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Champions Manchester United Finish Atop Of EPL's TV Money Share List05 / 22 / 13ManU emerged as the EPL's top earner when it comes to TV revenue, according to Tom Sharp of the LONDON TIMES. The champion's total income from TV for the '12-13 campaign was £60.8M ($92.2M), but even the division’s bottom club "will earn more than that next season under the terms of the ... Tags: Media, United Kingdom |
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MP & Silva, a leading int'l media rights agency, has extended its partnership with Major League Soccer until '14. The deal includes the exclusive rights distribution outside North America to all MLS games, tournaments and events, including MLS regular season, MLS Cup Playoffs and MLS C ...
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High Ratings For London Victory Parade
A "combined peak audience" of more than 4 million viewers watched the London Games victory parade on BBC1 and Channel 4 on Monday afternoon, according to John Plunkett of the London GUARDIAN. The parade had "a five-minute peak" of 2 million viewers on Channel 4 at 4:25pm London time, when more than ...
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ESPN Announces Copa Do Brasil Rights
ESPN has taken the media rights to the first Copa do Brasil U20 tournament, recently established by the the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) and SportPromotion, the sports broadcaster will announce Wednesday. The inaugural edition, a 32-team knockout competition, will take place from Oct. 2-De ...
Univision Gets European Football Rights
Univision Deportes will become the U.S. Hispanic home of the German national team and the DFB Cup, the French national team and the French Cup, and France’s Ligue 1. The multi-year deals are exclusive in Spanish across multiple media platforms. The agreements will grant Univision Deportes medi ...
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BSkyB To Broadcast Ryder Cup
BSkyB has partnered with James Cameron's 3D production firm Cameron Pace Group to "offer live 3D coverage" of the Ryder Cup on the Sky 3D channel later this month, according to Georg Szalai of the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. The golf competition begins on Sept. 28 at the Medinah Country Club in Illinois. Te ...
Closing Ceremony Draws 6M TV Viewers
The Paralympics Closing Ceremony averaged nearly 6 million viewers, helping to give Channel 4 "a bigger share of the audience than either BBC1 or ITV1" on Sunday, according to John Plunkett of the London GUARDIAN. Sunday night's spectacular end to the London Games, which featured Coldplay and Rihann ...
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Bundesliga See Uptick In Online Traffic
The start of the Bundesliga season has "boosted visit numbers of big German sports and football websites in August," according to David Hein of HORIZONT.net. The five biggest winners in August included four football websites. The biggest jump was made by football radio 90elf. The number of visits at ...
Telemundo Scores Leon Rights
Comcast-owned Spanish language network Telemundo followed through on a promise to remain a player for Mexican league soccer on Friday, landing multi-platform U.S. rights to Club Leon, a historically popular team that was promoted to the first division for ‘12-13. The acquisition comes six week ...
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Bundesliga Signs Deal With North Korea
North Korean TV channel KCTV "will reportedly broadcast German Bundesliga games, starting in mid-September," according to Stefan Merx of the WALL STREET JOURNAL DEUTSCHLAND. DFL Sports Enterprises CEO Jörg Daubitzer, who is in charge of the Bundesliga's foreign marketing, "confirmed the deal." ...
ICC Signs Media Deals For Sri Lanka '12
The Int'l Cricket Council has signed Sports News Television (SNTV), Perform and Reuters as distributors for the ICC World Cricket Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012 event. These deals guarantee news broadcasters around the world access to news highlights from matches, press conferences, player interviews and e ...
