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Russian Cabler NTV Plus Picks Up Broadcast Rights To Spanish Basketball League05 / 24 / 13The Spanish Basketball League (ACB) will be broadcast in Russia starting with the upcoming playoffs thanks to Russian cable leader NTV Plus, according to the EP. The ACB is now aired in 101 countries on four continents. ACB Dir General Albert Agustí "showed his satisfaction" and said, "With R... |
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The Int'l Biathlon Union "has put the media rights starting with the '14-15 season up for bids." The media rights include TV, Internet and mobile. The IBU "wants to award the media rights for a four-year period but only to a worldwide acting partner." Current rights holder is the European Broadcast ...
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Austrian Bundesliga Signs New TV Deal
The Austrian football Bundesliga "revealed that it has agreed to a new TV-rights deal with pay-TV channel Sky and public broadcaster ORF," according to Alexander Strecha of the KURIER. The new deal increases the league's TV income from €17M ($22M) to €20.2M ($26.1M) a year. The league sign ...
Ferguson Blasts TV Scheduling
ManU Manager Alex Ferguson fears his club's challenge to take the Premier League title back from Man City in the second half of the season could be undermined by "ridiculous" TV scheduling, according to Steve Tongue of the London INDEPENDENT. Ferguson wants the TV companies to avoid scheduling ManU ...
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Traynor To Work For Rangers
Former Scotland Daily Record journalist and BBC pundit James Traynor was unveiled as the director of communications at Scottish Third Division club Rangers, according to Chris Marshall of the SCOTSMAN. The 59-year-old Traynor, who signed off from 37 years as a sports writer earlier this week by laun ...
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Ten Looks To Acquire Cricket Rights
Channel Nine's 33-year "stranglehold on Australian cricket's broadcast rights is under siege, with Channel Ten preparing to throw everything at a prized new deal," according to Ben Dorries of the COURIER-MAIL. For the first time since Kerry Packer won the rights in '79 after the World Series Cricket ...
Aussie Cricket League On Free-To-Air TV
The Twenty20 Big Bash League "will be shown on free-to-air TV for the first time under the terms of cricket's new A$400M ($420M) broadcast-rights deal," according to Chris Barrett of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. The competition "is now televised by Fox Sports, but under the new broadcast-rights arrang ...
ZDF's CL Broadcast Earns Top Rating
German public broadcaster ZDF "obtained Wednesday's top rating with its broadcast of the Champions League match between Bayern Munich and FC BATE Borisov," according to Sidney Schering of QUOTEN METER. A total of 7.09 million viewers tuned in to watch Bayern's 4-1 victory. The number equaled a marke ...
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German public broadcaster ARD "could lose its Bundesliga audio rights as the German Football League (DFL) puts the audio rights to the Bundesliga and 2nd Bundesliga up for bid for the first time." A decision about the leagues' audio rights for the seasons '13-14 to '16-17 will be made by the e ...
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NBA, ESPN Reach U.K Deal
The NBA and ESPN have reached a new TV-rights deal in the U.K. that will put live NBA games on ESPN in the U.K. and Ireland for the rest of the '12-13 season. ESPN has had NBA rights for the past three years. Until now, both sides had not reached an agreement for this season. Sources say the NBA is ...
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Champions League Ratings Shy Of Record
German pay-TV channel Sky has failed to set another season-ratings record with its broadcast of Tuesday's Champions League matches, according to Manuel Weis of QUOTEN METER. During the first half, "a total of 610,000 viewers tuned in to Sky's Champions League simulcast on Tuesday, which is about 400 ...
