Channel 4 has acquired exclusive terrestrial rights to the Snowboard World Championships being held in Whistler, British Colombia, January 15-23. Channel 4 will dedicate over five hours of coverage to the championships, complemented by an agreement with digital broadcaster Extreme Sports Channel for extended highlights across UK, Europe and the Middle East. These agreements were negotiated by London-based RDA Communications for international rights owner Wige Media of Cologne.

Channel 4 has acquired exclusive terrestrial rights to the Snowboard World Championships being held in Whistler, British Colombia, January 15-23.

The O’Neill Xtreme by Swatch freeride contest in Verbier, Switzerland, is gearing up for a Sunday start (28/03/04).

The O’Neill Xtreme by Swatch freeride contest in Verbier, Switzerland, has been placed on hold due to unfavourable weather conditions, and will not take place this weekend (20th – 21st March) Dangerously high winds and poor visibility are expected throughout the weekend on the Bec des Rosses forcing the event directors to postpone until more favourable conditions arrive. The event director continues to monitor the weather conditions, along with a team of meteorologists, and will make another eva

UK Terrestrial broadcaster C4 has today finalised an agreement to broadcast the FIS Snowboard World Cup for the coming winter. The deal completes C4’s line up of top class winter sports action, including the FIS Audi Alpine Ski World Cup, and the FIS Nordic World Cup.

The biggest revolution in Snowboarding has taken place with the launch of a new Snowboarding Tour.

The 2001/2002 snowboard season is finished in the Northern Hemisphere and the ISF (International Snowboard Federation) is very much alive! The goals for the future are to stay away from the promotion of a professional snowboard tour with focus on being an 'International Governing Body for Snowboarding' creating the rules, officials, education, world, national & special rankings, an informative web-portal for the global snowboard community, and develop grassroots programs including the Junior Wor

The International Snowboard Federation (ISF) is seeking a new sponsor for its 12-event world championship tour, following the widely-predicted withdrawal of existing sponsor Motorola.