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Maccabi Haifa Basketball
to Air Weekly on JLTV
Haifa
becomes first Israeli Basketball team to be broadcast on television in English
in the US
The Maccabi Haifa Israeli professional basketball team kicks off its 2009-10
season against defending champs and perennial powerhouse Maccabi Tel Aviv on
Thursday, October 29 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time on JLTV. The opening game begins a
22-game broadcast season with play-by-play action in English airing on the
popular Jewish Life Television (JLTV) network, which reaches over 25 million
households.
The weekly broadcasts will be the first-time that any Israeli basketball team,
will have its games broadcast in English in the United States on conventional
television. This historic event will launch the official season, which begins
the end of October and runs through April 25, 2010.
The Israeli basketball league has been praised by sports critics and
enthusiasts as highly competitive and is ranked among the top five leagues in
the world.
Viewers will be able to identify with new sports heroes like Maccabi Haifa
superstars Davon Jefferson (from USC), Ido Kozikaro, Moshe Mizrahi, Dror Hagag,
Jeremy Tyler (from San Diego), and Jason Rich (FSU).
"JLTV is proud to bring professional Israeli basketball competition to its
regular program line-up," commented JLTV President and CEO Phil Blazer.
"Our goal is for Maccabi Haifa and its players to become Israel's basketball
team for America," said Maccabi Haifa owner and American businessman Jeffrey
Rosen.
All Maccabi Haifa games will be broadcast each Thursday night at 8:00 PM ET on
JLTV. Prior to each game broadcast, JLTV will air at 7:30 PM ET,
Maccabi Haifa's new magazine show called Inside
Israeli Basketball. The show provides an in-depth look at what life
is like in Israel for Maccabi Haifa's American players and their Israeli
counterparts.
About Maccabi Haifa
Maccabi Haifa, an Israeli Premier League basketball team, has a long and
storied legacy as they were one of the original eight teams to form the Premier
League during the 1954 season. This past season under the ownership of American
businessman Jeffrey Rosen, the team earned an appearance in both the Premier
League Finals as well as the State Cup Finals in the team's first season back
in the Premier League after a 10-year absence. The team was purchased by
Jeffrey Rosen in July 2007. For more information about Maccabi Haifa, please
visit http://www.mhbasket.co.il/.
About JLTV (Jewish Life Television)
JL TV (Jewish Life Television) offers a breadth of news, sports, lifestyle and
entertainment programming including films, documentaries, music, reviews,
interviews and special events. Its spotlight on Israel and Jewish Life is
facilitated by broadcast studios in Los Angeles, New York and Toronto, as well
as bureaus in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Washington DC, Miami, London and Moscow.
Members of its website can access live and on-demand programming anywhere in
the world; watch unique local, national and international news stories; and
take part in one of the fastest growing online social networks. For more
information and programming, visit http://www.jltv.tv/.
About Triangle Financial Services
Triangle Financial Services, a sports and entertainment investment firm based
in Aventura, Fla., has a diverse portfolio of international sports enterprises.
The acquisition of the Maccabi Haifa professional basketball team as well
as the Second Division team Hapoel Kiryat Tivon in Israel along with the launch
of http://www.triangleinternet.tv/,
the first-ever Internet TV site to feature full-length Israeli Premier League
games and highlights in English, represent Triangle's continued effort to
invest in emerging international sports ventures. For more information on
Triangle Financial Services, please visit http://www.trianglefs.com/.
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