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FourFourTwo is a thrice-weekly football magazine television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

show on Asian cable channel, Astro

Astro (Malaysian satellite television)

Astro is the brand name of the Malaysian direct broadcast satellite pay television service. It transmits digital satellite television and radio to households in Malaysia & Brunei...

SuperSport, broadcasting to Malaysia and Brunei in association with global football magazine, FourFourTwo

FourFourTwo

FourFourTwo is a football magazine published by Haymarket. Published monthly, costing £4.50, and at about 164 pages long, it published its 200th edition in February 2011...

. In its third season, FourFourTwo has highlights from European leagues including England's Premier League, Spain's La Liga

La Liga

The Primera División of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional , commonly known as La Liga or, for sponsorship reasons, Liga BBVA since 2008, is the top professional association football division of the Spanish football league system...

, Italian Serie A

Serie A

Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...

and the German Bundesliga

Fußball-Bundesliga

The Fußball-Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of Germany's football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga...

. It is hosted by former CNN

CNN

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and BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

anchor Jason Dasey

Jason Dasey

Jason Dasey is a journalist and broadcaster, a former CNN International, BBC World News and ESPN anchor who works as a TV sports host and executive producer for Asian satellite network, ASTRO...

or local presenters Adam Carruthers and Adrian Jalaludin and co-hosted by Jay Menon, a Malaysian model and actress. Its coverage of the Premier League includes a news update, fans segment and gossip section, with ex-England international Tony Cottee

Tony Cottee

Anthony Richard "Tony" Cottee is a former football player who now works as a television football commentator...

in London.

Air times

FourFourTwo is a one-hour program that airs every Tuesday at 9.00pm on Astro SuperSport, with a second show - FourFourTwo: EuroZone - broadcast on Friday at 9.00pm on Astro SuperSport plus a third show, FourFourTwo: EuroGoals on Monday at 9.00pm. There are several repeats at other times of the week, including Saturday evenings before 'live' football. FourFourTwo initially started as a single 30-minute show on August 11 2009 before expanding to 60-minutes in its ninth episode on October 6 2009. The Tuesday edition celebrated its 100th episode on 25th November 2011.

Guests

FourFourTwo has players and coaches, past and present, as studio experts, including former Australian striker Abbas Saad

Abbas Saad

Abbas Saad is an Australian former international football player.-Club career:Born in Lebanon, Saad moved to Australia and started a professional footballing career. A midfielder with a good eye for goal, he played in the Malaysian League for Johor and Singapore in the early 1990s...

and ex-England international Peter Barnes

Peter Barnes

Peter Barnes was an English Olivier Award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His most famous work is the play The Ruling Class, which was made into a 1972 film for which Peter O'Toole received an Oscar nomination....

. Other guests include former England international John Barnes

John Barnes (footballer)

John Charles Bryan Barnes MBE is an English football manager and former player.During his playing career, Barnes had successful periods at Watford and Liverpool in the 1980s and 1990s, winning the First Division twice, the FA Cup twice, and playing for England 79 times...

and ex-Australian winger Scott Ollerenshaw

Scott Ollerenshaw

Scott Ollerenshaw is a former Australian football player, best known for his appearances for his country's national side in the late 1980s.-Club career:...

European Edition

The second version of FourFourTwo - EuroZone - began in August 2010. In the 2009-2010 season, FourFourTwo: Road to South Africa 2010 - provided previews for the 2010 FIFA World Cup

2010 FIFA World Cup

The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010...

. FourFourTwo - EuroZone has Madrid-based commentator Sid Lowe as its La Liga

La Liga

correspondent and Paolo Bandini providing weekly updates on Serie A

Serie A

EuroGoals Edition

A third version, 'FourFourTwo - EuroGoals, commenced in August 2011, providing a Monday night review of the weekend's continental action.

FourFourTwo Predictor

From the start of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, "FourFourTwo" introduced the FourFourTwo Predictor which provides stats, analysis and predictions of featured games, including matches in Astro's Premier League coverage. It is usually hosted by Jay Menon.

Ratings Success

According to the independent AC Nielsen survey, FourFourTwo was consistently out-rating rival show, the now defunct Football Focus on ESPN

ESPN

Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....

, in its first season, reaching a peak of more than three times the number of viewers within Malaysia.

External links

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