{"id":24302,"date":"2011-07-12T16:55:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T23:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=24302"},"modified":"2011-07-12T16:55:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T23:55:54","slug":"2011-us-open-of-surfing-live-on-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=24302","title":{"rendered":"2011 US Open Of Surfing Live On Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Usopensurf<\/a>Proving it’s not all MMA and rally car driving at FUEL TV<\/a><\/strong> these days, the action cable network announced today that they will run live coverage of the surf, skate, and BMX finals from the NIke US Open of Surfing<\/a><\/strong> on Sunday August 7, 2011 beginning at 1:30 PM PST.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 2011 Nike US Open of Surfing is surfing\u2019s biggest and most-watched event,\u201d says Scott Paridon, FUEL TV\u2019s VP of Production and Development. \u201cIt\u2019s an honor to be the primary television partner and provide astonishing coverage of the various competitions throughout the entire weekend.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If we had cable TV we’d be looking forward to being astonished. Follow the jump for more details.FUEL TV TELECASTS THE 2011 NIKE US OPEN OF SURFING
\nLive shows cover surf, skate, and BMX contests and more.<\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES, CA – FUEL TV, (www.fuel.tv) Fox Sports Media Group\u2019s dynamic entertainment and sports network for young males, announces extensive television coverage of the 2011 Nike US Open of Surfing (USOS). The deal includes three and a half hours live coverage of the surf, skate, and BMX finals on Sunday, August 7, starting at 4:30PM ET\/1:30PM PT; plus two live, half-hour \u201cRe-Open\u201d highlight programs on Friday, August 5 and Saturday, August 6 at 8:00PM ET\/5:00PM PT; three \u201cThe Daily Habit\u201d shows shot on location in Huntington Beach, and exclusive \u201cFUEL TV Download\u201d news breaks covering each day\u2019s events.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 2011 Nike US Open of Surfing is surfing\u2019s biggest and most-watched event,\u201d says Scott Paridon, FUEL TV\u2019s VP of Production and Development. \u201cIt\u2019s an honor to be the primary television partner and provide astonishing coverage of the various competitions throughout the entire weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Nike US Open of Surfing has found an incredible television partner with FUEL TV,\u201d said James Leitz, Senior Vice President, IMG, the company who owns the event. \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to have the network broadcasting the finals live from Huntington Beach, taking this amazing event to the masses across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

FUEL TV\u2019s daily variety show \u201cThe Daily Habit\u201d plans to dedicate an entire week to the Nike US Open of Surfing Monday, August 1 through Friday, August 5, culminating with shows filmed from the beachfront contest venue Wednesday, August 3 through Friday, August 5. Guests for the show include top Nike, Hurley, and Converse athletes, other action sports royalty and surfing legends and notable musical talent providing insight and reflection of the USOS.<\/p>\n

In addition, the \u201cFUEL TV Download,\u201d the network\u2019s daily news breaks, will recap each day\u2019s activities and events from Thursday, August 4 through Sunday, August 7.<\/p>\n

The Nike US Open of Surfing draws in more than 500,000 people a year to Huntington Beach, California to watch the top surfers in the world compete for more than $100,000 top prize. In addition, other events on the beach include skateboarding\u2019s Converse Coastal Carnage, the Nike 6.0 BMX Pro, the Walk the Walk 2011 National Championship, presented by Hurley, Nike 6.0, Skullcandy and Invisalign Teen, showcasing the ultimate youth fashion, and a concert series featuring headlining sets by MGMT, Jimmy Eat World and The Sounds. Owned and produced by IMG, with creative and technical supervision from FUEL TV, the competition will feature the best of surf, skate, BMX, music, fashion, and art.<\/p>\n

For more information, please go to: http:\/\/www.fuel.tv\/usopenofsurfing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proving it’s not all MMA and rally car driving at FUEL TV these days, the action cable network announced today that they will run live coverage of the surf, skate, and BMX finals from the NIke US Open of Surfing on Sunday August 7, 2011 beginning at 1:30 PM PST. \u201cThe 2011 Nike US Open […]<\/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":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24302"}],"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=24302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24303,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24302\/revisions\/24303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}