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News Limited confirm Foxtel plans
Aug 25th
As I reported on 28th June, Foxtel will be launching 30 new channels later this year and News Limited publication The Australian has provided confirmation of some of them.
They list the following new and expanded offerings: Showtime Greats will be dropped in favour of Showtime genre channels covering action, premiere, comedy and drama. With action and comedy appearing in High Definition. The Movie Network will add Starpics, and the Family Movie Channel (FMC) with Starpics and Movie One going HD.
On the sports front Fox Sports 1 and 2 will be HD, no word on the previously mentioned Eurosport just yet.
Fox8 and W will More >
Webber secures maiden pole position in Germany
Jul 12th
Australian Mark Webber has produced a perfectly-judged performance to grab his maiden Formula One pole position for Sunday’s German Grand Prix.
The Australian clocked one minute 32.230 to finish ahead of Brawn GP’s Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button. Sebastian Vettel was fourth in the second Red Bull as the unpredictable weather made for a thrilling afternoon. The improving McLaren of Lewis Hamilton will start fifth, equalling his best qualifying performance of the season.
Read More at BBC.co.uk
Fans in Britain Cringe as ESPN Takes Over Broadcasting Soccer
Jul 6th
PARIS — An advertising campaign for Budweiser in Britain a few years ago spoofed fears of what might happen to soccer if American television broadcasters had their druthers: “soccertainment,” complete with enhancements like multiple balls, monster trucks and loudmouth commentators.
The spots ended with Budweiser expressing second thoughts: “You do the football; we’ll do the beer.”
Now an American cable broadcaster, ESPN, is poised to “do the football” in Britain. Last month, ESPN bought the rights to show live English Premier League matches, picking them up after the British arm of Setanta, an Irish pay-TV company, collapsed. So is it time for British soccer More >
ONE SD coming to Foxtel cable
Jun 27th
TEN’s new 24 hour sports channel, ONE, will be available to Foxtel cable viewers in standard definition from July 1st.
The re-broadcast of ONE HD’s content will be allocated channel number 531 when it is played out to Foxtel cable subscribers.
ONE SD will be grouped with the sports genre channels. ONE HD has already been available to cable viewers with High Definition channels.
For satellite subscribers the situation is less clear, due once again, to awaiting space on an Optus satellite due to go up later in the year.
By David Knox on June 27, 2009 at http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2009/06/one-sd-coming-to-foxtel-cable.html
More >BBC SPORT | F1 teams drop breakaway bombshell
Jun 19th
Formula 1 has been thrown into chaos after eight of its major teams said they are now planning to set up a rival championship for the 2010 season.
The threat by members of the F1 Teams Association (Fota) escalates their row with world motorsport boss Max Mosley over his budget cap proposals.
“The teams have declined to alter their original conditional entries to the 2010 F1 Championship,” said the teams.
“We’ve no alternative than to commence preparation for a new championship.”
Mosley was insistent on introducing a voluntary £40m budget cap for teams to curtail a “financial arms race” in F1.
But Fota refused to More >
