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BBC Adds Cricket Radio Rights For England's Ashes Tour To Portfolio05 / 17 / 13The BBC "has added the rights for the upcoming England Ashes tour to Australia to its extensive portfolio of cricket coverage on Radio 5 Live's Test Match Special," according to Mark Sweney of the London GUARDIAN. The BBC "has struck an exclusive deal to provide ball-by-ball radio coverage of the As... Tags: Media, United Kingdom |
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BeIN Sport Payday Stirs Up Market
When al-Jazeera's new U.S.-based network beIN Sport acquired the rights to the U.S. men's national football team World Cup Qualifier away matches, it "messed up the market for everyone," according to a source cited by Jack Bell of the N.Y. TIMES. The source said that beIN "paid double the $18M fee ...
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McLaren Boss: Pay-TV 'Good For F1'
F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone's switching of F1 to pay-per-view this year with the Sky/BBC tie-up "should be viewed as a positive, despite the overall audience figures for some races going down," according to Jonathan Noble of AUTO SPORT. One year from the announcement that "left many spectators outraged ...
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Broadcaster Brantz Talks Paralympics
With coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games begining on Thursday, THE AUSTRALIAN's Amanda Meade sat down with ABC Broadcaster Stephanie Brantz to discuss the event. Below are some highlights of the interview. Q: What does the Paralympics mean to you? Brantz: The theme for the Australi ...
Channel Ten Needs Sports Boost
Channel Ten faces pressure "to get a big sporting code over the line in the next year" or face seeing its share of the $2.9B TV ad market and audiences remain static, according to Julian Lee of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. Nine and Fox Sport's $1B bid for the TV rights to the rugby league "has ratchet ...
EBU And Fila Extend Deal
The European Broadcasting Union and the wrestling governing body FILA have signed a media rights deal covering all FILA World and European Wrestling Championships from '13-16. The new contract covers media rights in Europe for seven championships: four European and three World Championships -- there ...
A Separate Game Feed For Asian Markets
German Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen plans to produce a separate game feed for Asian TV channels "to increase the club's marketing potential in that region," according to Mathias Peer of the HANDELSBLATT. Bayer Leverkusen sees Asia as its "most important market for growth." Leverkusen Managing Di ...
Channel 4 Hopes For Paralympic Gold
Channel 4's recent "Meet the Superhumans" promotional campaign for its wall-to-wall Paralympics coverage in the U.K. "won widespread praise," according to Owen Gibson of the London GUARDIAN. To a booming Public Enemy soundtrack, it demonstrated the elements many hope the broadcaster would bring to i ...
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Pietersen Could Be Banned From TV Gig
Cricketer Kevin Pietersen’s "miserable summer took another turn for the worse" on Friday when it emerged that his attempt to take up a commentator’s role at the World Twenty20 next month could be vetoed by the Int'l Cricket Council, according to Derek Pringle of the London TELEGRAPH. ESP ...
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Volleyball League Signs New Media Deal
The German Volleyball League (DVL) signed a new three-year, media-rights deal with GIP (Gesellschaft für Internetportale mbH) regarding production and marketing of men's and women's Bundesliga games. Starting in October, volleyball fans will be able to regularly watch live broadcasts online at ...
Nine Slams Seven Over NRL Deal
Australia's Nine network has hit back at claims from Seven network CEO Don Voelte that its billion-dollar National Rugby League deal is "too costly and will harm its ability to invest in new programming," according to Darren Davidson of THE AUSTRALIAN. Nine exec David Hurley said, “It’s ...
