DIRECTV must be on a mission to acquire every golf and tennis fan in America with their continued “Mix” coverage of major events. First it was the Masters Golf tournament, the the French Open Mix, and next will be the Wimbledon Interactive Mix starting later this month on June 23rd.
Coverage won’t be quiet as extensive as the French Open where DIRECTV offered in the area of 350 hours worth of live tennis matches. This partnership for the premier tennis tournament will have 200 hours of coverage during the first five days of Wimbledon.
The All England Club will once again host the tournament on their fames grass courts. Roger Federer and Ana Ivanovic have each been seeded first, with Federer a heavy favorite to take home his 6th straight Wimbledon title.
This year’s tournament runs from May 25th through June 8th. DIRECTV’s coverage will be heavy during the first 8 days of the tournament, as early round matches will be available like never before.
If you were able to catch any of DIRECTV’s French Open Interactive coverage, you can expect more of the same when it comes to Wimbledon interactive.
The mix channel features multiple screenshots of up to what is going on live, including six separate screen shots. These may include up to 6 live events at a time, where DIRECTV customers will then be able to control the action via remote control. Viewers can elect to jump to a full-screen of any particular match the want to zoom in on. Additional interactive features will once again be available right through the DIRECTV remote control.
DIRECTV is working with ESPN2 on this year’s Wimbledon coverage. After the first 5 days of action, ESPN2 and NBC will take over with extensive coverage. Overall ESPN2 is promising nearly 100 hours of Wimbledon action.
Features similar to the French Open coverage will be:
Matches On Now – A view on the lower part of the screen, with postings of the latest scores of all current matches. DIRECTV customers can then tune-in directly to any available match by pressing “Select” on the remote.
Results – DIRECTV viewers can access real-time scoring of all Wimbledon matches in progress, and see completed match scores. Upcoming match-ups will be accessible, all available without missing any action on the current channel.
So DIRECTV is once again proving to be the choice of the sports fan. With all of the Wimbledon, French Open, Masters, NASCAR Hotpass, and of course NFL Sunday ticket coverage this year, DIRECTV expects to broadcast more than 6,000 hours of interactive sports coverage in 2008.
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THe direct tv comentators have been outstanding, but when John Mcenroe or Mary Carillo are on, my tennis friends and I use the mute button. Unfortunately, they talk during the games usually about something in the past and totally irrelevant if you really care about tennis.
Why isn’t direct tv covering the 2nd week of wimbledon? The first week coverage was so good.
What Wimbledon coverage? Every time I turn to watch a match it says “Tennis is blacked out on this channel” so I have to watch it on another channel, and those retards are showing the same freaking game I just watched on the last channel.
DirectTV, ESPN, NBC all suck, they messed up the Olympics, they mess up every sport except Baseball and nobody wants to watch that steroid crap anymore.
Why no coverage on channels 702-709 or even ESPN of Wimbledon tennis. What a farce–give us one week and then these channels are not available. Phil
It would have been nice to see the later rounds of Wimbledon, but no coverage. My question is why offer a good thing then take it away from your customer?
I cant believe this is being given coverage… its not like we are talking about fly fishing or plate spinning, this is the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world!
Coverage of Wimbledon has been pathetic! Why bother!? 2 ESPN channels devoted to World Cup and sparce coverage of Wimbledon at best!! And stop advertising the split screen channels – those only work for the 1st week if that long! False advertising! GIVE TENNIS EQUAL TIME TO OTHER SPORTS!!