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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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Sky Reports Strong Bundesliga Ratings
German pay-TV channel Sky "once again obtained strong ratings for its Bundesliga broadcast," according to Manuel Weis of QUOTEN METER. An average of 1.12 million viewers tuned in to Sky's simulcast of Wednesday's games. The number equaled a market share of 3.6%. In the target demographic 14-49, Sky ...
London Paralympics Sets TV Records
The London 2012 Paralympic Games was a TV ratings winner, as it scored record audiences for the U.K.'s Channel 4, and excluding the host market, it was watched by an int'l audience of 3.4 billion people. The cumulative global audience saw a 37% increase from the Beijing Paralympics in '08. In total, ...
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TV The Most-Important Medium
TV is the most-important medium for 82.4% of German sports fans, although 26.1% already simultaneously use the Internet to get their sports news and to communicate with like-minded people. Those are the findings of a study regarding the media usage of German sports fans by PR firm Edelman and the In ...
Sky, ESPN Seek NBA U.K. TV Rights
The NBA is "locked in talks with Sky Sports and ESPN" over U.K. TV rights, according to Matt Lawless of the London DAILY MAIL. ESPN held the rights last season, but the deal expired ahead of this season, resulting in a "block out of basketball on British screens." NBA Commissioner David Stern addres ...
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Nürburgring Keeps F1 Hopes Alive
Liquidators revealed that "an F1 Grand Prix at the financially struggling Nürburgring racetrack is back in the realm of possibilities after private racetrack operator NAG and the bankrupt, state-owned Nürburgring GmbH agreed to a compromise," according to the SID. Liquidator Thomas Schmidt ...
Globo, Fox Look To Trade Rights
Brazilian broadcaster Globo confirmed that it is negotiating with Fox Sports a "trade in the rights that both possess," according to Franceschini, Castro and Konchinski of UOL. If the negotiations go well, Sportv will go back to airing the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Sul-Americana, while Fox will ...
CONCACAF, Traffic Sports Partner Up
CONCACAF has accepted a bid from São Paulo-based Traffic Sports for the commercial partnership rights to the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup and the '13-14 and '14-15 CONCACAF Champions League tournaments. Under terms of the deal, Traffic Sports acquires the right to package and market these tournamen ...
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Super Rugby The Big Loser Of TV Report
As if the Australian Rugby Union did not have "enough problems on its hands with disgruntled five-eighth Quade Cooper, now comes a report that shows viewers are turning off the game in droves," according to Stuart Honeysett of THE AUSTRALIAN. Global sports research agency Repucom "has just finished ...
F1 Boss Sees U.S. Growth In NBC Deal
F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone has lined up the series' "biggest TV partner to date in NBC, encouraged team sponsors to use drivers to promote the brand Stateside and will turn to its deep-pocketed celebrity fanbase to rev up interest in the sport,” according to Marc Graser of DAILY VARIETY. Ecclest ...
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F1 nets 10 Million German TV Viewers
German free-to-air TV channel RTL has broken the 10 million viewer mark "for the first time this season" with its broadcast of Sunday's F1 Grand Prix of Brazil," according to Manuel Weis of QUOTEN METER. Starting at 5pm CET, the Cologne-based channel recorded 10.62 million viewers, which equaled a m ...
