WORLD SQUASH NEWS
PSA Appoints Pro-Active TV
The Professional Squash Association (PSA) is pleased to announce the
appointment of Pro-Active Television as exclusive TV and sponsorship
development partners for the next three years.
Under this new agreement, Pro-Active Television will handle all international
TV rights for PSA-sanctioned events worldwide .
In addition, Pro-Active will exclusively represent a new sponsorship package
agreed with the PSA, aimed at bringing sponsors to a series of top PSA events
to be known as the PSA Super Series World Tour.
Gawain Briars, Executive Director of the PSA, said: "Our sport is continuing
to grow worldwide and the time had come to have an expert partner who could
concentrate on maximising television coverage and handling the
broadcast-related sponsorship opportunities available to us.
"After six years of producing our international TV output, Pro-Active were
the ideal and trusted partner to help us co-ordinate these two closely-linked
areas and put fresh energy into our marketing efforts. Because the PSA is
becoming busier and busier, co-ordinating more new events, we needed someone
to work alongside us who could just concentrate on the overall commercial
picture," Briars explained.
"This is part of a long term plan that will keep the profile of professional
squash as high as possible on television around the world, bringing it to the
attention of major sponsors who can benefit from the coverage and the
associations with our sport as it enters some very exciting times."
Pro-Active's TV programming for PSA has been featured on a number of networks
around the world, including Sky Sports, Star TV, Fox Sports, Fox Sports World
and MNet - which broadcast to more than 116 million homes worldwide.
The projected broadcast roster for this year already includes the following,
with other events close to being added:
Tournament of Champions, New York Feb 22-27
Super Series Finals, London May 12-16
PSA Masters, Qatar May 19-24
English Open, Sheffield Aug 13-17
Pakistan Open Oct 10-16
Qatar Classic Dec 1-5
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