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The Australian Superbike Championship (ASBK) will feature extensive television coverage in 2016, Motorcycling Australia (MA) has announced this week.

Rounds will be broadcast free-to-air on 7mate one week following each event, with Fox Sports returning to be shown two weeks afterwards.

“We are thrilled to offer this media package to our sponsors, teams and athletes to promote the sport to the largest audience possible,” explained MA CEO David Cottee.

“Our aim with the television broadcast is to showcase the sport’s high speed action and to build on creating a bigger and better national championship throughout 2016. To see the development of the series over last year is just incredible.

“We are continually developing and listening to what our stakeholders, ambassadors and competitors want and trying to move in a direction where we can continue to have a National Championship of the highest quality.

“We are proud to offer this year’s media package to competitors and teams. It is wonderful to be able to build on last year’s success to deliver fresh, exciting, new camera angles, interviews, vision and capture how hard our Australian talent works to be able to claim the ASBK title.”

Alongside the television coverage, ASBK will benefit from the addition of NRGTV video at events, as well as MA’s new in-house media team of Misty Walton and Eliza Berry.