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TWI Produces African Nations Cup For BBC
12/8/05 4:12 PM

London, 8 December 2005:- TWI is to produce the BBC�s coverage of next year�s African Nations Cup, featuring football teams from 16 countries.

The tournament, which is taking place in Egypt, will be a curtain-raiser for soccer�s main event in the summer, the eagerly-awaited 2006 World Cup, and features five teams who have qualified to play in Germany.

TWI will produce 17 two-hour shows for BBC3�s 25th Nations Cup coverage, which will be shown between 7 and 9pm from 20 January.

The commission, from BBC Sport�s Niall Sloane, will involve a fast turnaround for the TWI crews covering mostly two matches per night in five different venues, particularly where games do not finish before transmission.

TWI�s Head of Sport Graham Fry said: �We�re delighted to be working with the BBC to bring viewers what promises to be an exciting tournament. No doubt it will also help to whet people�s appetite for the World Cup as there is a fair chance that one of the five African World Cup qualifying teams will be drawn against  England.�

Roger Mosey, Director of BBC Sport,  said:  �We are pleased to be working with TWI on the 2006 African Nations Cup.  They have considerable experience in African football coverage.   As well as being an excellent tournament,  the cup will give viewers on BBC 3 a  preview of the African teams who will be taking part in the World Cup 2006." 
 
TWI�s Gerry Harrison will be Executive Editor of the African Nations� series; Executive Producer is  Lawrence Duffy.

ENDS

Editor�s notes:

� Tunisia are the reigning African champions, having won the 2004 tournament on home soil.
� The five African World Cup qualifiers are Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Angola and Tunisia.

� TWI is the  television, broadcast and new media arm of IMG, the world�s premier sports marketing agency. It is the world�s largest independent producer, packager and distributor of sports programming, producing more than 6,000 hours and distributing nearly 9,000 hours of live events and original programming each year, across 200 countries and covering more than 240 sports. TWI�s non sports-programming includes I�d Do Anything, for the BBC, The 2005 Oscars, and the BAFTA, RTS and Peabody-award-winning Colour of War documentary series.

� TWI has 40 offices worldwide and production centres in London, Hong Kong, New Delhi, New York, Seoul and Sydney. It also represents television rights to many of the world's premier sporting events and has the world�s biggest sports archive with more than 200,000 hours of footage.

Further information: Madeleine Pallas, PR Manager, Europe, IMG & TWI,
+44 (0) 208 233 7425/ + 44 (0) 7973 326 422 or email: [email protected]

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