2011 Foxtel Cup [SEP] sport
Foxtel Cup


Cup champions when they defeated Claremont by 21 points in the 2011 Grand Final. Claremont went one better the following year to become 2012 Foxtel Cup Champions defeating Werribee by 44 points. West Adelaide defeated East Fremantle by four points in the 2013 Grand Final. Williamstown won its second Foxtel Cup championship in 2014 by beating West Perth by 63 points. For the inaugural Foxtel Cup in 2011, the AFL invited the highest three ranked teams from the South Australian National Football League, the Victorian Football League and the West Australian Football League;
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Foxtel Cup


The Leagues Championship Cup, officially branded under the sponsor's name as the Foxtel Cup, was an annual Australian rules football club knockout cup competition involving clubs from the various state league competitions from around Australia. The tournament was organised by the Australian Football League (AFL), and was held annually between 2011 and 2014. The competition was first held in 2011, featuring sixteen teams from around the country who qualified based on their finishing positions in their previous state league season. In 2011 and 2012, matches were played mostly as
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Foxtel


Foxtel (co-owned by News Corp Australia and Telstra). News Corp owns a 65 percent stake in the combined entity, with Telstra owning 35 percent. The combining of the two businesses places emphasis on live-streaming sports and entertainment. Foxtel grew rapidly in 2007, with most of Foxtel's highest-ever rating events being broadcast that year, including the 2007 AFC Asian Cup quarter-final between Australia and Japan, which drew an average of 419,000 viewers, an Australian pay television record at that time. This
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2011 Foxtel Cup


The 2011 Foxtel Cup was the inaugural season of the Australian rules football club knockout cup competition involving clubs from the various state league competitions from around Australia. The first year of the competition also included the AFL's newest expansion side Greater Western Sydney Giants. Its purpose was to support and promote the second-tier Australian rules football competitions and to provide another way of developing the lower-tier AFL players. It was originally designed to be a one-off, but due to a significant amount of public interest the AFL said
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Foxtel


ratings record has since been eclipsed by the 2011 Rugby World Cup on Fox Sports 1 averaging around 500,000 viewers, which was smashed by the 2012 London Olympics Coverage, broadcast on 8 dedicated channels in both HD and SD formats, which saw an average of 946,432 viewers tuning in on the opening weekend, with around 600,000 to 700,000 viewers nightly thereafter. As of 2012, Fox Sports channels, particularly Fox Footy, average between 90,000 and 300,000 + viewers for NRL/AFL matches throughout the week. The highest-rated light entertainment
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Fox Sports (Australia)


Fox Sports is an Australian group of sports channels, which is owned by Foxtel. Its main competitors are ESPN and beIN Sports, both available as part of a Foxtel subscription. Fox Sports in Australia differs from other Fox Sports-branded channels in the United States and elsewhere around the world in that it is not owned by Fox Corporation, but by Foxtel. Both companies nonetheless remain under the control of the Murdoch family, as Foxtel is majority-owned by the Murdoch-controlled News Corp Australia. Fox Sports started life
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2011 Foxtel Cup


the competition would continue for at least the next five years. The competition began on 26 March 2011 and ran through to August. Matches were played as curtain-raisers to AFL Saturday night games and were screened on Fox Sports in a late-afternoon slot between afternoon and night AFL matches. $40,000 of prize money was awarded to eventual winners, Williamstown Football Club. The AFL originally invited the three highest ranked teams from the South Australian National Football League, the Victorian Football League and the West Australian Football League; the
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Fox Footy Channel


live games a week and not on the terms we have sought." The channel ended after a replay of the 2006 AFL Grand Final at 4.00am. Seven and Ten later came to terms with Foxtel and four games per round will be shown on pay-TV through the Fox Sports channels. It was announced on 28 April 2011 that the channel will be revived for the 2012 AFL season. The channel returned exclusively on Foxtel and its broadcasting partners, under the proposed new name of "Fox Sports AFL", which was
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Seven Sport


increase on the Nine/Ten/Foxtel 2002-2006 joint broadcast venture. Under the deal, Seven and Ten alternated the Brownlow Medal ceremonies and the AFL Grand Final; Seven televised the Friday night and Sunday afternoon Premiership season matches, while Ten televised the two Saturday matches and Foxtel televising the rest. In 2011, it was announced that Seven and Foxtel would share the football broadcast rights from 2012–2016, bringing Ten's 10-year run to an end. Under the new deal, Seven would televise four games per week, and
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Foxtel


channels. It also provided Foxtel's movie service, known as Foxtel On Demand, to non-subscribers for the first time on a pay-per-view basis. Further linear channels were added in April 2011 with the addition of 7 Telstra BigPond channels. In June 2011, Foxtel launched an over-the-top service on Telstra's IPTV set top box called Foxtel on T-Box carrying the same services as the Foxtel on Xbox service. Also as of June 2011, Foxtel's subscribers numbered just over 1.65
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2012 Foxtel Cup


on 31 March 2012 and concluded with the grand final on 2 August 2012. Matches are played as curtain-raisers to Saturday AFL games or as stand-alone matches, with all games to be screened on Fox Sports. Prize-money was increased by about 20 per cent from the 2011 competition, with A$60,000 to be awarded to the winners. The AFL invited three teams from the South Australian National Football League, the Victorian Football League and the West Australian Football League; two teams from the Tasmanian Football League;
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Foxtel


