Press Release: SportelMonaco 2008 - Outstanding Progress

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Monaco, 23 October – SPORTELMonaco 2008, the International Sports Convention for Television and New Media shows an outstanding progress thanks to marketing and communication efforts (conferences, symposium ...) for its market participants, in particular in the New Technologies area, declared David Tomatis, CEO MONACO MEDIAX/SPORTEL.

2008 numbers :

Market Participants: 2495 compared to 2360 in 2007

Companies: 1028 compared to 977 in 2007

Countries represented: 80

Journalists: 260 , 30% increase compared to 2007

- Two International Symposiums

- 6 conferences

- One Workshop: “SPORTEL Football Workshop”

- A “Handitel” day

SPORTEL events including the Golden Podium Awards Ceremony, two International Symposiums, six Press Conferences have gathered numerous personalities: Freddy Adu, Lord Sebastian Coe, Alberto Contador, Jérôme de Bontin, David Douillet, Gwladys Epangue, Tony Estanguet, Pascal Gentil, Johnny Herbert, Danny Jordaan, Taig Khris, Denis Masseglia, David Neal, Denis Oswald, Chu Young Park, Oscar Pistorius, Alexander Popov, Hein Verbruggen.

The next SPORTEL event will be SPORTELAmerica 2008, from 16 to 18 march 2009, Miami Beach, Florida, USA.

The 20th SPORTELMonaco 2009 will come back to the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco from 12 to 15 October 2008.

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