Burnley v Town Chosen for Pay-Per-View TV

By: Rob Sedgwick
Date: 30/07/2001

GRIMSBY TOWN's away fixture against Burnley, originally scheduled for Saturday 24th November, has been selected to be broadcast by ITV Sport Select.

The pay-per-view channel have chosen the match as one of their 20 Nationwide League fixtures which they will be airing to pay-on-the-night armchair customers.

The Burnley game will now take place the preceding day on Friday 23rd November at 7:45pm. Town's game at Blundell Park with Birmingham City on 26th October had already been selected by the TV company to air live on their new channel.

ITV Digital are showing 40 FA Barclaycard Premiership pay-per-view games and 20 Nationwide pay-per-view games through ITV Sport Select, their sports pay-per-view service. Subscribers to the ITV Sport Channel (available through ITV Digital and also NTL) get all 60 of these games for £3.00 per month. The pay-per-view games are also available on a match by match basis.

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