News Business HD beginning on 19 January 2016. Foxtel Arts HD began broadcasting in March 2016. On 1 April 2016, Sky Thoroughbred Central HD launched. Sky News Election Channel HD launched on 1 May 2016. Foxtel added another high definition movie channel with More Movies HD launching on 1 July 2016. In response to Optus Sports winning the rights to the English Premier League, Foxtel launched six new high definition sports channels on 15 May 2016. These included beIN Sports 1 HD, beIN Sports 2 HD, beIN Sports 3 HD
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Fox Footy


the Australian Football League (AFL). It was announced on 28 April 2011 that the channel would be revived for the 2012 AFL season. The channel returned exclusively on Foxtel and its broadcasting partners, under the proposed new name of "Fox Sports AFL", which was later changed back to its original name "Fox Footy". The channel relaunched at 5:00 pm AEDT on Friday 17 February 2012 with the first NAB Cup round-robin match between Hawthorn, Richmond and North Melbourne. Fox Footy has live broadcast rights to
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Speed (TV network)


cost changes. On February 19, 2015, Fox announced that the international feed of Speed would be re-branded as Fox Sports Racing, and announced that Rogers had reached a deal to add the rebranded network back to its lineup. Speed launched in Australia on November 1, 2010 on Foxtel in both standard and high definition. After months of negotiations and controversy, on March 25, 2011, Speed and Speed HD launched on subscription the television provider Austar. Among other racing events, the Australian network airs NASCAR Sprint Cup
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to access the Foxtel platform for their service – however Foxtel were hesitant to accede to the request, with one exception being the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where C7 offered two extra channels dedicated to Olympics coverage. In 2000, Seven and C7 Sport lost the AFL rights to a Nine/Ten and Foxtel-based consortium leaving C7 with only the Olympics and 6 Nations Rugby rights of major substance. In March 2002, the commencement of the new AFL broadcasting deal with Foxtel led Optus and Austar to drop C7 Sport from their services
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Seven Sport


and Ten entered a joint rights deal with pay TV provider Foxtel to ensure that all eight matches of each round were televised, starting in 2002 and concluding in 2006. That brought Seven's 45-year run as VFL/AFL football broadcaster to an end. On 5 January 2006, Seven regained the rights to the Australian Football League in the following broadcast deal, covering the period between 2007 and 2011 inclusive, in a joint contract with Ten and Foxtel. The cost of the deal was A$780 million, an A$280 million
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2014 Foxtel Cup


The 2014 Foxtel Cup was the fourth and final season of the Australian rules football knock-out competition involving clubs from the various state league competitions from around Australia. The Cup's purpose is to support and promote the second-tier Australian rules football competitions and to provide another way of developing lower-tier Australian Football League (AFL) players. The format of the competition was as follows: The top two sides from Western Australia (East Perth and West Perth) joined Norwood and reigning Foxtel Cup champion West Adelaide from South
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Australia, Box Hill Hawks and Williamstown from Victoria, and Tasmanian representative Western Storm, as participants in the 2014 Foxtel Cup. North East Australian Football League qualifiers, Aspley and Belconnen, competed against each other in Round 1 of the 2014 NEAFL competition as a pre-qualifying round, with Aspley winning through to play Williamstown in round 1 of the Foxtel Cup. The selection of Western Storm, a club which was competing in the Tasmanian Football League for the first time in 2014, as Tasmania's representative was controversial, but
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Fox Footy Channel


any state football leagues such as SANFL, WAFL or VFL. The future of the channel was placed in doubt after the Seven Network and Network Ten were awarded the AFL rights from 2007 to 2011. On 23 August 2006, Foxtel announced the Fox Footy Channel would cease broadcasting at the conclusion of the current AFL season and be replaced with Fox Sports 3. Foxtel CEO Kim Williams stated "It's not financially viable to continue operating a 24-hour-a-day (Australian rules) football channel when we can only get three
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2014 Foxtel Cup


came as a result of the defending Tasmanian Football League premiers, South Launceston, leaving the league. The majority of South Launceston's senior list shifted to Western Storm, so AFL Tasmania decided that the new club was a sufficiently close representation of the defending premiers to allow it to compete in the Foxtel Cup, rather than substituting the 2013 runners-up Burnie. The competition began in March 2014 and concluded with Williamstown winning their second Foxtel Cup championship by defeating West Perth in the Grand Final at Simonds Stadium on 22 July 2014
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Foxtel


On 25 February 2011, Foxtel released an Android application which is available as a free app from Google Play. The app is optimised for both Android smartphones and tablets. The Foxtel magazine contains daily listings for most channels offered on the Foxtel platform. Foxtel subscribers can opt-in and subscribe to the Foxtel magazine for a monthly fee. Legacy Foxtel Platinum subscribers who opted in for the magazine prior to the Platinum magazine unbundling period in mid-2010, currently still continue to get the magazine free of charge. Foxtel's magazine is Australia
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BeIN Sports


League (2015-2018), EFL Cup, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, Bundesliga, MLS, Copa Libertadores and RBS Six Nations. On 14 March 2016, beIN Sports Australia expanded from one to three channels, all in HD, and as of 15 May 2016 has been made available to all Foxtel sport pack subscribers, rather than the original add-on cost for a single SD channel. Fetch subscribers still only have access to beIN Sports 1, which is an add-on cost each month
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Greater Western Sydney Giants


for the Giants in 2012. McDonald and Power took on roles as playing Assistant Coaches. Greater Western Sydney also recruited Israel Folau, a former professional rugby league footballer, from the Brisbane Broncos. Before entering the AFL, the club played in the TAC Cup in 2010 and North East Australian Football League in 2011, as well as the 2011 and 2012 AFL pre-season tournaments, and the 2011 Foxtel Cup. The club played its first game in the Australian Football League on 24 March 2012 at ANZ Stadium in the inaugural
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East Perth Football Club


10 teams. The competition is sponsored by Foxtel and is known as Foxtel Cup. East Perth have qualified for the tournament twice. In the competitions first year, 2011, the Royals defeated North Ballarat and NT Thunder to reach the semi final losing to eventual premiers Williamstown. The Royals also gained qualification for the 2014 season. East Perth were big 50 point winners over Norwood in the quarter final but once again fell in the semi final to VFL side Williamstown who once again went on to win the title. The East Perth
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Fox Sports (Australia)


a clash involving its main 3 channels. On Saturday 17 March 2007, for example, Fox Sports broadcast a match from the 2007 Cricket World Cup (Ireland v Pakistan) live on 518, as it was committed to football, rugby union and another cricket match on its main 3 channels. In 2010 Fox Sports coverage of National Rugby League games held 73 out of the top 100 programs of any type aired Foxtel. In February 2012, the Premier Media Group changed its name to Fox Sports Pty Limited. On 5 March
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Foxtel


