Canadian Coverage Begins on Rogers Sportsnet

Canadian fans will get footy this year!  Rogers Sportsnet will carry Australian football on a delayed basis each week beginning with this weekend.  The matches will be tape delayed coverage from Setanta and the matches will parallel those aired on Setanta for US fans each week.   We do not know at this time if any coverage will be live in subsequent rounds.   The schedules posted at the Rogers Sportsnet web site previously listed the coverage only under "rugby" but now have a "Aussie Rules Footy" category.   Initial schedules show coverage on the Ontario feed of Sportsnet and on the HD feed but not on that for other regions (we've been advised that for now, the programs will only be on the Ontario and HD feeds).  At this time we believe the HD feed will simply be an "upconverted" version of the regular feed not an original HD feed since the source coverage is not in HD (to our knowledge).  Our TV page will carry the schedules as we are able to get them from Rogers and include them as far out as they become available.  We will post further details as we have them and update all of our web pages over the next several days.    We expect the coverage to continue until the end of the 2007 season including the Grand Final but that is yet to be confirmed.  We apologize for not announcing this sooner however we were asked not to do so by the AFL and networks and promised notice of when we could make an announcement.  However, no notice was forthcoming prior to the posting of the schedule by Rogers.