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Billionaire Carlos Slim's Foray Into Mexican Football First Division Rattles TV Rivals05 / 21 / 13Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's latest acquisitive foray "is meeting resistance" after touching a national passion: football, according to the AP. Slim recently bought part of two of Mexico's first division football teams, setting up another showdown with TV giants Televisa and TV A... Tags: Media, North America |
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Kabel Eins Schedules First BBL Games
Munich-base free-to-air TV channel kabel eins has "scheduled the first two games of its Beko Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) coverage," according to Manuel Weis of QUOTENMETER.de. The BBL "recently announced that kabel eins will join Sport1 as the league's TV partner and show up to 10 games" during the ...
FFF Wins Lawsuit With Sportfive
The French Football Federation "can exhale" after a judge ruled in its favor in a record €50M ($65.7M) lawsuit filed against them by marketing agency Sportfive, according to Etienne Moatti of L'EQUIPE. Sportfive, which was the former marketing agency of the FFF, believed it should be awarded &e ...
AFL Semifinal Is Highest Rated Of Season
Saturday night's first semifinal between Collingwood and West Coast "was the highest-rating television match" of the Australian Football League season, and it was rated higher than every match of the '11 season, except last year's grand final, according to Greg Denham of THE AUSTRALIAN. The game at ...
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IMG has acquired a minority equity stake in Sports New Media. SNM is based in London and manages, moderates and monetizes social media for sporting clients, athletes, associations and brands. The company owns and operates sports-oriented websites such as GiveMeFootball ( IMG ). ... The Int'l Cricket ...
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No Bounce For British Newspapers
Newspaper execs "are likely to be disappointed" by the absence of a significant Olympic bounce, according to John Reynolds of MEDIA WEEK. The Daily Telegraph and The Times were the two "standout performers across the quality sector," nudging up their July circulations. The Daily Telegraph was up 0.4 ...
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BT Rises As Rugby Deal Creates Demand
BT Vision, which signed a deal to broadcast Premiership rugby this week, saw its stock surge "to the highest price in four years" after int'l financial group Credit Suisse said that BT will benefit from "accelerating broadband demand," according to Jonathan Browning of BLOOMBERG. BT is adding sports ...
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Q&A With Sky Deutschland Chief
German pay-TV provider Sky Deutschland has been producing positive headlines with strong results during the second quarter of '12, high ratings and more than three million subscribers. Sky Deutschland Chief Officer Sports, Advertising Sales & Internet Carsten Schmidt took time to talk to SBD Glo ...
Aussie Gov't Stalls Crucial TV Vote
The Australian federal government has "stalled a crucial vote on laws" to decide the way major sports are shown live on TV amid warnings the reforms had become a "dog's breakfast" that would not work, according to David Crowe of THE AUSTRALIAN. In the face of confusion over how it could enforce a pl ...
ICC Set To Break Broadcast Record
When the 2012 Twenty20 cricket tournament begins Tuesday in Sri Lanka, ESPN STAR Sports will broadcast the event to a record 226 territories, the largest ICC broadcast to date. The event, to be played across four venues in Sri Lanka, will reach an audience of more than 1.5 billion, a record for any ...
Seven Group Wants To Acquire CMH
The competition regulator "has withheld its decision" on whether to allow Kerry Stoke’s Seven Group to acquire the shares in Consolidated Media Holdings that it currently does not own, according to Colin Kruger of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. The decision comes "over concerns such a move would r ...
