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Follow the racing, follow the America’s Cup

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
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ON SITE
AMERICA’S CUP PARK – BIG SCREEN TELEVISION
The big screen television in the America’s Cup Park will be showing live-action from the race course, along with features, packaged programmes, and highlights.
ON TELEVISION
Through the agreements with the European Broadcasting Union, which reaches 56 territories and has an audience of over 650 million and, globally, with Sports News TV spanning 160 territories, broadcasting to over 1.4 billion people and also with Transworld Sport with a global audience of over 302 million, the America’s Cup News packages are assured of a massive international audience of over 2 billion viewers.
Among the broadcasters are Great Britain’s BSkyB, TVE/Teledeporte and Canal 9 in Spain, French based Eurosport and Showtime in the Middle East. Broadcasters will take all of the America’s Cup output, including the 26 minutes race day Highlights package, Race News package as well as the 52 minutes summary wrap up programme at the end of the event.
A full listing will be available soon.
ON-LINE
WWW.AMERICASCUP.COM
The official America’s Cup website keeps you posted with news reports, feature stories, videos and pictures and all the official information of the 33rd America’s Cup in English, Spanish and French.
LIVE VIDEO STREAMING
For the first time in the history of the America’s Cup, races will be broadcast live free of charge on www.americascup.com. Video feed will be supplemented (in French and Spanish) with a Live Ticker animated by the best sailing experts

THE CUP ON FACEBOOK
 Join us on the official 33rd America’s Cup page where you will find all the latest posts around the event. Pages in English, Spanish and French have been created.


FOLLOW  ON TWITTER
A dedicated team has been setup to chase the latest information during the event and exclusive information from the race will be posted real time for you.

ALINGHI TWITTER
BMW ORACLE TWITTER
Info: http://americascup.com

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33 America’s cup 2010 TV coverage

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Coverage of the America’s Cup will be streamed live, free, over the Internet, according to recent announcements by Defender SNG and their event partner.

Preliminary Schedule:

Date Programming
Feb 6 Preview Show
Feb 7 Preview Show
Feb 8 Race Day
Feb 9 Recap
Feb 10 Race Day
Feb 11 Recap
Feb 12 Race Day (if needed)

Europe and Satellite:
Television: Live on British Eurosport (Sky 410/Virgin 521), BSkyB (UK), TVE/Teledeporte/Canal 9 (Spain), Eurosport (France)
Internet: On the Web in Europe via Eurosport Player and americascup.com
This portion of the plan was announced January 22, 2010. Read More

United States and Canada:
Internet: At americascup.com and possibly also ESPN360
Television: Not known at this time whether there will be a broadcast partner.

Elsewhere:
Internet: Partners to be announced.
Television: Middle East: Showtime.  It is not known at this time whether there will be a broadcast partner in other countries.

More info at: http://www.cupinfo.com/en/ac33schedule-main.php

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America’s Cup in Valencia 2010

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

The New York Court dismisses Ras al-Khaimah and confirms Valencia to host the next America’s Cup

The Supreme Court of the State of New York has upheld an earlier decision that the series should be based in the Spanish port as desired by US team Oracle.

It rejected an appeal of that judgement filed by America’s Cup holders Alinghi of Switzerland who wanted the races to be held in the United Arab Emirates.

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33rd America’s Cup set for five or seven legs

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Oracle and Alinghi have agreed that the 33rd America’s Cup set for Valencia next year will be either a five-leg or seven-leg competition instead of the the best-of-three event that has been proposed, the mayor of the Spanish port city said Friday.

An agreement in principle in this sense was reached at a meeting in the city on Thursday between representatives of the two sides, Valencia mayor Rita Barbera said.

The two sides were meeting to prepare the next edition of the sailing race in the case the New York Supreme Court cofirms next week Valencia as the location for the event as desired by Oracle of the United States.

Defending Swiss champions Alinghi want the race to take place in the port of Ras al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates but Oracle has contested its choice in court.

Oracle, owned by American computer billionaire Larry Ellison, launched a legal challenge in 2007 that accused Alinghi, which as defending champion is charged with organising the next event, of bending the rules to give it an unfair advantage.

The New York Supreme Court ruled in April that the Cup should be settled by a one-on-one multihull duel between the two sides next February instead of the traditional fully-fledged regatta with several teams involving seven legs.

Via (AFP) & Yahoo News:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091211/sp_wl_afp/yachtingamcup_20091211171613

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America’s Cup 2010 preparations back on track

Friday, December 11th, 2009

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Valencia mayoress, Rita Barberá, announced today that Alinghi and BMW-Oracle had agreed to increase the number of America’s Cup regattas to either five or seven and that both teams had agreed to more their boats on the marina’s inner dock.

After three hours of “intensive, but productive” discussions, Barberá made the decisions public and reiterated that “with only two months to go until the competition, there was a lot of work still to be done” and also pointed out that it was still not 100% certain that Valencia would be hosting the regatta since both teams were still awaiting the outcome of Alinghi‘s latest appeal.

The meeting included Tom Ehman, spokesman for BMW-Oracle; Lucien Masmejan, Alinghi‘s lawyer; Gerardo Camps, vice president of Valencia city Council and Ricardo Peralta, the government’s delegate in the Comunidad Valenciana; team representatives and members of the regatta’s international jury amongst others.

It was also agreed today that a ‘reserve base’ would be negotiated in the Valencia’s commercial port, to be used if sea and weather conditions make it too dangerous to bring the boats into the marina.  This means that the American team will no longer have to consider mooring its boat in Sagunto, which had been suggested.

Both teams were in agreement that the match should be disputed over more than the minimum of three races stipulated in the America’s Cup rules, but have yet to decide whether there will be five or seven in total.

The spokesman for BMW-Oracle said that the meeting had shown the “good intentions” of the part of the authorities and both teams “to ensure a fantastic 33rd America’s Cup” and confirmed that today’s meeting had been “a good launchpad”.

Via: http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/17403/americas-cup-preparations-back-on-track

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