• Continuous efforts to increase TV and new media exposure succeed
• More than 30 TV broadcasters across 5 continents will show entire 5 days of competition or highlights
• Over 400 broadcast networks expected to screen news coverage of Championships

Oct. 5, 2009- The World Taekwondo Federation’s TV-Media strategy is coming to fruition at the forthcoming 2009 WTF World Taekwondo Championships through agreements on event coverage with a record number of broadcasters around the world.

More than 30 TV broadcasters across 5 continents will take entire or partial coverage of the 5 days of competition, i.e. more than 12 hours of air time. Among them are Eurosport Asia, TLC Mexico, TRT Turkey, Arirang TV of Korea, SBS Sports of Korea, UK Sky Sports, USA Fuel and ESPN Middle East.

A news and highlights package, which will be produced and distributed by the WTF from Copenhagen, will be relayed to 1,000 TV stations through the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

In addition, a number of influential TV magazine programs are also expected to use event coverage in their weekly editions of October 20 to 25.

As many negotiations are continuing over final highlights coverage, the figure is expected to increase in the next few days.

WTF President Chungwon Choue said, “It is encouraging, because it signals that our strategic approach to transform taekwondo into a more exciting and media-friendly sport is working. But it is just a beginning. We will continue our utmost to cooperate with more broadcasters around the world, particularly in improving live coverage.”

DR, of Denmark, is the host broadcaster for the 2009 World Taekwondo Championships which will be held in Copenhagen from October 14 to 18, 2009.

Worldwide, the WTF has a global membership of 189 countries, and is striving to increase this to more than 200.