Masterpiece; More; Thriller; Greats. Docos – History; Nat Geo Wild; Discovery Turbo; Nat Geo People; Animal Planet; Discovery Science; Crime + Investigation; BBC Knowledge. The Foxtel Go also offers an on demand service for most channels listed above including sports channels. Foxtel Now (Formerly Foxtel Play) is an internet television alternative to the traditional Foxtel subscription, offering customers a no lock in contract subscription starting at $10. The service offers over 50 live channels and hundreds of hours of video on-
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Foxtel


Foxtel magazine, to all legacy Platinum customers who decided not to opt-in during the opt-in period in early 2010. As of February 2016, the magazine no longer lists the sports channels. In August 2018, Foxtel launched a streaming VOD (video on demand) movie service called FoxFlicks. This service is available to subscribers who have either the movie pack or platinum pack with the new iQ4 set-top-box. Foxtel launched its digital service (Foxtel Digital) in March 2004. The service is loosely
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BeIN Sports (Australian TV channel)


as part of the sports pack, where previously the single channel was an add-on at an additional cost. beIN Sports football rights include: beIN Sports rights include: beIN Sports rights include: beIN Sports Motorsports rights include: beIN Sports Australia and New Zealand channels are available on all the major pay-TV home platforms in Australia: Foxtel and Fetch TV and New Zealand Sky. On 31 March 2016 it was announced that beIN Sports would be available as part of the Foxtel sports package at no extra cost from 15
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Foxtel


' local telephony services; Foxtel was the content arm of Telstra's defence strategy, while Telstra's multimedia broadband network was originally the sole delivery system. In 2002, Foxtel and Optus Television agreed to a content-sharing arrangement. Programming competition between the two companies has now dissipated. Prior to its acquisition by Foxtel in 2011, Austar, a regional pay television operator, also carried most Foxtel programming. , Foxtel is Australia's largest pay television operator, with programming available to over 70% of Australian homes, and delivered
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Foxtel


set-top box or later. These channels include ABC HD, SBS HD, SBS Viceland HD, 7HD, 9HD and 10 HD. Foxtel's high definition channels are broadcast in H.264 in both 720p and 1080i resolutions. As of 2011, almost a third of Foxtel's customers were receiving the HD service. Foxtel on Demand was a service offered by Foxtel to iQ subscribers that allowed people to watch selected shows and movies whenever they wanted. Foxtel on Demand was launched on 8 February 2007, with a variety of programmes
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Emma Freedman


Grill Team". In March 2016, Freedman rejoined the Nine Network to host the "Wide World of Sports". Freedman's ballet-themed coming of age novel, "Turning Pointes", was published by Harper Collins in 2016. In March 2017, Freedman was appointed host of "Sports Sunday" on the Nine Network. In March 2018, Freedman joined the team of presenters on Foxtel's Fox League Channel. Freedman is the daughter of five-time Melbourne Cup winning thoroughbred horse trainer Lee Freedman. Emma is
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2011 WAFL season


The 2011 WAFL season was the 127th season of the West Australian Football League and its various incarnations. The season opened on 19 March, with defeating by 15 points at Steel Blue Oval, and concluded with the 2011 WAFL Grand Final, with defeating by 56 points. The 2011 Sandover Medal was won by Luke Blackwell of . The top three teams – Claremont, Subiaco and – qualified for the 2012 Foxtel Cup. The WAFL implemented two rule changes for the 2011 season, to conform with similar rules changes in the Australian Football
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BeIN Sports (Australian TV channel)


Union, tennis and European handball. beIN Sports Australia and New Zealand's broadcast rights include Football League Cup, Football League Championship, Ligue 1, German Bundesliga, La Liga, Italian Serie A (AUS only), SPFL, RBS 6 Nations, Major League Soccer and WTA. On 14 May 2016, beIN Sports Australia expanded from one to three channels, with all available in HD. Previously, only one channel was available and only in SD. For Foxtel customers, all three channels became available at no additional cost
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Optus Television


offering channels from Sportsvision, (later C7 Sport) and ESPN. During the Super League/ARL war, the Optus sports channels had the rights to the ARL competition and the Super League rights were held by Fox Sports. Seven bought Sportsvision, which became Optus and Austar exclusive C7 Sport and progressively lost sporting rights to Fox Sports. During that time Foxtel granted Optus an "NRL Channel", screening all of the NRL matches that had previously been shown exclusively on the Foxtel platform. C7 Sport for some time had attempted
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10 Sport


million after all three major commercial networks pulled out of bidding on rights to both the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games due to cost concerns. The Nine Network had lost $22 million on its joint coverage of the 2012 Games with Foxtel, and the Seven Network's bid was rejected for being lower than what Nine/Foxtel had previously paid. Network 10, in joint partnership with subscription television provider Foxtel, had broadcast rights for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. It also broadcast the 1994 and 2014 games. "10 Sport" holds
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Foxtel


would be undergoing a major rebrand – the first in its 22-year history – as part of a move to convey an image that "Foxtel is for everyone". The former logo (inspired from the American Fox network's 1996–present logo), described by the company as "quite aggressive, quite arrogant, quite elitist", would be replaced with an all lowercase logo, and its Foxtel Play service would rebranded to Foxtel Now. On 6 March 2018, News Corp Australia announced a merger of Fox Sports (Australia) with
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Rockdale City Suns FC


then FFA Cup holders and Minor Premiers from the previous A-League season) in the Round of 32. Rockdale utilised enhanced lighting to be able to play at Ilinden Sports Centre. The match was broadcast live on Foxtel and a crowd of 4,489 packed into the Ilinden Sports Centre. Although Rockdale scored the first goal, Sydney FC won 4-2 in the end. The primary club colours of Rockdale Ilinden are red and black with a secondary, less-used colour of white. The Rockdale Ilinden badge has evolved over
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C7 Sport


the Super League war in 1997, C7 no longer had exclusive rights to NRL games, having to share them with Fox, and had totally lost the rights to the FA Premier League. C7 began negotiations with Foxtel in order to make the channels available to a wider audience, but Foxtel refused to carry them. Foxtel claimed that C7 was an inferior service, for which Seven wanted an exorbitant price. C7 won two Federal Court actions backing their position, but Foxtel claims it acted in accordance with the Court's rulings.
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Foxtel


