for world titles fights involving australians, do the free to air networks get first crack at bidding for the rights? This happens in other sports, where the free to air networks are given the chance to bid first for sports events that are in the nations interest.
Looks like the Channel 10 24hr Sports Channel is a goer! Don't know where boxing rates in their plans? Particularly after the recent debarcle that led to the cancellation of the proposed FTA show in late October. Game on with 10's 24-hour sports channel Posted AM 28th October 2008 The Ten Network is to begin broadcasting a new high definition 24-hour sports channel early next year. The channel - a direct challenge to Fox Sports and other free-to-air stations - will televise both Australian and international sport. Fairfax newspapers report sport fans will be able to watch Australian swimming competitions - snatched from Channel Nine - US NBA basketball and major league baseball matches, the US Open golf and tennis championships, the US Masters golf, trans-Tasman netball, India's IPL Twenty20 cricket for five years and Formula One and Nascar motor racing. The HD channel will also feature a simulcast of next year's AFL grand final and an AFL review program on Monday nights featuring host Stephen Quartermain and football media identity and former coach Robert Walls. Ten has not confirmed the extent of the sporting onslaught, but Fairfax reports its executives are believed to have bought the rights to the sporting events at last week's annual Sportel trade show in Monaco. - AAP
sweet, didnt cedric tell us about this a few months ago? hope boxing gets shown ****in heaps! but once a week will be a start.
