Melk (10 September 2003) – Youthstream, the promoter of the S1 SuperMoto World Championship, is proud to announce that a contract has been signed with the television company FOX.

FOX Sports World will broadcast the entire FIM SuperMoto World Championship 2004. FOX Sports World cable satellite channel covers 20 million households throughout USA and the Caribbean. FOX Sports World will broadcast highlight programme of 52 minutes of every race and will repeat this programme up to three times.

Before every broadcast of an S1 Grand Prix, FOX Sport World will make ten spots of 30 seconds announcing the programme.

Giuseppe Luongo, Youthstream President says ‘After one and a half years of hard work and investment, I am happy we are getting good results. FOX is one of the most important TV groups in the World and leaders in the USA. It is a huge step for S1 to have such an enormous coverage in North America where this sport is starting to explode, it is a good step towards bringing a Grand Prix in that part of the World. Thank you to Philippe Rahmani, our TV and IT director, for arriving in such a short time to such wonderful results. The American fans finally will enjoy receiving one of the most spectacular and exciting sports in the World in their home. We continue to work on increasing the TV coverage and the notoriety of the SuperMoto, up until today more than 200 million people receive SuperMoto on their TV and this will continue to expand.’

The S1 is broadcasted live on AB Moteurs and TMC in Europe, on ART in the Middle East and highlights are shown on the most important television stations in the World.

For more details contact:

Ann-Gaëlle PERENNES
Media Press Manager
Tel: +33603967359
e-mail: mediapress@youthstream.org