Throng

Saturdays at 2pm on Stratos from September 11
Mondays at 10:30pm on Triangle from September 13

Watch seven teams including New Zealand battle it out in a round-robin format to win the 2010 Futsal Championship held in Suva, Fiji. This year’s event is the seventh edition of the exciting, five-a-side indoor football tournament and is the second to be held since it became an annual fixture. Other teams include: Fiji, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

OCEANIA FUTSAL 2010 CHAMPIONSHIPS

Stratos on Saturdays at 2:00pm from 11 September; Triangle on Mondays at 10:30pm from 13 September.

Watch seven teams, including New Zealand, battle it out in a round-robin format to win the 2010 Futsal Championship held in Suva, Fiji. This year’s event is the seventh edition of the exciting, five-a-side indoor football tournament and is the second to be held since it became an annual fixture. Other teams include Fiji, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

One of the most anticipated International Netball Series in years gets underway tomorrow with all of the Silver Ferns tests screening LIVE on TV ONE.

The Silver Ferns are scheduled to play Samoa, Jamaica and Australia over the next month in the lead up to October’s Commonwealth Games.

“We are anticipating a lot of interest in this International Series especially because the Silver Ferns, Australia and Jamaica are all such serious medal contenders so we’ve been able to extend the schedule to include three big games that will give viewers the chance to assess the form of our rivals in the lead-up to the Games”, says TVNZ’s General Manager of Sport Murray Needham.

TV ONE will be broadcasting all of the Silver Ferns games LIVE as well as delayed play of the series between the Australian Diamonds and the Jamaican Sunshine Girls.

The commentary team at ESPN have been talking up the last minute draw by New Zealand against Slovakia at the World Cup today and have been praising the achievement of a small nation where Rugby is the number one game.

They have repeatedly re-screened the Vittek's Slovakian goal and lamented what they perceived as coming from an offside position.

To top things off, they screened an adorable photo of a kiwi chick while one of the commentators reminisced about coming to New Zealand and trying to find one on a night walk.

It certainly appears as though Winston Reid's final minute goal has won over more than just the hearts and support of his fellow countrymen.

Go the All Whites!  Bring on Italy!@

ONE News cameraman Tony George has had his hotel room burgled in South Africa and over $100,000 worth of television recording, editing and transmission equipment stolen.

Tony George and reporter Donna-Marie Lever were staying at a FIFA sanctioned hotel in Rustenburg near the venue where the All Whites are due to play their first World Cup game.

The burglar/burglars jemmied the Wellington based cameraman’s hotel room door and cleaned out all of the gear inside including Tony’s clothes and passport.

Tony and Donna-Marie were having dinner in the hotel’s dining room at the time of the break-in.

The equipment they took included a TV camera, sound and lighting equipment, a laptop and a BGAN which is a state-of-the-art satellite transmission device.

“We’re just very grateful Tony and Donna-Marie are safe and well, it’s a very timely and sobering reminder of how vigilant all kiwis travelling to South Africa for the FIFA World Cup need to be”, said ONE News Editor, Paul Patrick.

“Donna-Marie will still be filing reports for ONE News due to the generosity of AP in South Africa, the news agency has helped them out with broadcast equipment, transmission capability, transport and money until we can organise replacements, they have been amazing and we’re very grateful”.

Tony & Donna-Marie are speaking to police at the moment.

TVNZ will provide the most comprehensive multi-platform coverage of an event in its history when it rolls out its content and broadcast schedule for this year’s FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

22 LIVE games will be broadcast across TV ONE and TVNZ 7 during the tournament including all of the All Whites games, six of 8 second round matches, all of the quarter and semi finals, 3rd v 4th play-off and the FIFA World Cup Final.

NZ vs Slovakia, NZ vs Italy, NZ vs Paraguay will be broadcast LIVE and free-to-air on TV ONE with a streamed simulcast on tvnz.co.nz.  Each game will replay the same day in full on TVNZ 7.

The best action from every single game will be included in a comprehensive highlights package to air on both channels every day of play.  The highlights will screen on TV ONE in the lead-up to ONE News with a repeat at 11pm.  TVNZ 7 will broadcast them at 6:10pm.