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BBC Adds Cricket Radio Rights For England's Ashes Tour To Portfolio05 / 17 / 13The BBC "has added the rights for the upcoming England Ashes tour to Australia to its extensive portfolio of cricket coverage on Radio 5 Live's Test Match Special," according to Mark Sweney of the London GUARDIAN. The BBC "has struck an exclusive deal to provide ball-by-ball radio coverage of the As... Tags: Media, United Kingdom |
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Channel 4 Reports Loss In 2012
British TV broadcaster Channel 4 has reported a loss of £29M ($44M) for '12, "as intended, as part of a strategy of extra investment in content including its acclaimed London 2012 Paralympics coverage and building its digital audience data operation," according to Sweney & Plunkett of the ...
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AFL Broadcasts Set Viewership Records
The Seven Network and Fox Footy's Australian Football League are "kicking goals with another Monday night success" after the biggest Friday night AFL audience ever, according to Michael Bodey of THE AUSTRALIAN. Monday night's broadcast of St. Kilda's victory over Carlton "was well up on last year's ...
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Swiss public broadcaster SRG SSR has extended its broadcast rights deal with MotoGP rights holder Dorna Sports for another three years. The broadcaster will continue its MotoGP and Moto2 coverage, on TV, radio and online, until the end of '16 ( SRG SSR ). ... World Archery has signed a partnership w ...
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BT Begins $153M Ad Blitz
BT has set aside £100M ($153M) to promote its new sports channels, "as it attempts to overthrow two decades of football dominance by BSkyB ahead of next season's Premier League," according to Arif Durrani of MEDIA WEEK. Sources said that marketing execs at the company "are preparing to boost" ...
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IIHF World Championship Tops Sport1
German free-to-air TV channel Sport1 "has received great ratings for its broadcast of the 2013 IIHF World Championship," according to Alexander Krei of DWDL. Germany's preliminary round matchup against the U.S. Sunday attracted 710,000 viewers. The number translated into a market share of 4.6%. In t ...
McLaren Launches New Twitter Handle
Vodafone McLaren Mercedes "displayed its new Twitter handle, @McLarenF1," on the front wing endplate of the team's cars during the Spanish Grand Prix last weekend, according to Chloe Smith of CAMPAIGN LIVE. The new handle "was promoted on the cars driven by Jenson Button and Sergio Perez," and repla ...
IMG To Distribute Alpari Racing Tour
IMG Media has signed a long-term deal with Alpari World Match Racing Tour to increase global viewing of the leading pro sailing series. IMG Media will distribute a series of highlights programs from each event, as well as a daily video news release (VNR) to all forms of media, including digital, thr ...
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German pay-TV Sky channel "has extended its broadcast rights contract with the EPL." Sky "will continue to exclusively show the Premier League in Germany." The network "will continue to air an average of three games per match weekend." The contract extention "was in doubt as the Premier League does ...
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BT Adds Pay-TV Subscribers
BT signed up 40,000 pay TV customers in the last three months, bringing the total to 810,000, the telecom group said "as it announced better than expected fourth-quarter and full-year results," according to Juliette Garside of the London GUARDIAN. BT's high-profile entry into broadcasting on Th ...
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BT, FA Women's Super League Partner
The FA has reached an agreement with British telecom company BT "to become one of the founding partners of a new commercial programme for women's football" from '14-18, according to SOCCEREX. BT "has acquired rights for the FA Women’s Super League, the England women’s senior team and the ...
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