SloopJohnB 323 Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 From Daily Sail Facts and figures from Consorcio Valencia 2007 on AC33 Tuesday February 16th 2010, Author: AC33, Location: Spain The second successive victory for BMW ORACLE Racing against Alinghi on Sunday 14th February 2010 marked the end of the 33rd America’s Cup in Valencia. One month before Consorcio Valencia 2007 jointly with an international team of specialists staged a global event which again placed Valencia on the world stage. The Société Nautique de Geneve delegated the land-side organization of the 33rd America’s Cup to Consorcio Valence 2007. On 7 February, the Port America' S Cup located in the Marina Real Juan Carlos I, Valencia formally opened the 33rd edition of the oldest international sporting trophy in the world in front of more than 60,000 people. Over 10 days, more than 150 people of 10 nationalities were employed in the running of the event on the ground, the site visited by welcomed over 200,000 people TV 39 TV channels acquired the broadcasting rights : Sky (Great Britain), Canal + (France), Teledeporte and Canal 9 (Spain), Eurosport (Europe), Show Time (the Middle East), ESPN (the USA) FOX Live (Australia), TVNZ and Sky (New Zealand). 15 hours of live broadcasting to 216 territories 27 hours of special programmes 2,160 million potential viewing audience. Web (www.americascup.com) 2,800,000 visits 1,200,000 unique visitors 656,000 unique visitors watched the live racing direct through the official web site (this audience does not include the streaming broadcasting by 350 other Internet sites worldwide) 346,000 was the record number of unique visitors, occurring on the 12 of February 16,000 Facebook fans and 13,000 followers on Twitter in the three official languages of all the communication of the Web (Spanish, English and French) More than 300 articles published more in three languages on www.americascup.com Public (from the 7th to the 14th of February) Global number of visitors: 201,000 between the 7th the 14th of February Record: 7th of February 2007 - 60,000 people at the event inauguration More than 2,000 children of Valencian schools in organized visits More than 1,200 hamburgers more served More 5,000 served plates of paella More than 800 fondues (150 kg of cheese) served More than 1,400 kilos of powder in `mascletás' Press centre 965 Requests accreditation requests from 37 countries (Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the United States, Great Britain, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, the Faeroes, Finland, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Holland, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Ireland, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, Islands Vírgenes and the Ukraine) More than 8,000 articles were published 400 daily users connected to the Internet to the Wi-Fi network of 120 Mbs 10 kilometers of optical fiber installed 15 official Vehicles that have realised 13,244 kilometers in more than 700 services 5 official press conferences in the conference hall Promotion 2,000 sq m of canvases 500 banners 180 bus stop advertising panels 1,000 1 minute adverts of the 33rd America's Cup in the trains of the Mediterranean corridor area Continuous advertising of 35 seconds in 345 buses of Valencia 10,000 official programs distributed. Presence in airports of Madrid and Barcelona The 33rd America's Cup regatta 2 boats: the catamaran Alinghi 5 and the trimaran the USA 2 regattas: 12th of February and 14th of February 2 formats of racing: Windward/Leeward (12th of February) and triangle (14th of February) 79 nautical miles of racing: 40 in the first and 39 in second 24 sailors in the official crew listing: 14 on Alinghi 5, 10 in the USA 2-0, the score in favor of BMW ORACLE Racing 15 minutes and 25 seconds, the delta of first race, on 12 February 5 minutes and 29 seconds, the delta of second race, on 14 February America's Cup historic stats 33 editions of America's Cup between 1870 and 2010 4 countries have defended the America's Cup: The United States, Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland 28 editions defended by the United States: 1870 to 1983, 1988, 1992, 1995 1 edition defended by Australia: 1987 2 editions defended by New Zealand: 2000 and 2003 2 editions defended by Switzerland: 2007 and 2010 7 countries have reached the America's Cup Match (England, Italy, Canada, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand and the United States) 6 venues in 159 years: New York (the USA), Newport (the USA), Fremantle (AUS), San Diego (the USA), Auckland (NZL) and Valencia (ESP) 1 trophy: the America's Cup 1 America's Cup Link to post Share on other sites
ScottiE 174 Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 the only thing of interest in that was that TVNZ aquired broadcasting rights - WTF?!?!? Link to post Share on other sites
Atom Ant 0 Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 i still haven't seen any of it apart from a 15 second slot on TV1 news. What did they pay for that? Link to post Share on other sites
SloopJohnB 323 Posted February 17, 2010 Author Share Posted February 17, 2010 MT to go over there and front for the BMWO show along with PL. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Don't think they paid anything for it. As I understand it the rights were given away and offered freebie to the last crowd who broadcast AC coverage in that country. Don't know how Sky ended up with it, probably TVNZ said go for it as we aren't bothered maybe. Link to post Share on other sites
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