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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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Eurosport Scores Chinese Football Rights
Eurosport has secured the exclusive pan-European TV and Internet rights for the Chinese Super League. The deal includes the last three matchdays of the current season and will continue through the '13 and '14 season. Eurosport also has the sub-licensing rights of the competition in its 59 territorie ...
GolTV To Launch Superclassico TV Series
Broadcaster GolTV will produce and broadcast a new series to capture the drama surrounding the upcoming Argentinian Superclasico between River Plate and Boca Junior. Titled Los Caminos de una Pasión (Two Teams, One Passion), the series is GolTV’s first documentary-style special to profi ...
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NRL Big On Thursday Night Games
The '13 National Rugby League season will kick off with Thursday night games being played in the "first four rounds of the competition" as part of the new broadcasting deal with Channel Nine, according to the AAP. The NRL revealed the new scheduling arrangements following a meeting of club CEOs in S ...
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UEFA has awarded the '12–15 UEFA Champions League media rights in Moldova to broadcaster PRIME. The commercial broadcaster will transmit, via its channel Canal3, one live match followed by a highlights program each matchnight. The UEFA Champions League semifinals and the final will be broadcas ...
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Simon Green To Head New BT Channel
BT has appointed boxing channel Boxnation CEO Simon Green "to run its new sports channel," according to Mark Sweney of the London GUARDIAN. Green has been hired as the head of the new BT Sport pay-TV channel and "will be responsible for output," including the £738M ($1.2B) of Premier League ri ...
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FIFA Hesitating On WC 3D Broadcasts
FIFA is hesitating at the idea of showing 2014 World Cup games in 3D, according to the AFP. Although football's governing body showed 25 matches from the 2010 South Africa World Cup in 3D, the "significantly higher" production costs for the Brazil edition are a major turn-off. FIFA TV Division Dir N ...
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World Cup Qualifying Ratings For Europe
German public broadcaster ARD "obtained above-average ratings for its coverage of Tuesday's World Cup qualification game between Germany and Sweden, according to Jan Schlüter of QUOTENMETER.de. A total of 13.18 million people watched the "chaotic game in which Germany gave up a 4-0 lead in the ...
CCTV-IMG Sign 10-Year Deal
CCTV-IMG, a joint venture between China state TV network CCTV and IMG Worldwide, has entered into a 10-year partnership with the Chinese Super League, the country's top football league. This includes developing the CSL, helping improve management of Chinese football clubs, advising on development of ...
NRL Clubs Continue Waiting For Bonus
National Rugby League club CEOs "are expected to seek answers" from the game's hierarchy in Sydney Thursday after it emerged clubs "may not receive a promised bonus of A$500,000 ($513,830) by the end of the month," according to Brent Read of THE AUSTRALIAN. The potential withholding is caused by "de ...
TF1 Awarded Rugby World Cup Rights
French broadcaster TF1 "has agreed to a deal" with Rugby World Cup Ltd. and its marketing agency IMG, for the rights to the 2015 World Cup in France, according to Etienne Moatti of L'EQUIPE. Initially, the sides were looking to make a deal for both the England 2015 and Japan 2019 World Cups, but "no ...
