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TVB Wins Hong Kong Broadcasting Rights For 2014 Brazil World Cup05 / 23 / 13TVB "has won the Hong Kong broadcasting rights for the 2014 World Cup," according to Benjamin Li of CAMPAIGN ASIA-PACIFIC. The deal "covers TVB's free-to-air TV stations, radio, internet and mobile platforms." TVB Deputy Controller S.T. Tso said that "the agreement with FIFA does not allow... |
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Freexmedia Extends Partnership With DEL
Hamburg-based online marketing company Freexmedia "agreed to continue its marketing" of the German Hockey League's (DEL) official website www.del.org, according to HORIZONT.net. The company agreed to the deal with website operator and streaming service Laola1, which is a subsidiary of Sportsman Medi ...
BBC: More Wimbledon Night Matches
The BBC, which has provided coverage of Wimbledon since '27, "wants more nighttime tennis and less grunting during matches," according to Danielle Rossingh of BLOOMBERG. Matches at this year’s Wimbledon championships finished as late as 11pm with the retractable roof over Centre Court shu ...
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MLB Launches Mobile Game
Social gaming company CyberX Inc., which is a wholly owned subsidiary of CyberAgent, Inc. headquartered in Tokyo, announced the launch of a Major League Baseball-focused iOS mobile game, "MLB Stars Collection." Categorized as a "player battle game," users set out to build the most successful team by ...
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Bundesliga Heading For Free TV In Italy
The German Football League's (DFL) commercial arm, DFL Sports Enterprise, "entered a new way of foreign marketing for Bundesliga media rights," according to Petra Schwegler of W&V. The Bundesliga's top games "will be available live and free of charge on online news and sports portals in Ita ...
NRL Comfortable With Debt-Ridden Nine
The National Rugby League remains confident that its A$1.02B ($1.06B) broadcast rights deal will be honored "regardless of the outcome of talks between the Nine Network and its creditors," according to Stuart Honeysett of THE AUSTRALIAN. Nine had warned its creditors that its "lucrative" sports cont ...
ESPN Gets NextGen Series Rights
ESPN has acquired the multimedia rights to football's NextGen Series, a European competition of football featuring players from 24 top European clubs. The contract is valid from the '12-13 season until the end of the '15-16 season. ESPN will have the exclusive rights to the event in the U.S., Brazil ...
Singtel Gets Singapore UEFA Rights
Media rights for the '12-15 UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League in Singapore have been awarded to Singtel. The pay-TV operator will broadcast two live Champions League fixtures each matchnight on its channels Mio Sports 1 and Mio Sports 2, as well as a highlights program to be shown at prim ...
HBL Extends Rights Deal With Sport1
The German Handball Bundesliga (HBL) "extended its TV contract with private-TV channel Sport1 through the '16-17 season," according to the DPA. Sport1 "will continue to be Germany's handball channel No.1." The Munich-based TV channel and the HBL extended their contract, "which expires in '13," for a ...
Canal+ Makes Offer For F1 Rights
Pay-TV broadcaster Canal+ has "made an offer" to take the F1 TV rights in France from TF1, according to Stéphane Colineau of LE JOURNAL DU DIMANCHE. After the UEFA Champions League, Ligue 1 and the Top14, another "major sporting competition could fall in the hands of a pay-TV channel." The "s ...
