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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 Deutschland With Record Ratings
German pay-TV network Sky Deutschland has "attracted a record audience to its Tuesday coverage of the UEFA Champions League," according to Sidney Schering of QUOTENMETER.de. Sky's broadcast of Tuesday's Champions League games was watched by a record 920,000 viewers, or a 3.2% market share. In the ma ...
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Paralympics Fail To Lift Channel 4
New research into who actually tuned in to the London Paralympics finds the Games "achieved no discernible lift" in Channel 4's core 16- to 34-year-old demographic, according to Arif Durrani of MEDIA WEEK. The findings are from media insights specialist Ebiquity, whose latest study "quantifies the T ...
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DR, TV2 Acquire Olympic Media Rights
Sportfive announced Thursday that media rights in Denmark for the 2014 Sochi Games and the 2016 Rio Games have been awarded to DR and TV2 Denmark A/S (TV2). Both broadcasters are long-standing partners of the IOC and have covered action from the Olympic Games for decades. As in previous years, they ...
ARD's Commercial Price List
ARD Werbung Sales & Services (AS&S), the marketing arm of German public broadcaster ARD, "revealed the price list for TV commercials during the '12-13 winter sport season," according to HORIZONT.net. AS&S offers in addition to traditional spots in commercial blocks during winter sp ...
IMG-Reliance, TEN Sports Sign Deal
All India Football Federation (AIFF) commercial partner IMG-Reliance has agreed to a three-year deal with TEN Sports to broadcast I-League and Federation Cup competitions, according to Sudhir Tripathi of the TNN. Ten Sports will receive broadcast rights on multiple platforms, including TV, IPT ...
Channel 4 To Bid On Rio Paralympics
Channel 4 CEO David Abraham is preparing a bid for the TV rights to the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Paralympics, but "could be derailed by a BBC plan to snatch back the rights," according to Mark Sweney of the London GUARDIAN. If Channel 4 can win the bid for the U.K. TV rights to the event, Abraham said th ...
ESPN To Broadcast KHL In U.S.
The Kontinental Hockey League has "struck a deal" with ESPN to broadcast matches from the Russian-based league in the U.S., according to RIA NOVOSTI. The KHL covers six countries and is "widely regarded as the second-best hockey league" in the world after the NHL. In a statement, the league said the ...
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Netball Live On TV In South Africa
Netball South Africa has "announced a five-year broadcast partnership with SuperSport" to broadcast live netball beginning next year," according to Sapa of the SOWETAN. The broadcaster, which covered eight matches of the int'l Diamond Challenge series in August, announced Monday that it "would focus ...
Ryder Cup Draws 2.2 Million Sky Viewers
Europe's "remarkable comeback" to win the Ryder Cup golf tournament brought a peak audience of more than 2 million to Sky Sports 1 in the U.K. Sunday night, according to Jason Deans of the London GUARDIAN. Europe's comeback attracted a five-minute peak of 2.235 million viewers. Overall, Sky Sports 1 ...
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AFL Grand Final Tops NRL In Ratings
Nine's rugby league grand final was viewed by an average of 3.87 million people in Australia Sunday, peaking at 4.65 million, according to Lara Sinclair of THE AUSTRALIAN. The result was beaten by Saturday's Australian Football League grand final on Seven, "which was watched by an average" of 4.05 m ...
