NBC Sports Group to Present 34th America’s Cup Live in 2013
1 March. The NBC Sports Group will present live coverage of the 34th America’s Cup on both NBC and the NBC Sports Network beginning on September 7, 2013 from the Cup’s host city of San Francisco.
The first two days of racing will be broadcast over-the-air across the United States on September 7-8 on NBC, with the remaining races airing on NBC Sports Network. With the event taking place in San Francisco, the NBC Sports Group’s regional sports network Comcast SportsNet California will provide the additional local coverage that surrounds the America’s Cup Finals. NBC Sports Group also acquired the rights to the 2013 Louis Vuitton Cup, the America’s Cup Challenger Series, which determines the challenger for the America’s Cup Finals. Read more about the NBC partnership as well as the 2012 air dates
Sky Sports Live Coverage of AC World Series
27 February. Sky Sports will provide full daily live coverage of the next stop of the America’s Cup World Series in Naples, Italy in April and in Venice in May, in addition to daily race highlights. With 13 hours of live coverage alone planned from the 11th to 15th of April, Sky Sports will be the UK’s home base for high-octane America’s Cup racing. Both events will be available in the UK live on Sky Sports and via live streaming on skysports.com.
34th America’s Cup Store Opens for Business
2 March. The Official 34th America’s Cup Online Store is open for business!
Beginning with 34th America’s Cup long and short-sleeved T-shirts, men’s and women’s jackets, headwear and gifts, the store is available to fans around the globe. You can also purchase event t-shirts for AC World Series sites such as Naples, Venice and Newport.
Official team merchandise will be introduced next so fans can actively support their favorite teams.
Getting ready for Naples
2 March. With the first race in Naples just 35 days away, preparations continue for the first America’s Cup World Series stop of 2012. Unloading of the M/V Palabora is taking place in Naples today (Friday), with the cargo going into storage in the Port until later in March when it will be trucked to the Via Caracciolo and set up in the Race Village.
Mayor Lee & ACEA Announce Consolidated Venue Plan for 34th America’s Cup
27 February. Mayor Edwin M. Lee and the America’s Cup Event Authority (ACEA) announced today a consolidated venue plan for the 34th America’s Cup, removing Piers 30-32 for use during the America’s Cup events, consolidating all racing teams at Pier 80 and build a race village at Pier 27-29.
As seen in Venice
By night and from above, through its narrow canals and from offshore, photographer Gilles Martin-Raget portrays Venice, home of the AC World Series, May 12-20. Galleries:
As seen in Venice
Arsenale
Venice from above
Lido racing area
San Marco racing area
Venice by night
Compagnia della vela
America’s Cup Uncovered – Episode 28
This week we are back in San Francisco as ORACLE Racing host the media at Pier 80. We meet Emirates Team New Zealand designer Pete Melvin. Then we talk to America’s Cup Event Authority Chairman and CEO Richard Worth. We then uncover one of America’s Cup Healthy Ocean Project partners, the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco.
Getting ready to go big
1 March. The America’s Cup teams currently building AC72s are deep into planning the complex logistics required to house and move their enormous catamarans and towering wingsails from the shore base, to the water, and back again.
« We’re three months into the construction of the yacht, so we now are thinking seriously about how we are going to accommodate the yacht and wing in Auckland to start our testing program, » says Emirates Team New Zealand’s chief operating officer, Kevin Shoebridge.