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  • BDO Hockey Champions Trophy live on Ten Sports

    MUMBAI: The biggest stars in world hockey will be on show for the next 9 days on Ten Sports as the channel shows exclusive live coverage of the biggest womens hockey event of the year. The BDO Champions Trophy in Quilmes, Argentina will see the top 6 nations in action with each match shown live along with prime time highlights of each days’ action.

    Hosts Argentina will take on defending champions Germany, World Cup winners the Netherlands, Australia, Japan and Spain in a highly anticipated tournament, as the sides start their build up to the Beijing Olympics. The Indian womens team are currently 13th in the Sahara World Rankings and miss out on the event.

    Live coverage begins with Netherlands against Spain at 2330 IST on the 13th of January with highlights of all three games from day 1 at 2030 IST on the 14th of January.

    Ten Sports has the exclusive rights to broadcasts the biggest international hockey events including the World Cups and the Champions Trophies. The channel will also broadcast India’s next world ranked event, as they attempt to climb back into the elite of mens hockey by winning the Champions Challenge in June.

    Schedule:

    Match Date Match # IST Match
    Sat 13 Jan 2007
    1
    23:30
    		 Netherlands vs Spain
     
    2
    01:45
    		 Japan vs Australia
     
    3
    04:45
    		 Argentina vs Germany
     
     
     
    		  
    Sun 14 Jan 2007
    4
    00:30
    		 Netherlands vs Japan
     
    5
    02:45
    		 Australia vs Germany
     
    6
    05:45
    		 Spain vs Argentina
    Tue 16 Jan 2007
    7
    00:30
    		 Spain vs Australia
     
    8
    02:45
    		 Germany vs Japan
     
    9
    05:45
    		 Argentina vs Netherlands
     
     
     
    		  
    Thu 18 Jan 2007
    10
    00:30
    		 Germany vs Spain
     
    11
    02:45
    		 Australia vs Netherlands
     
    12
    05:45
    		 Japan vs Argentina
     
     
     
    		  
    Sat 20 Jan 2007
    13
    21:45
    		 Netherlands vs Germany
     
    14
    00:00
    		 Spain vs Japan
     
    15
    02:15
    		 Argentina vs Australia
     
     
     
    		  
    Sun 21 Jan 2007
    16
    00:15
    		 5th vs 6th
     
    17
    03:00
    		 3rd vs 4th
     
    18
    05:45
    		 1st vs 2nd
  • FIH event’ ratings improving

    FIH event’ ratings improving

    MUMBAI: The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has announced that it has improved its television distribution and television ratings for its major events in 2006 compared to previous years.

    This improvement, which resulted to good figures, was achieved since the FIH decided to take the television distribution ‘in-house’.

    The Champions Trophies, besides the two World Cups two other major FIH events played in 2006, achieved a strong rating. The Rabobank Champions Trophy Women, played in Amstelveen, Netherlands, was shown for the first time on the Chinese terrestrial channel CCTV5.

    The Sahara Champions Trophy men, which took place in Terrassa, Spain, achieved high figures in Pakistan. The national channel PTV1 broadcasted four matches at prime time and achieved a TV rating of 44 per cent from an average of 12.95 million viewers.

    The BDO World Cup Men, played in Monchengladbach, Germany early September, was shown in 150 countries worldwide. This is an increase of 54 countries compared to the previous World Cup in 2002. The Samsung World Cup Women, which took place in Madrid, Spain from 24 September until 8 October, was also shown in 150 countries

    This is an increase of almost 100 percent. The final of the Samsung World Cup was watched live by more than 1.5 million Dutch hockey fans through the national broadcaster of Netherlands NOS. This is a market share of 33 percent, while almost ten percent of the entire Dutch population was watching the final.