Operating Systems, leaving many users unable to install the client. Foxtel Download was discontinued in September 2012, with the service no longer being available to subscribers. Launched in late 2006 to coincide with Telstra's NextG 3G Mobile phone network, Mobile Foxtel (previously Foxtel By Mobile) offers 33 standard channels of programming for a small subscription fee, optimised for mobile devices. At present the channels available are: Sky News National, Your Money, CNN, Fox Sports News, Fox8, The Comedy Channel, MTV, E
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Fox Sports (Australia)


, to coincide with the new Super 12 rugby union competition and the proposed launch of the Super League. In 1997 a secondary channel was launched on Foxtel to carry broadcasts of the new Super League competition. Fox Sports and its chief competitor, Sports Australia shared the rights to NRL broadcasts as a result of the legal settlement in the Super League war. The channel on Foxtel was later relaunched as "Fox Sports Two", at first broadcasting from Friday through Monday each week, and later expanding to a full 24-hour, 7-day
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2012 Foxtel Cup


The 2012 Foxtel Cup was the second season of Australian rules football knock-out cup competition involving clubs from the various state league competitions from around Australia. The cup's purpose is to support and promote the second-tier Australian rules football competitions and to provide another way of developing lower-tier Australian Football League (AFL) players. It was originally designed to be a one-off, but due to a significant amount of public interest the AFL said the competition would continue through to at least 2016. The competition began
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2013 Foxtel Cup


The 2013 Foxtel Cup was the third season of the Australian rules football knock-out cup competition involving clubs from the various state league competitions from around Australia. The Cup's purpose is to support and promote the second-tier Australian rules football competitions and to provide another way of developing lower-tier Australian Football League (AFL) players. All matches, as in previous years, were broadcast by Fox Footy. The format of the competition saw four significant changes from the first two years of the competition: For the first
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2011 Foxtel Cup


2010 if its top three clubs refused to participate. After the top five SANFL clubs released a joint statement on 15 December 2010 declining the invitation to participate in the Cup competition, citing lack of prize money, sponsorship conflicts, salary cap implications, schedule concerns and removing the focus from their SANFL premiership ambitions, their places were taken up by fellow SANFL clubs West Adelaide, North Adelaide and Port Adelaide Magpies. The AFL gave the Cup competition the go ahead on 17 December 2010 with the fixture released publicly. The official name
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Clancy Rudeforth


League (SANFL). Rudeforth was named captain of Claremont in 2009. In September 2010, Rudeforth had his jaw broken after an incident with defender Luke Pratt, who was suspended for three games for the incident. In 2011, Rudeforth played his 150th game for Claremont, against Port Adelaide in the Foxtel Cup. He played his 150th WAFL game the week after, against . He captained the club to the 2011 premiership, defeating Subiaco by 56 points in the 2011 Grand Final, announcing his retirement after the game. Rudeforth
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Brendan Moar


Brendan Moar is an Australian television host, best known for hosting several lifestyle genre shows on Foxtel, and being the host on the Foxtel program "Dry Spell Gardening". Moar began hosting Foxtel's "Dry Spell Gardening" in 2008. He was also the chief landscaper designer of the show. It aired on the Lifestyle Channel. He also hosted several other lifestyle programs on Foxtel, including "By Design", "Home", "Moar Gardening" and "Postcards from Home". In 2011, he made
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Foxtel


the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). On 11 July 2011, Austar announced that "it had entered into definitive transaction agreements with Liberty Global, Inc. (LGI) and Foxtel Management Pty Limited (Foxtel) under which Foxtel will acquire Austar by a series of transactions including a scheme of arrangement (Scheme)." This takeover involved a minority shareholder approval on 30 March 2012, the approval of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on 10 April 2012, and has had approval from a Second Court
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Foxtel


, 75 percent of Foxtel subscribers are using an iQ series unit, 40 percent are using Multi-Room, and 40% are using iQ2 (and therefore, HD). On 2 November 2011, Foxtel started notifying subscribers of the option to upgrade (at an additional one-off $200 upgrade fee) to the new iQ2 1TB model with 4 times the recording capacity. Foxtel's third generation iQ model, iQ3, was first referenced by CEO Richard Freudenstein in March 2012, and was released to customers on
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Wendell Sailor


out of eight sporting competitors. In 2011, he became the co-host of Channel Seven's "Australia's Greatest Athlete", alongside Mark Baretta, and was a panelist on Foxtel's NRL on FOX. In 2011 Sailor participated in "The Celebrity Apprentice Australia." In 2012, Sailor appeared Monday and Friday mornings on Channel Ten "Breakfast" to preview and review all the NRL action. On 11 June 2015, Sailor appeared on an episode of The NRL Footy Show, where he competed in an 'Iron
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Foxtel


are no longer available to new customers. Foxtel's second generation iQ, the Foxtel iQ2 was launched alongside the Foxtel HD+ service in mid-2008. Equipped with a 320GB HDD, iQ2 is capable of recording 30 hours of HD and 90 hours of SD content and offers, double that of the original iQ. The unit also offers HDMI connectivity. The iQ2 is equipped with four tuners, allowing users to record two programs at once while watching a third live. The fourth tuner is reserved for on demand content. As of 2011
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Austar


