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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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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 ...
TV Show Reveals Liverpool's Struggles
EPL club Liverpool's "transfer window bungling is exposed in the first episode of a fly-on-the-wall TV series about the club," according to Nick Harris of the London DAILY MAIL. In the six-part documentary, Manager Brendan Rodgers insists, "it would 'take something incredible' for Andy Carroll to le ...
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Ratings Record For Peacock's 100m Gold
Unofficial overnight figures revealed that a "record Paralympics athletic audience of 6.3 million people tuned in to Channel 4" to watch Team GB's Jonnie Peacock snatch the T44 100m crown from Oscar Pistorius" Thursday night, according to Arif Durrani of BRAND REPUBLIC. The five minute peak audience ...
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World Cup Qualifier Draws Strong Audience
The 2014 World Cup qualification match between Germany and the Faroe Islands "obtained Friday's top rating with an average of 7.87 million viewers," according to Timo Niemeier of QUOTENMETER.de. Germany's 3-0 victory received a "strong" 28.2% market share. ZDF's coverage also obtained "fantastic" ra ...
BBC To Broadcast American Football
The NFL's Monday Night Football for the '12 season will be broadcast on the BBC, according to the BBC. The coverage will start on Monday with the Cincinnati Bengals playing the Baltimore Ravens and the San Diego Chargers facing the Oakland Raiders. The games "will be live on the BBC Red Button and B ...
BT TV Ad Most Memorable Of Olympics
Research by Nielsen revealed that BT's "hola" spot, created by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, "was judged the most-memorable TV ad from an Olympic sponsor" in England, according to Jeremy Lee of CAMPAIGN LIVE. The ad, which featured a group of Spanish students descending on flatmates that feature in the ...
