Four new channels will offer a wide range of sports to please fans of football, cricket, rugby, extreme sports and more
Singapore, 7 December, 2010 – Singapore Telecommunications Limited today announced that it has added four compelling new sports channels to its mio TV line-up, giving sports fans even more choice.
“With Barclays Premier League, UEFA Champions League and other marquee sporting action on the ESPN STAR Sports network, mio TV offers the most compelling sports programming and has attracted a significant base of Singapore sports fans,” said Mr Edward Ying, Chief, Multimedia. “mio TV continues to deliver the promise as the Home of Sports by further enhancing our sports offering with four new channels - All Sports Network (ASN), GOALTVT 1 and 2 and Ten Cricket.”
To thank sports fans for their support of mio TV, Ten Cricket will be available as a free preview till 15 December and the rest of the channels will be available for free to all mio TV subscribers until 2 January, 2011.
All Sports Network (ASN), GOALTVTM 1 and 2 and Ten Cricket are now available on mio TV.
ASN (Channel 129) features some of the most exciting live sporting action in High Definition (HD) from the US such as the National Football League (NFL), National Hockey League (NHL), NCAA college sports (basketball, baseball, tennis, swimming, track and field and more), Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC), extreme sports as well as motor sports such as the Nascar Sprint Cup Series and Formula Drift.
Football fans will be pleased to know that GOALTV 1 and 2 (Channels 112 and 113) will be returning to local screens, now available only on mio TV. GOALTV is a dedicated football network offering Asian audiences unrivalled coverage of top European football. Its comprehensive coverage includes exclusive ‘live’ matches from the Carling Cup, Scottish Premier League, Dutch League and the English Championship as well as unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to major European clubs through club channel programming from Chelsea TV, Liverpool TV, Manchester City TV, in addition to Barcelona TV, Real Madrid TV and Bayern Munich TV. Content on the channels include exclusive interviews and magazine shows from the clubs.
Spanning two channels, GOALTV 1 and 2 will provide football fans with unique insight into their favourite teams with up-to-the-minute news, views and interviews, pre-and post- match expert analysis.
Mr Thomas Kressner, CEO, Goal TV (Asia) Ltd., commented, “Since the successful launch of the Goal TV Network in 2004, Goal TV has built a strong and loyal fan base in Singapore especially for the Scottish Premier League, Dutch League and the top-flight English and Spanish club channels. We are delighted to have Singtel as our new platform partner. On top of that we are now happy to be able to offer our viewers the opportunity to experience more LIVE English football action with exclusive broadcasts from The English Championship and The Carling Cup. With the increase in live league and cup matches, the extension of our club channels offering to include Real Madrid, more than 50 full matches per week can be enjoyed on Goal TV. This undoubtedly makes Goal TV the recognised home for soccer fans in Singapore. “
Ten Cricket (Channel 122) is one of Asia's leading international cricket channel featuring live coverage of all international cricket played in Sri Lanka, South Africa, Pakistan, West Indies and Zimbabwe together with exclusive archive and magazine programming showcasing many of the legends of the game. Mr Atul Pande, CEO Ten Sports commented, "We are delighted to be partnering with Singtel to make Ten Cricket available to more of the many thousands of cricket loving households in Singapore and we are especially excited to launch with India's tour to South Africa which promises to be the most competitive series for many years."
The acquisition of the Ten Cricket channel together with the exclusive cricket coverage on STAR Cricket makes Singtel’s cricket offering the best there is in Singapore. Fans will now be able to watch India travel to South Africa and West Indies along with the exclusive coverage of currently on-going Ashes, the Cricket World Cup in February 2011 and all the exciting cricket action from England and Australia.
GoalTV, Ten Cricket and ASN are each available at $19.90 (including GST) but mio Stadium subscribers pay only $9.90 per month to add on each of the channels. STAR Cricket subscribers will be able to enjoy Ten Crickets at no additional cost and continue to pay $19.90 for both channels.
As a promotional offer, from now till 28 February 2011, football fans can subscribe to both mio Stadium and GoalTV for a special price of just $29.90 per month.
How to Subscribe to mio TV
Customers can sign up at any Singtel Retail Store, or by calling our Hotline at 1610.
About mio TV
mio TV is Singtel’s innovative digital pay TV service launched in July 2007. To date, the network has signed up over 245,000 customers.
mio TV offers a total of 69 channels, of which 22 are on-demand channels. Content on mio TV covers a wide range of genres as well as Singapore’s largest range of video-on-demand titles, with movies aired as early as three months after cinematic release and TV series as early as 24 hours after their US debut.
mio TV was the first to launch an interactive TV service that allows viewers to access real time information and participate in opinion polls via its mio Stadium channel.
Singtel is Asia’s leading communications group providing a portfolio of services including voice, data, and video services over fixed, wireless, mobile and Internet platforms.
About Singtel
Singtel is Asia's leading communications group providing a portfolio of services including voice and data solutions over fixed, wireless and Internet platforms as well as infocomm technology and pay TV. The Group has presence in Asia and Africa reaching more than 368 million mobile customers in 25 countries, including Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand. It also has a network of 36 offices in 19 countries and territories throughout Asia Pacific, Europe and the United States.
