{"id":21556,"date":"2011-02-16T09:42:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T17:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21556"},"modified":"2011-02-16T09:49:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T17:49:05","slug":"quiksilver-pros-go-live-on-free-tv-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21556","title":{"rendered":"Quiksilver Pros Go Live On Free TV In Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/106890-fanning.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/106890-fanning.jpg','popup','width=316,height=237,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/106890-fanning-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"106890-Fanning\" \/><\/a>All three <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quiksilverpro.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quiksilver Pro<\/a><\/strong> events on the ASP 2011 Tour will be broadcast live on free TV in Australia thanks to a deal struck by Australia&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/onehd.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">One HD<\/a><\/strong> and the company, according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/sport\/surfers-strike-monumental-tv-deal-with-one-hd\/story-fn6atwd0-1226007106954\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Surfing Australia CEO <strong>Andrew Stark<\/strong> said the deal was \u201cmonumental\u201d. \u201cAs far as sport in Australia is concerned, you absolutely need free-to-air TV,\u201d he told The Australian. \u201cYou see the success of netball since they\u2019ve been on free-to-air, and the massive success of V8 Supercars. . . \u201cOur vision is to become mainstream, and this deal is part of that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kind of funny that a broadcast network would step up now that all the events are streamed live on the Internet, but we guess every little bit helps. You hear that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a><\/strong>? Maybe Quik can <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/15\/sports\/15espn.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;sponsor&#8221; some of your executives<\/a><\/strong> and then get a similar deal rolling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/sport\/surfers-strike-monumental-tv-deal-with-one-hd\/story-fn6atwd0-1226007106954\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All three Quiksilver Pro events on the ASP 2011 Tour will be broadcast live on free TV in Australia thanks to a deal struck by Australia&#8217;s One HD and the company, according to a story in The Australian. Surfing Australia CEO Andrew Stark said the deal was \u201cmonumental\u201d. \u201cAs far as sport in Australia is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21556"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21559,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21556\/revisions\/21559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}