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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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ITV Ad Revenue Hit By London Games
ITV has "reported a 6% year-on-year fall in TV ad revenues in the third quarter of '12 as advertisers held back spend while viewers tuned into the BBC's London Olympics coverage," according to Mark Sweney of the London GUARDIAN. The commercial broadcaster "took a battering during the three months to ...
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EPL TV Rights On Pace To Break Record
Premier League football clubs are "in line for a huge hike in TV income from next season," according to Owen Gibson of the London GUARDIAN. Revenue from domestic and global TV rights deals are expected to top £5B ($7.9B) by the time the final overseas contracts are tied up next month. On top o ...
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All Blacks Vs. Canada Will Be Broadcast
The Maori All Blacks vs. Canada rugby match, which is being played at Oxford University, will screen live on Sky Sport 1 on Nov. 24 from 8:20am (NZT), while Maori Television will replay the game at 6pm, and again on the following day at 10:30pm on the Te Reo channel. The Maori All Blacks first match ...
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DEL TV Ratings Fall Below Expectations
Austrian-based TV channel ServusTV has been the German Hockey League's (DEL) broadcast home since the start of the season, "but recent ratings are lacking behind expectations," according to Alexander Krei of DWDL.de. Viewing numbers of DEL games on ServusTV have been between 20,000-30,000, "numbers ...
Record Bundesliga Ratings In Germany
German pay-TV channel Sky "set yet another season-ratings record with its simulcast of Saturday's Bundesliga games," according to Alexander Krei of DWDL.de. A total of 1.33 million viewers tuned in to watch the league's five games on Saturday afternoon. In the target demographic 14-49, this number t ...
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Tottenham Plans Web TV Channel
EPL club Tottenham Hotspur is “embarking on its biggest ever push for its web TV channel to offer additional content to its growing overseas fan base who cannot get to matches,” according to Sebastian Joseph of MARKETING WEEK. The “subscription-based Spurs TV Online channel will ho ...
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ZDF Acquires Canoe Championship Rights
German public broadcaster ZDF acquired the broadcasting rights for the 2013 Int'l Canoe Federation Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg, Germany. ICF and ZDF have also revealed the dates of the event. The world championships for Germany's most-successful Olympic summer sport will take place ...
Heavyweight Bout Gets 'Dream' Ratings
German private-TV channel RTL obtained "dream ratings" with its broadcast of the heavyweight boxing bout between Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko and Poland's Mariusz Wach," according to Daniel Sallhoff of QUOTENMETER.de. RTL's almost two-hour broadcast attracted an average of 11.77 million viewers afte ...
Cricket Most-Watched Sport In Australia
Oztam’s TV viewership and sport data has revealed that cricket is the most-watched sport on TV in Australia. Over 9.6 million people tuned into int'l cricket for five or more minutes and astonishingly more than 18.4 million people watched at least some int'l cricket on TV nationally. The viewe ...
PERFORM Extends Serie A Deal
Digital sports media group PERFORM has confirmed a three-year deal with Serie A to "distribute the official Serie A TIM channel across digital platforms," according to STOCKMARKETWIRE.com. The deal covers the distribution of official Serie A match content through ePlayer, PERFORM's market-leading sp ...
