV has made, with a growing global audience, and that the channel is now widely acknowledged as the world’s leading provider of sailing content online.'
The channel will be providing two modes of coverage from Cascais, with a daily news update which is free to view, and live programming coverage of the event will be available for a one-off payment of 4.99 Euros for the five days of coverage. The Live show will then be available once ‘off-air’ to subscribers if they wish to watch the show later at any time.
Claire FROST, Head of Marketing and Media at ISAF added, 'Sail TV offers instant access to the top sailing events around the world and ISAF is delighted to be working with the channel in delivering live coverage of the ISAF Worlds to an international audience.'
(Source: ISAF)
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