, when all Austar branding was replaced with the current Foxtel moniker. Austar was involved with providing services to Sega Channel in Australia in partnership with Namco Bandai Partners, a joint venture between Sega and Ozisoft. On 11 July 2011, Austar announced that "it had entered into definitive transaction agreements with Liberty Global, Inc. (LGI) and Foxtel Management Pty Limited (Foxtel) under which Foxtel will acquire AUSTAR by a series of transactions including a scheme of arrangement (Scheme)." This takeover involved a minority shareholder approval on
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Foxtel Cup


the top two teams from the Queensland Australian Football League; and the top team from AFL Sydney and the Tasmanian Football League – based on those leagues' 2010 seasons. The Greater Western Sydney Giants (which was playing in the NEAFL in 2011 as preparation for entering the Australian Football League in 2012), and the Northern Territory Football Club received special invitations. However, despite the SANFL signing on to be part of the Cup competition, its top three clubs – Central District, Norwood and Woodville-West Torrens – all rejected
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Dermott Brereton


on Channel 9's "Getaway", a tourism and travel TV show which continued until 2011. In 2011, he ended his twenty-year association with the Nine Network and announced he would be joining Foxtel for the 2012 season. From 2012 onwards, he has provided match commentary for Foxtel and hosted the "Fox League Teams" show on Thursday nights on Foxtel's new 24-hour AFL channel Fox Footy, which launched on 17 February 2012. He also starred in a minor role in the 2002 film "Trojan Warrior"
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Pay-per-view


broadcast live Monday at 7:55 pm on Tigo Max (K.O 20:10) and Thursday at 8:00 pm on Tigo Sports (K.O 20:15). In Uruguay, the Tenfield producer business and sports events organization have television exclusive rights for the main matches of Uruguayan soccer and basketball, which are broadcast on VTV Max and VTV Sports. Foxtel and Optus Vision introduced pay-per-view direct to home television in Australia in the mid-to-late 1990s. Foxtel had Event TV (until it transformed into its current form; Main
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Foxtel


by Fox Sports 505 & 506 respectively), SoHo (Replaced by Binge) and Channel [V] (Replaced by [V] Hits). HD multichannels that were replaced by other HD channels include 10 Bold (replaced by 10 HD, 10 Bold was reduced to SD) and 9Gem (replaced by 9HD, rebranded today as 9Gem and was reduced to SD). Channels completely discontinued include MusicCountry, The Soundtrack Channel, Movie Network (replaced by Foxtel Movies), Showtime Network (replaced by Foxtel Movies),
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Foxtel


AUD despite similar "HD" resolution broadcast channels already available on free-to-air television. HD+ launched with four channels; BBC HD, ESPN HD, Fox Sports HD and a timeshared documentary channel for Discovery HD World and National Geographic HD programming. Foxtel Box Office also began simulcasting in high definition. On 15 November 2009, another ten high definition channels were launched; Fox Sports 2 HD, Fox Sports 3 HD, Fox8 HD, Movie One HD, Showcase HD, Showtime Action HD, Showtime Premiere HD,
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Super W


number of players with existing connections to the club, or with arrangements for club sponsored work or study. All participants are required to be over the age of 17. All matches are televised live by affiliate partners Fox Sports. The official internet/mobile broadcast partner of the Super W is Foxtel Now and Foxtel Go part of Foxtel. The company hosts the league website as well as those of each of the eight participation clubs. The Super W has retained digital broadcast rights to matches in the league's inaugural season and will
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Foxtel Now


for $15 per month for either of the Drama or Entertainment packages. Sports and Movie packages would be available to subscribe as an addition to at least one starter package. As well as access to linear channels, the service would also make associated on-demand and catch up content available to subscribers. Amidst rumours of an impending rename of the service, Foxtel announced in May 2017 that it would be removing 19 channels across its various Foxtel Play packages. A re-allocation of resources towards more on-demand content,
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Foxtel Now


. The launch included a small controversy, as Foxtel had previously promised the box would ship with the Netflix app available. The Netflix logo was included on some promotional material, which was deleted. During the launch event, Foxtel hinted that it was Netflix who was slowing the process, not yet having certified the box. The following is a list of the subscription packages on offer and the respective channels included: Pop & Lifestyle (starter packs) Drama Sport Movies Additional channels included in every package Kids (only available via purchasing
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Foxtel Cup


curtain-raisers to AFL Saturday night games, or occasionally as a stand-alone game in the same timeslot; in 2013 and 2014, matches were mostly played as stand-alone games on Tuesday nights. In both cases, matches were televised on subscription television provider and competition naming rights sponsor Foxtel; and clubs played matches on or adjacent to bye weeks in their respective state league fixtures. Total annual prize money for the competition was about $250,000, with $40,000 going to the winner. Williamstown was the inaugural Foxtel
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Foxtel


suppliers from acquiring exclusive rights to specific sporting events such as cricket, golf, tennis and the football codes. Under the legislation pay TV licensees are prevented from bidding for major sporting events until a right is acquired by the ABC, SBS or a free-to-air commercial network. In 2009, the Minister for Communications announced a review of the legislation. In an Olympics year, the Australian anti-siphoning list runs to over 1300 events and is one of the longest in the world. Foxtel prevents users from using
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Optus Television


) to take part in a trial of the service. The ability to offer the service came about due to Optus offering a large number of channels to East Coast Television (now a part of Austar). After Optus axed the "VIP" Service, it also sold its share in the joint venture to Austar. In 2004, the roles reversed and Austar became the customer to Foxtel for satellite delivery. Until 2002, Optus did not offer the Fox Sports sporting channels on their service as Foxtel and Austar did, instead
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C7 Sport


Seven won the right to put its programming on Foxtel's analog cable system, including its set-top boxes. C7 still had the AFL and, crucially, had the rights to the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Two more channels ("C7 Olympic" and "C7 Games") were set up, which would carry non-stop Olympic programming during the Games; the channels being made available to Austar and Optus customers at additional cost. Foxtel and C7 negotiated access to Games content for Foxtel viewers. C7 was later forced
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Foxtel


million. In November 2014, Foxtel added 2 new SD channels, 9 new HD channels and rebranded 2 sports channels to satellite and cable subscribers. Foxtel defines a virtual channel order that groups channels by their content. General entertainment channels are from 100 to 149 which includes metropolitan/state-based localised advertising primary channels the Nine Network, ABC, SBS, the Seven Network and Network 10, with metropolitan/state-based localised advertising multichannels ABC Comedy/ABC Kids, 7TWO, 7mate, 9Go!, 10 Bold,
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Foxtel


