International Fight League (IFL) TV platform as the combination of ABS-CBN, the largest television channel in The Philippines, TV4, a top network in Sweden, and EGO, one of the fastest growing private channels in Israel, along with IFL Battleground and IFL Fight Night that will be carried by TV4 in Sweden, licensed by ABS-CBN in the Philippines, and EGO in Israel will be starting in September 2007, announced The International Fight League (OTC.BB: IFLI), the worlds number one team-based professional mixed martial arts league, and Alfred Haber Distribution (AHDI) of these addition of another three territories to their fast-growing international television network on August 20, 2007.
These additions that also includes all of the Middle East and parts of northern Africa on MBC, the leading free-to-air Pan-Arab news and entertainment channel in the region and CanWest Global in Canada, who is distributing the shows on their Global X-Treme Sports Channel come after AHDI and the IFL announced their first Asian television deal with STAR on August 6.
Gareb Shamus, IFL co-founder and CEO said, our television business has now grown steadily thanks to the combination of quality programming that tells the stories and shows our events to a mainstream audience, and the diligent work of AHDI. This additional Middle Eastern exposure, as well as the growth into Europe and the Philippines, is another sure sign that the IFL business model is growing soundly and that there is more good news to come for our television partners, our business partners and the growing number of MMA fans around the world.
Alfred Haber, Inc., and Alfred Haber Distribution, Inc., HABER, established 40 years ago, together form the world’s largest distributor of U.S. Network (CBS, ABC, NBC and FOX) reality, music and event specials, and are major independent distributors of reality and documentary series, mini-series and made-for-television motion pictures for the U.S. and the international television marketplace.
