Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Cable television networks, Austar and Foxtel, have come to an agreement to televise next year’s Vancouver Winter Olympics to Austar’s regional Australian subscribers.
Under the sales agency deal announced today, the
Vancouver winter Olympic Games will be showcased across four dedicated
channels, 24-hours a day for all 17 competition days.
Austar has also reached an agreement with Foxtel to broadcast on
multiple dedicated channels the Delhi Commonwealth Games in October
2010.
Austar CEO, John Porter, said today the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter
Games, on air from 12 February to 1 March 1, would be broadcast on four
dedicated channels themed on the geographic locations of the
competition that will take place in those regions.
Porter said more than 1,500 hours of athletic competition would be
broadcast in total, including for the first time live, every competing
Australian, every gold medal event, and every session of competition
broadcast from start to finish.
According to Porter, the deal with Foxtel would showcase the “vast
potential of subscription television,” and, he added "Australians love
their sport and none more so than those living in regional parts of the
country, and the Olympic Games offers the very best athletes from
around the world competing over an intense 17 day period.”
Porter said that, in previous Olympic Games, Australians had not been
able to see the full range of athletic competition, including many
significant Australian moments.
“With this new deal, the four dedicated, non-stop channels will ensure that you don’t need to miss a thing.”
And, Porter also says that in October in Delhi, Austar will be able to
build on what is offered in Vancouver “as the time difference means
that so much of the action will be able to be watched as it happens
live to Austar subscribers on multiple channels.”
Austar says it will offer customers the full suite of Vancouver 2010
channels for a one-off ‘early-bird’ cost of $50, for a limited time.
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