TechTV, Fashion TV (replaced by FX/Fashion moved to Fetch TV), Ovation, KidsCo, History+2, Starpics (replaced by Foxtel Movies), Gamesworld Interactive Games and the Interactive Sports Selector. TV1 and SF ceased transmission at 11:59pm, 31 December 2013 after Foxtel chose not to renew their contracts as they wanted to bring as many channels in house as they did with their movie offerings. They were replaced by two new channels: TV Hits and Syfy. STUDIO ceased transmission at 11:59pm, 27 March 2015 after choosing
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Foxtel


its platform, although still today legislation prevents Foxtel and other pay TV businesses from earning more than 50% of their revenue from advertising. Sometimes, viewers are exposed to up to 5min worth of adverts for every 8 minutes of programming. Certain programming on select channels are broadcast commercial-free such as movies on their movie channels and selected games on Fox Sports but in-between each program Foxtel would then stream many ads giving a long time between the end of one movie and the start of the next. EOFYS (pronounced
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Australian Football League


was the biggest sport telecasting deal in Australian history at the time. After lengthy negotiations, Foxtel agreed to be a broadcast partner and now showed four live matches each week, although no longer on a dedicated AFL channel. Seven took back the Friday night match and only one game on Sunday, while Ten retained showing two matches on Saturdays. Foxtel showed two games on Saturday and two on Sunday, including a late afternoon or twilight game. The 2012-2017 rights were bought by Seven, Foxtel, and Telstra for $
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Foxtel Cup


their invitations to compete, citing lack of prize money, sponsorship conflicts, salary cap implications, schedule concerns and removing the focus from their SANFL premiership ambitions. Eventually, the SANFL positions in the competition were taken up by West Adelaide, North Adelaide and Port Adelaide Magpies, none of whom even reached the SANFL finals in 2010. In 2013 it was announced that the SANFL's top three teams of the 2012 season, Norwood, West Adelaide and North Adelaide, had committed to play in the Foxtel Cup in 2014. At
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Foxtel Cup


the time of the announcement midway through the 2013 SANFL season the three teams were again the top three on the SANFL premiership ladder, showing that among South Australian clubs, the Foxtel Cup was gaining recognition. In 2013 and 2014, the scale of the competition was reduced from sixteen teams to nine or ten. In those seasons, the WAFL, SANFL and VFL each contributed two teams to the competition, who entered the competition at the quarter-final stage; and the remaining teams came from the NEAFL and TFL, who
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2015 International V8 Supercars Championship


Super Sprint events. The season saw the commencement of a new television deal, with Foxtel and Network Ten taking over from the Seven Network. All races are being shown live on Foxtel's Fox Sports with six events – Adelaide, Townsville, Sandown, Bathurst, the Gold Coast and Sydney – also being televised live on Ten. Ten also broadcasts limited highlights of the other events. The television series "Inside Supercars" and "Supercars Life" were also launched by Fox Sports to accompany their coverage. Ten revived their motorsport
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Fox Cricket


Fox Cricket is an Australian subscription television channel dedicated to screening cricket (both domestic and international) matches and related programming. It is owned by Fox Sports Pty Limited and is available throughout Australia on Foxtel. The channel was launched on 17 September 2018. In April 2018, Fox Sports came to a six-year agreement with Cricket Australia that expanded their previous coverage of cricket on the Foxtel platform. This deal formed a part of Cricket Australia's six year overall coverage deal which also includes free to air coverage by Channel Seven
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2011 Foxtel Cup


top two teams from the Queensland Australian Football League; and the top team from AFL Sydney and the Tasmanian Football League. The Northern Territory Football Club and Greater Western Sydney Giants received special invitations. However, despite the SANFL on 9 December 2010 signing on to be part of the Cup competition, opposition to the proposal came from its top three clubs Central District, Norwood and Woodville-West Torrens. The three clubs were given until 14 December 2010 to reconsider with the SANFL willing to extend invitations to its next best teams from
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David Crawford (Australian footballer)


20 WAFL games and two Foxtel Cup games during the season, including Claremont's grand final victories over in the WAFL Grand Final and Werribee in the Foxtel Cup. During the 2013 season, Crawford won state representative honours with Western Australia, playing in a victory over Victoria. He played his 200th game for Claremont in the preliminary final defeat to , becoming only the eighth player to reach the landmark for the club. His form throughout the season was recognised when he was named in The West Australian's Team of the Year for
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Anti-siphoning laws in Australia


through the Australian Parliament. After the broadcasting deals were announced with Cricket Australia, Seven Network and Fox Cricket, Men’s ODIs and T20s will be live and exclusively broadcast on Foxtel. The most accurate and up to date anti-siphoning list is available on the comlaw website Generally, the following events are anti-siphoning events: Sporting events are added and removed from the list from time to time. For example, in 2017, the English FA Cup final, finals of the Wimbledon Championships and the US Open, international
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2018 Nigeria Federation Cup


Katsina United Plateau United 1-1 Enyimba Round 1 [Sep 28] (moved from Sep 24) Plateau United 0-1 Katsina United J. Atete 0-5 Enyimba Final Table: Round 1 [Sep 24] Enugu Rangers 2-1 El-Kanemi Warriors Sunshine Stars 1-1 Supreme Court Round 2 [Sep 26] Sunshine Stars 1-1 El-Kanemi Warriors Supreme Court n/p Enugu Rangers Round 3 [Sep 28] Enugu Rangers 0-0 Sunshine Stars El-Kaneni Warriors 1-0
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2018 Nigeria Federation Cup


Supreme Court Final Table: Round 1 [Sep 24] Kwara United 5-1 Abia Warriors Kano Pillars 3-2 Rivers United Round 2 [Sep 26] Kano Pillars 1-2 Abia Warriors Rivers United 0-1 Kwara United Round 3 [Sep 28] Kano Pillars 2-1 Kwara United Rivers United 0-1 Abia Warriors Final Table: Round 1 [Sep 24] Akwa United 1-0 Wikki Tourists Nasarawa United 0-0 Kogi United Round 2 [Sep 26] Kogi United 0-1 Akwa
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Austar


after that time, building up to a complete interface redesign for its set-top boxes in late 2011 or early 2012. Since the Foxtel acquisition, these plans have changed. The plan was originally to upgrade MyStar and phase it out in 2014, however in 2013 Foxtel decided to convert their IQHD units to satellite connections and made them available to "Austar" customers in November 2013. Foxtel had no plans to force current MyStar subscribers to replace their unit, if they don't wish, however they are offering upgrades to
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2012 Foxtel Cup


and five teams from the two conferences of the North East Australian Football League, including clubs from the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, the Northern Territory, and Queensland. , who had acceded to the AFL in 2012, were replaced by a second Tasmanian team. Claremont became the 2012 Foxtel Cup champions when they defeated Werribee by 44 points in the Grand Final at Patersons Stadium on 2 August 2012. Claremont forward Tom Lee won the Coles Medal as best afield with his six-goal display. ^ Although stand-
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2014 VFL season


