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FUEL TV marks 50 Years at Bells Beach

Surf's up on FUEL TV as the 2011 Rip Curl Pro marks 50 years of professional surfing at Bells Beach.

Surf’s up on FUEL TV as the 2011 Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach begins next Tuesday and continues until Saturday April 30.

This will mark the 50th anniversary of professional surfing at Bells Beach, Victoria.

FUEL TV will once again deliver Exclusively Live coverage of the Rip Curl Pro from Bells Beach Victoria this month, as the season’s second ASP World Tour event celebrates its 50th anniversary.

After Kelly Slater continued his dominance in the opening event on the Gold Coast last month, all signs are pointing towards the Southern Ocean swell near Torquay where Slater and his rivals will battle it out for the right to ring the infamous bell.

FUEL TV will mark the occasion with an all-encompassing coverage of the competition, which will begin each morning with ‘The Rip Curl Pro Morning Show’ Live from the event site.

The Rip Curl Morning Show will premiere at 7.30am AEST on Tuesday 19 April, the opening day of the waiting period for the Rip Curl Pro, and will screen at 7.30am AEST each day on FUEL TV until the competition concludes. (NB live surfing coverage will interrupt Morning Show if competition is active).

The FUEL TV cameras will then turn to the water as soon as surfing begins, taking in all the action from the opening heats right through until the champion is crowned.

Adam Howarth, FUEL TV Australia Channel Manager, said FUEL TV was aiming to provide a fitting coverage to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Bells with surf fans across the country.

“Easter marks the 50-year anniversary of professional surfing at Bells Beach, but as well as celebrating the tradition and history of the event, Rip Curl has put a stack of effort behind the broadcast with some great innovation to make this a truly comprehensive coverage of the event,” said Howarth.

Our audience will see a variety of key additions to the production and we’ll have more angles at Bells than ever, including a full time water camera. We are absolutely foaming at the mouth to get this event to air. It’s going to be the best live surfing broadcast ever.”

In addition to the Exclusively Live coverage of the event, FUEL TV will provide a nightly highlights package showcasing the best action from each day of competition at 6pm AEST each night.

The Rip Curl Pro Morning Show begins at 7.30am AEST Live from Bells, Tuesday 19 April.

2 Responses

  1. Is it just FUEL TV that has the rights to this David? or is it also going to be on ONE HD I enjoyed the event at the Gold Coast. I also want to know how many ASP world tour events ONE HD has the rights to. I am pretty sure the surfing will stay on ONE HD. a) its viewed by a predominantly male audience which fits in with their re-branding of the channel and b) it also fits the networks (ten’s) ambition to be a channel for the young again.

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