The (ASP) and FUEL TV have signed a three-year deal securing exclusive USA and select international rights to televise the ASP’s Foster’s Men’s World Tour and the Women’s ASP World Championship Tour, it was announced by Brodie Carr, ASP CEO, ASP President Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew and FUEL TV Senior Vice President and Assistant General Manager CJ Olivares.
According to its Editor, Peter Dickson “Longbreak is directed to the 'cash rich yet time poor ' generation of longboard devotees who 25 years ago would have driven to their favourite surf spot in a beat up old VW but now are transported by expensive 4 wheel drives and fly with a quiver of the finest Longboards to exotic surf breaks around the world” Longbreak has 4 issues released a year, focusing on: An exotic location, a good longboard surfing break, plus quality accommodation. Longbreaks editorial format will feature 2 overseas locations and one Australian location plus a personality profile, product review, and a wine and food column. Longbreak is produced in Perth, published by Cambridge Media and distributed Australia wide by Gordon and Gotch.
Surfing Magazine (USA) declares International Surfing Day
Former professional surfer Stuart Bedford Brown is "carving it up" with a television show he has just sold in the United States and Japan. "To make three series and sell them overseas is a dream come true for me," said Bedford Brown, 34, who produce Foxtel surf show, Ra, with former world- champion surfer Barton Lynch. "Ra (named after the sun god) is a magazine- style show and includes surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, longboarding and body boarding." The surfing duo first took their project to Network Ten three years ago but, after the first series, it was picked up by Foxtel and aired on Fox 8. It has a growing audience overseas and has just been sold to a cable network in the US. It can also be seen in Japan, France, England, Ireland, Mexico and the Middle East. Bedford Brown and Lynch are also finalising a Ra clothing range.
MTV and Billabong Ride the Perfect Wave to a Multi-Year International Partnership
Move over B1 and B2, the sun-kissed grommet is the latest antipodean character to storm the international TV market. The ABC's new teen drama series Blue Water High was launched internationally at MIPTV, the TV marketplace in Cannes, this month and has already been snapped up by Belgium, South Africa, France, New Zealand and Germany, proving a great result for surf companies who supplied product for placement in the series. According to the ABC's head of children's television, Claire Henderson, "This is not social realism but it is intelligent entertainment and the cast is real, believable," Henderson says. "It is about a bunch of kids thrown together in a fairly idyllic situation. Who wouldn't want to be on a beach in Australia in a surfing school for a year? They have problems, tensions, relationships, but compared to a kid growing up in Iraq or a bitterly cold city in Europe ,it's paradise!"
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