. Williamstown won the competition, defeating WAFL team West Perth in the Grand Final. Features of the fixture included: Source: VFL season 2014 Results and Fixtures Report Click here for source The two highest ranked non-AFL exclusive teams from the 2013 season (premiers Box Hill and third placed Williamstown) were invited to compete in the Foxtel Cup knockout competition for 2014. Box Hill was eliminated in the first round of the tournament, and Williamstown recorded comfortable victories in all three fixtures, earning a second Foxtel Cup title in club
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American football in Australia


the year. There are currently 73 junior and senior teams playing gridiron in Australia. The national team has competed in the IFAF World Cup and other international competitions. American football has an increasing media profile in Australia. The National Football League is broadcast on both free-to-air television through 7mate and subscription television through the Fox Sports and ESPN channels available on Foxtel and Austar, including the Super Bowl live on the Seven Network. Due to interest in converts from Australian rules football and Rugby League, particularly Ben Graham,
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Ben Buckley


Australia. Led unsuccessful bid to bring FIFA World Cup to Australia. On 21 August 2012 it was announced he had stepped down from his position as Chief Executive Officer of Football Federation Australia. At the same time, it was announced he would be replaced by former Chief Executive Officer of the National Rugby League David Gallop Currently Buckley is the Executive Director in Foxtel, overseeing and managing sports contents within this Broadcast media company. On 20 October 2016, Buckley was voted in as the new chairman of the North Melbourne Football Club ,
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Jimeoin


that nationality thing but I've been watching the Socceroos in the football and when it comes to sport I really go for Australia. Well Ireland's shit at everything so what choice do I have?" In 2010 he completed a new series "" for The Comedy Channel on Foxtel and Austar. The series features Jimeoin travelling across sections of northern Australia, interspersed with stand-up routines recorded at towns visited along the way. During the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Jimeoin hosted Australian TV SBS's primetime comedy programme The Full
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Paraguay national rugby union team


place Sudamericano A 2010 Santiago de Chile, Chile 13 MAY 2010 Chile 42 - 6 Paraguay 16 MAY 2010 Paraguay 14 - 47 Uruguay 19 MAY 2010 Brazil 23 - 18 Paraguay 5th place Sudamericano A 2011 Misiones, Argentina 14 MAY 2011 Uruguay 102 - 6 Paraguay 17 MAY 2011 Chile 71 - 3 Paraguay 20 MAY 2011 Brasil 51 - 14 Paraguay 5th place Sudamericano B 2012 Valencia, Venezuela 09 SEP 2012 Paraguay 54 - 17 Colombia 12 SEP 2012 Paraguay 69 - 3 Peru 15 SEP 2012 Venezuela 8 - 73 Paraguay Champion Sudamericano B
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2011 League of Ireland Cup Final


The 2011 League of Ireland Cup Final also known as the 2011 EA Sports Cup Final was the final match of the 2011 League of Ireland Cup, the 38th season of the League of Ireland Cup, a football competition for the 27 teams from the Premier Division, First Division, A Championship and the Ulster Senior League. The match was contested by Cork City and Derry City, at Turners Cross in Cork on 24 September 2011. It was broadcast live on Setanta Sports. The final was played on 24 September 2011 at Cork
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Brett Johnson (Australian footballer)


He has twice finished second in the J. J. Liston Trophy (2006 and 2008), represented the VFL in interstate matches in 2007, 2008 and 2010 (in the last of which he was captain), was selected in the VFL team of the year in 2006, 2007 and 2008 (in the last of which he was captain), and won the Seagulls' Best and Fairest in 2008 and 2010. As captain, Johnson led the Seagulls to victory in the inaugural Foxtel Cup competition in 2011. He played a
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Kim Williams (media executive)


at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). In 1988 he was appointed Foundation Chairman of Film Finance Corporation Australia. In 1995, shortly after the last-minute failure of a deal for the ABC to provide two news channels to Rupert Murdoch's Foxtel, which Williams had spearheaded on behalf of the ABC, he left the ABC to accept Murdoch's invitation to head Fox Studios. In December 2001 he became Chief Executive of Foxtel. He remained until 2011 and was praised for reversing Foxtel's fortunes from a chronic loss-
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MTV Classic (Australia and New Zealand)


June 2011 on Sky Television. On 29 October 2013, MTV announced they had been working with Foxtel since early 2013 to offer more diversity on the Foxtel platform, as MTV Classic and MTV Hits fought for the same audience as Foxtel Networks channels MAX and [V] Hits respectively. The channel to replace MTV Classic is "MTV Dance", a channel dedicated to dance, hip hop, and RnB music from around the world - MTV's first channel to be dedicated to three different genres of music. Although MTV Classic
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2011 Scottish Conservative Party leadership election


to the UK Conservative Party. This prompts mixed reactions from senior party figures. 4 Sep – Ruth Davidson formally announces that she will stand in the contest. 5 Sep – Murdo Fraser launches his campaign in Edinburgh. 8 Sep – Ruth Davidson launches her campaign in Edinburgh. 11 Sep – Lord Forsyth, at one point a suggested leadership candidate, declares his backing for Ruth Davidson. 23 Sep – Nominations for leadership close. Margaret Mitchell confirms she will stand in the election. 2 Oct – David Mundell MP declares his backing
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Jared Daperis


the hit TV series "Bonanza". He also appeared in the Foxtel series "Small Time Gangster" alongside Gary Sweet. However, Daperis is best known for his leading role as the eponymous Squizzy Taylor, in "". Film work includes the lead role in the Australian feature "Playing For Charlie", composed by Academy Award winner Lisa Gerrard ("Gladiator" (2000) and "Whale Rider" in 2002 for which he received critical praise and the Italian jockey Frankie Dettori in "The Cup" (2011
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Optus Sport


that Optus had secured the Premier League rights was not received well by existing supporters. Most were locked into plans with either Foxtel or other telecommunications providers, and were skeptical of how Australia's poor network infrastructure could handle 'live' broadcasts over IPTV. The first three rounds were mired with complaints on social media and in other media outlets. Many fans were also unhappy that government broadcaster SBS had traded away their rights to the 2018 FIFA World Cup, albeit maintaining all Australian matches, select group stage games and the majority of
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Fox Cricket


