Thursday 2 August 2007

For Singaporean Viewers of English Premier League

StarHub today announced that it will add two more channels - Goal TV 1[1] (Channel 107) and Goal TV 2 (Channel 108) to its cable TV Sports Group package from 11 August 2007. Together with its new dedicated Barclays Premier League channel – Football Channel (Channel 27), these additions bring the number of channels available in the Sports Group from four to seven.

Other footnotes from the press release

- StarHub will air 370 matches this season, and will offer viewers up to 10 Premier League matches weekly, whereby up to eight of these matches will be aired ‘live. Most of the matches will be televised on Football Channel, with the simulcast matches to be aired on StarHub’s other self-packaged sports channels, SuperSports (Channel 22) and SuperSports Plus (Channel 21). Up to three ‘live’ Premier League matches will be aired concurrently on Saturday evenings

- Goal TV is the leading pan-Asian 24-hour channel dedicated to all football fans, and aggregates the best football content onto a TV platform, focusing on football clubs with a large Asian following. Goal TV 1 consists of exclusive programming related to Manchester United TV and Barcelona, plus selected ‘live’ and delayed coverage of the Scottish Premier League. Goal TV 2 consists of exclusive programming related to Liverpooland Chelsea TV, plus selected ‘live’ and delayed coverage of the Dutch League and French League.

For the full press release go here...

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