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GO Plus is enhancing its digital television offering by launching a new and revamped Sports+ package featuring a greater variety of international sporting events and team channels. This was announced by GO Chief Executive Officer David Kay.

The new Sports+ line-up on channels 851 and 852 now includes a range of top quality sporting events featuring football, rugby, golf, tennis, horseracing and boxing. Some of the football tournaments GO Plus will be airing include four consecutive seasons of the English FA Cup, the home matches of the English national senior and under 21 teams and the Community Shield. Other football tournaments include the Amsterdam Tournament and the Dubai Cup.

With regards to rugby, GO Plus is airing the Guinness Premiership, Heineken Cup, EDF Energy Cup, Churchill Cup, England Autumn Internationals and Celtic Union matches.

In tennis, GO Plus will be airing Wimbledon and the ATP Masters Series starting in 2008. Golfers can also enjoy full coverage of the European PGA tournaments and the Majors including the US Open, the PGA Open as well as the Ryder Cup.

Horseracing fans can enjoy the Grand Prix of France as well as tournaments from Sweden and France, whilst boxing fans will enjoy the Sports Network (a minimum of 5 fights) and the Sauerland (a minimum of 5 fights) apart from local boxing.

GO Plus launched also the Club+ package, which gives football enthusiasts the opportunity to follow full coverage of all English Premier League, Champions League and Carling Cup matches for the following teams on their respective club channels: Manchester United (starts January 2008) - MUTV channel 860; Liverpool - Liverpool TV channel 861; Arsenal - Arsenal TV channel 862; Tottenham Hotspurs - Spurs TV channel 862; and Chelsea - Chelsea TV (starts October 2008).

One can subscribe to Sports+ for a monthly fee of Lm4.10/ €9.55, which will also include Club+ for free. Alternatively, one can subscribe solely to Club+ for a monthly fee of Lm2.15/ €5.

“GO is committed to provide the best quality and affordable digital TV to all Maltese households. With a network coverage of 95%, we are truly offering our customers the best value deal for television. The investment in improving the network coverage of TV is now being coupled by a massive boost in the sports TV content on GO Plus,” said GO CEO David Kay.

Michele Dandria, Product Manager TV said: “With the acquisition of several sports content, we are giving sports fans a feast of events and tournaments from a variety of disciplines including football, rugby, horseracing, tennis and golf. Besides, English football fans can also opt for the channel of their favourite team and watch all the games of their team - all this for very affordable rates.”

A specific on sports has been created in GO’s website www.go.com....mt. For further information call Freephone 8007 2121 or visit any GO or GO Plus outlet.