. In early May, Foxtel announced the upcoming creation of a dedicated channel, Fox Cricket, featuring the entire Australian Summer of international cricket from 2018 and 2019 including tests, one day matches and T20 matches as well as the Big Bash Leagues and World Cups. The channel debuted on 17 September 2018, with the 2018 Caribbean Premier League final being the first live match broadcast. Sports programming on Fox Cricket includes the following: Fox Cricket will air several studio shows including the programs listed below: Media outlets announced a number of
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Nat Geo Wild


and North African viewers. The channel launched in Israel on 23 July 2008. The Asian version of the channel launched in Australia on 15 November 2009 on Austar and Foxtel. A high definition feed launched on Foxtel on 1 November 2010. Although the HD feed was expected to launch on Austar in late 2010/early 2011, the channel did not launch until 1 July 2012, after Foxtel acquired Austar. On 1 February 2015, Nat Geo Wild launched on Australian IPTV service Fetch TV. The Canadian version of Nat Geo Wild
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Air Force Network Integration Center


1994 – 30 Jun 1996; 1 Apr 1997 – 30 Apr 1998; 1 Oct 2000 – 31 Mar 2002; 30 Apr 2002 – 30 Sep 2003; 1 Oct 2003 – 30 Sep 2004; 10 May 2005 – 30 Sep 2006; 1 Oct 2006 – 30 Sep 2008; 1 Jul 2011 – 30 Jun 2013; 1 Oct 2013 – 30 Sep 2015; 1 Jan 2016 – 31 Dec 2017. https://www.afhra.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/432147/air-force-network-integration-
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Telstra


of Fox Sports (Australia) with Foxtel, News Corp's CEO Robert Thomson said the merger will allow Australians to consume content on more "personalised platforms". News Corp owns a 65 percent stake in the combined entity, with Telstra owning 35 percent. On 20 March 2019, Telstra denied access to millions of Australians to the websites 4chan, 8chan, Zero Hedge, and Liveleak as a reaction to the Christchurch mosque shootings. The following is a list of known active mobile networks used by Telstra: February 2011: Ericsson
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Mercurio's Menu


Channel Seven and most of its regional affiliate stations, such as Prime and Southern Cross. Some stations air the show at a different times due to sports coverage commitments - for instance the show is aired in Victoria at 5.30pm on a Saturday. The show also airs on 7Two every Saturday at 9pm In New Zealand, the show airs on weekday afternoons on subscription channel Food Television. Series one, two and three will soon be seen on Foxtel in Australia commencing in August 2011. Series One - 2008 "Episode 1 -
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ESPN Australia


watching the game live, beating the previous audience record of 107,100 viewers for Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014. The following is the list of sports programming shown on the ESPN network (with some being shown only on ESPN and not ESPN2, and vice versa). ESPN HD was one of the first five channels to be available in HD when Foxtel HD+ launched. ESPN HD commenced in June 2008. The SD version of ESPN began broadcasting in widescreen on 25 January 2010. On 2 June 2011 ESPN HD (the HD simulcast
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Gerrick Weedon


up after Patrick McGinnity was ruled out due to illness. Weedon was named as the substitute for the match, and came on the final quarter, recording three disposals and two tackles in limited game-time. He returned to the WAFL the next week, playing in all of Claremont's remaining games for the season. In the club's premiership victory over in the 2011 Grand Final, Weedon had 16 possessions and laid five tackles. He also represented the club in two Foxtel Cup matches. During the 2012 season, Weedon
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PBA on Solar Sports


league, beginning with the 2011 Commissioner's Cup. Peter Musngi, vice president of ABS-CBN's sports department, applauded the decision, considering it a "vote of confidence" for Studio 23 and ABS-CBN's sports division as a whole. Solar declined to renew its contract beyond the 2011-12 season. Sports5 and AKTV became the new official broadcasters of the PBA following the 2011 Governors' Cup. Solar aired on Studio 23 its the last PBA games during the Game 7 of the 2011 Governors' cup
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Union Shield – 2011


Union Shield – 2011 () is a joint Russian-Belarusian military exercise, which took place from Sep 16 until Sep 22, 2011. Russian Defence Minister Anatoliy Serdyukov officially announced that the joint military exercise "Union Shield" is to take place in September 2011 after the meeting with his counterparts - Mykhailo Yezhel (the Ukrainian Defence Minister) and Yuri Zhadobin (the Defence Minister of the Republic of Belarus), which was held in Minsk, April, 2011. The concept for the exercise was being developed jointly by the
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2018 Liberian FA Cup


The 2018 Liberian Cup is the 2018 edition of the Liberian FA Cup, the knockout football competition of Liberia. [Sep 29] NPA Anchors 0-0 FC BEA Mountain [aet, 3-1 pen] LISCR 2-1 Watanga Barrack Young Controllers 3-0 Paynesville FC [Sep 30] MC Breweries 2-0 Nimba Kwadoe [Oct 5] Barrack Young Controllers 4-2 NPA Anchors [aet] LISCR 2-0 MC Breweries [Oct 19, The Antoinette Tubman Stadium, Monrovia] Barrack Young Controllers
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2018 Nigeria Federation Cup


The 2018 Nigeria Federation Cup (known as the 2018 Aiteo Cup for sponsorship reasons) is the 77th edition of the football tournament. This edition of the competition began on 9 September 2018 and ended on 24 October 2018. First round matches were played from 9 September to 11 September 2018. Second round matches were played from 16, 17 September and 19 September 2018. Round 2 [Sep 26] Katsina United 0-1 Enyimba J. Atete 1-3 Plateau United Round 3 [Sep 27] J. Atete 2-4
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