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Media Notes: Ten Sports Bags MotoGP Broadcast Rights For 5 Years

Zee group firm Ten Sports Network has bagged broadcast rights for the world championship of motorcycle racing 'MotoGP' in the Indian sub-continent for the next five years for an undisclosed sum.

Taj TV, the company which owns Ten Sports has entered into a deal with Dorna Sports that holds rights for MotoGP, for five seasons starting 2015, the company said in a statement today.

Zee group firm Ten Sports Network "bagged broadcast rights" for MotoGP in the Indian sub-continent for the next five years for an undisclosed sum. Taj TV, the company which owns Ten Sports, "entered into a deal with Dorna Sports that holds rights for MotoGP, for five seasons starting 2015" (PTI, 2/12). ... Middle East and North Africa pay-TV network OSN and WWE announced a five-year partnership to distribute WWE Network as a premium, linear channel. The agreement will run concurrent with WWE and OSN’s existing partnership to air WWE’s flagship programming, Raw and SmackDown, as well as NXT, Superstars and more in the region (OSN).

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